At seven o'clock in the morning, Ward No. 095 on the 13th floor of the inpatient department of Landao City First People's Hospital.
This is an ordinary ward with four people. On the bed at the end of the ward, there is a middle-aged woman who is thin and has a painful face lying on the bed. Sitting next to the bed is a stocky man in his twenties with slightly dark skin.
Young man, this young man's eyes were reddish and his expression was gloomy. He was whispering something to a middle-aged woman.
The middle-aged woman is He Xiaoshou's mother Liu Lanying, and the young man is He Xiaoshou's brother He Gang.
He Gang has a straightforward personality and was not born to go to school. He lost interest in school after graduating from elementary school, so he and his parents concentrated on farming at home, taking care of the few acres of fields. During the off-season, he worked around with a small engineering team in the village to earn some pocket money.
Money. Because his father is addicted to gambling, the family basically has no savings, so that He Gang has not even married a wife, and he is considered an older youth in the countryside. In the past two years, He Gang followed a relative to a nearby place
I was working in a big city and my income was pretty good. Yesterday I heard that my mother was sick and hospitalized and my father had disappeared to avoid debts. He Gang asked for leave from his boss and rushed back as soon as possible to shoulder the responsibility of taking care of his mother.
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After Liu Lanying gave birth to her daughter He Xiaoshou, her health has not been very good. Coupled with her husband's gambling incident, which made her anxious and angry, her health deteriorated even more. If the pair of children were not very filial, she might have died early.
I was pissed off.
Yesterday evening, when Liu Lanying and her husband He Hua were having dinner at home, several tall and tough men came to the door and said that He Hua owed them 30,000 yuan. Only then did Liu Lanying know that her husband was gambling behind her back again.
And this time the bet was so big... He Hua then took the opportunity to go to the toilet and escaped over the wall, leaving Liu Lanju alone at home to deal with his creditors. When Liu Lanying found out, she fainted with anger.
Fortunately, neighbors and relatives sent him to a nearby city hospital overnight. It has been a whole night now. Fortunately, the rescue was timely and nothing serious happened.
That night, Liu Lanying's eldest sister took care of her in the hospital until midnight. Liu Lanying's son He Gang rushed to the hospital in the middle of the night, and the eldest sister left a few hundred yuan and went home.
Liu Lanying has been living in depression and pain for several years because of her husband's affairs, and her body is very weak. After she was admitted to the hospital, the doctor gave her a very comprehensive physical examination from head to toe. It was discovered that there was a brain inside her skull.
The tumor is malignant.
Considering the patient's condition, the doctor did not tell Liu Lanying herself about the incident for the time being. Even He Gang, who had just arrived, did not know that his mother was suffering from such a serious illness.
"Mom, eat something. You are very weak, and you need to add some nutritious food now. Only in this way can your body get better quickly." After talking to his mother for a while, He Gang picked up the freshly bought items on the bedside table.
He took a bowl of rice porridge and persuaded softly.
"Gangzi, Mom has a headache and feels uncomfortable in her stomach. She really can't eat!" Liu Lanying said weakly. She glanced at the door of the ward from time to time and sighed: "It's been all night. Your father, who is so heartless, actually
If you don't come to the hospital to see me... Gangzi, you won't be able to work well outside, and your sister Xiaoshou also said she would rush back today... Gangzi, if you see your dad, say something to him for me!"
He Gang said: "I know, Mom! You can have some food first..."
"I can not eat……"
At this moment, a pretty little nurse walked into the ward and said to He Gang: "Are you Liu Lanying's family member? Doctor Li asked you to go to his office and tell you something."
"Yeah, I got it." He Gang put the rice porridge on the bedside table, helped his mother sit up, and said, "Mom, I'm going to see what's going on. You can eat it slowly first."
"Go ahead."
He Gang followed the nurse to Dr. Li's office and sat down opposite Dr. Li's desk. He didn't know what Dr. Li asked him to do, and he felt vaguely that something bad was going to happen.
"Are you Liu Lanying's family member?" Dr. Li asked, looking through a medical record in his hand.
"Well, I'm her son." He Gang nodded, feeling a little uneasy, and asked cautiously: "Doctor Li, what's the matter?"
Doctor Li said solemnly: "Your mother's illness is not optimistic..."
He Gang's heart skipped a beat and he waited for Dr. Li to continue.
Dr. Li sighed: "After our diagnosis, your mother is suffering from a brain tumor. If it is benign, the problem is not big, but unfortunately, your mother is suffering from a malignant brain tumor... I asked you to come here just because I want to
Let me tell you so that you can be mentally prepared... The patient's mental endurance is poor, so don't tell her, otherwise..."
After He Gang heard the words "malignant brain tumor", his mind began to buzz with confusion. He didn't listen to what Dr. Li said next, until Dr. Li finished speaking.
Then he said "Oh", walked out of the office in despair, and returned to the ward where his mother lived.
He Gang was not a fool. He naturally knew what malignant tumors meant. Although the distance from Dr. Li's office to his mother's ward was only a few dozen meters, he walked for a long time. He felt as if the world was falling and the world was ending.
, I felt extremely painful and sad. I didn’t know how to face my mother or talk to her after I returned to the ward.
He Gang stopped one step at a time and finally moved to the ward where his mother lived. When he saw his mother Liu Lanying again and met her questioning eyes, the words "malignant tumor" kept echoing in his mind, and the tip of his nose
Feeling sour, tears couldn't stop pouring out of my eyes.
"Gangzi, what's wrong with you? Why are you crying?"
Liu Lanying was lying on the bed, holding the bowl of rice porridge in her hand. She had just barely taken a few sips when she saw her son returning to the ward with red eyes, standing in front of the patient and watching her cry silently.
"Mom..." He Gang pursed his lips and gave a trembling cry. He suppressed the grief in his heart, walked forward, prepared to take the rice porridge bowl from his mother's hand, and said: "Mom, let me feed you...
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Although Liu Lanying had no education, when she saw her son's appearance and thought of the little nurse who just called her son to go to Dr. Li, she vaguely understood something in her heart. She tightened her hands holding the rice porridge bowl and said in a trembling voice: "Just now
Son, what did Dr. Li say to you?"
"No...it's nothing..." Gangzi has been sensible since she was a child and has never said panic in front of her parents, but Dr. Li just told her not to talk to her mother about her true condition, otherwise it will have a huge mental impact on the patient, so
When Gangzi heard his mother's question, he hesitated and refused to say anything, but his expression betrayed him.
Liu Lanying knew her son very well. Seeing the pained and sad expression on his face and the trace of struggle in his eyes, she guessed that Dr. Li must be talking to him about her illness, and her heart gradually sank.