Chapter three hundred and seventy-eight acute urinary retention
"Boss Mu!"
On the other side of the phone, Xia Yongxing was startled. There seemed to be movement over there.
"It's probably due to heavy rain. Some houses have collapsed. Let's not talk about it for now. I'll go over and take a look at the situation."
"Boss Mu, you must be careful."
Xia Yongxing only felt that he was living a frightened day today. If he had known it, he would have set off with Mu Xuehui. With Mu Xuehui by his side, he would have known what was going on.
Originally, Xia Yongxing thought that it would only take three hours to get to Dongcheng County, and he would definitely meet up for lunch. Who would have thought that we would be separated forever... No, we would not be able to meet each other now?
Xia Yongxing left a little earlier than Mu Xuehui and arrived at Dongcheng County ahead of time. But Mu Xuehui was halfway there and couldn't get through the phone. When he got through, the ground was shaking. If it weren't for his good health, Xia Yongxing would have thought he would be beaten.
Scared and sick all over.
"Don't worry, I'm fine here. I definitely won't be able to survive tonight. Just stay here for one night and leave tomorrow after the rain stops."
As he spoke, Mu Xuehui hung up the phone, and several people walked towards the place where the collapsed house was holding umbrellas.
The place where the house collapsed is not far from Ma Xiaogang's home, in the same alley, at the very edge of the alley.
In Majiawan, most of the people in the village have the surname Ma, and all the people in the village are more or less related to each other.
At this time, there were very few bungalows in the village, and there were only two or three houses in the whole village. Most of them were mud houses, and the walls of the houses were made of mud.
Wheat straw and weeds are mixed into the loess to prevent loosening, which means that the foundation of the main house can have two or three layers of blue bricks.
Some houses have been standing for a long time and can no longer bear a heavy rain like this.
At this time, basically as long as it rains heavily, some houses in many rural areas will leak. Although the number of collapses is less, it is not uncommon.
Considering that the collapse of the house over there might injure people, Fang Le even carried a medical kit on his back.
When a group of people approached, there were already many people surrounding them, all helping. A sixty-year-old man had just been carried out.
Fang Le strode forward.
"Everyone, please give way. This is a doctor from Xijing Hospital in our province."
Ma Xiaogang shouted in time, and the crowd moved out of the way.
"Is there anyone else in the house?"
Fang Le asked in passing while examining the old man.
"There is no one left. My fifth uncle is the only one in the house, and there is no one to take care of it. Otherwise, the house would not have collapsed."
The speaker was Ma Xiaogang.
"Does the old man have no children?"
Ren Shaojun asked.
"Having a son was originally the pride of our village, but now it has become a joke in our village. Basically no one in the village wants to mention it."
Ma Xiaogang said.
"What's going on?" "My fifth uncle's son was smart when he was a child. His grades were always among the best when he was in school. He was admitted to Beijing University fifteen years ago. But since he went to university, he hasn't seen anyone in the past fifteen years.
No one knows whether he is alive or dead."
Ma Xiaogang lamented: "Last year, I went to work in the deep sea. When I met someone, they pretended not to know me. They were wearing suits and leather shoes. They looked like they were rich and they didn't recognize me, a poor neighbor."
"It's fine if you don't recognize me as a poor neighbor, but my father doesn't recognize me either."
"It is said that for every person who slaughters dogs for justice, there are also many scholars who are unfaithful."
Someone on the side hummed: "Now there are few people in our village who are willing to let their children go to college. Why don't they go to Mao University? When they grow up, they go out to work to make money and subsidize the family."
"Okay, don't say anything anymore."
Fang Le could clearly see tears overflowing from the corners of the old man's eyes.
"Brother Ma, should I carry him to your house first?"
Fang Le briefly examined the old man and found that his leg was fractured and there were no other external injuries. However, the old man had other conditions. Fang Le judged that it was acute urinary retention.
Clinically, the inability to discharge urine in the bladder is called urinary retention. Acute urinary retention is a very serious abnormal urination condition. This situation requires immediate catheterization or urination treatment, otherwise it can easily lead to reflex inhibition of cardiopulmonary function.
, leading to cardiovascular accidents in patients.
After understanding the old man's situation and listening to what Ma Xiaogang said, Fang Le felt a little lucky that the collapse of the old man's house actually saved the old man's life.
It is said that misfortunes and blessings depend on each other, and misfortunes sometimes are not necessarily completely bad things.
The old man should be in his early sixties. At this age, he can usually take care of himself. But once he gets sick, there is no one at home, and it is raining so heavily outside. No one really knows what the old man is doing at home.
The old man should have felt uncomfortable and uncomfortable during the day. It was raining outside and he couldn't go to the doctor, so he just endured it by himself. At this time, rural people were sick. If they couldn't bear it, few people would see a doctor. The situation was getting worse and worse.
Seriously, the elderly may not be able to go out anymore.
Being alone at home, the sky and the earth are not working properly. If the house hadn't collapsed, it wouldn't have attracted so many people's attention. It's even less likely that anyone would know that the old man suffered from acute urinary retention. The discomfort of this disease is secondary. If it can't be treated in time,
After urinating, it’s hard to say whether I can hold on until tomorrow morning.
"Come on, everyone, please lend a hand and carry Uncle Wu to my house first."
Ma Xiaogang greeted.
Ma Xiaogang's wife and children went to her parents' house, and her mother also went to her daughter's house. There happened to be no one at home these days, but today it became a temporary rescue station in Majiawan.
We just sent away a pregnant woman, and now we have another patient.
In July, it gets dark relatively late, but today is cloudy and it is already dark now. Unfortunately, it rained heavily today, there was lightning and thunder, and the entire Majiawan Village also had a power outage.
At this time, basically as long as there is heavy rain, lightning and thunder, it is often accompanied by power outages in rural areas.
Ma Xiaogang took out a few candles from home and lit them, and the room became brighter.
"Brother, you have worked really hard today."
As the "leader", Zhang Zhengtong spoke with concern.
"Director Zhang, what you are saying is that I am from this village and you are the guests. You have been busy all day today. Originally I just wanted to take a rest and drink tea, but now I have tormented you all day."
"Xiao Fang, how are you?"
Beside the Kang, Fang Le was still examining the old man, and Mu Xuehui was standing beside him.
"The fracture is easy to deal with. I can handle it. I also wore a splint and a bandage when I came out this time. It's mainly due to acute urinary retention."
Fang Le frowned: "This situation requires emergency catheterization, otherwise I won't be able to bear it at all. But this time I came out without a catheter. If I use medicine, there are not enough medicinal materials."
"The town hospital should have urinary catheters, right?"
Ren Shaojun said: "How about asking the driver to drive to the town hospital to pick it up."
"Brother, is the town hospital far?"
Ren Shaojun asked Ma Xiaogang.
"The quality of the hospital in our town is very poor. I don't know if it has a urinary catheter, but it's definitely not possible to drive there in such a heavy rain. It stopped halfway."
Ma Xiaogang said: "In this weather, we can only walk. It will take at least two hours to go back and forth."
"Two hours is not necessarily enough."
Fang Le said bitterly: "Forget about the county hospital. We have never been to the county town."
While he was talking, the old man on the kang had begun to twist, which showed that he was having a hard time holding it in.
It's just that the old man has been silent from beginning to end. Maybe because of his son, the old man has long been a little hopeless?
On the way here just now, Ma Xiaogang explained the situation again. The old man's wife died in childbirth and died after giving birth to his son. The old man had been raising his son by himself, pooping and peeing.
His son also strives for success. He has been the pride of the village in the past few years. When the old man walks in the village, his back is straight and he always has a smile on his face. He always praises his son for his greatness when he meets everyone.
Won a prize in any competition, ranked first in any class, or got admitted to Beijing University.
But only two years after his son entered college, the old man stopped smiling very much, didn't come back every year, and couldn't get through on the phone.
During the school day, the old man still held out hope that his son would go to school. However, in the past fifteen years, there was no news and he never came back. The son he had raised since he was a child was missing.
Yes, the old man always felt that something had happened to his son instead of denying him. This was his last act of stubbornness.
But the old man knew exactly what was going on.
A lifetime of pride has finally become a joke, and life is really meaningless.