I do n’t know why I always have sour eyes and sore noses in the hospital, probably everything I see is sympathetic, and maybe the sadness I feel will remind you of the old man in my family.
Text | Zhu Zige is a patient.
Hello everyone, I am Wang Zhuzi, the master of the Metropolis Hospital, I do n’t know if it ’s because I ’m not with my parents. All the old people I saw in the hospital can make me realize that “it ’s not easy”, but my parents do n’t like to express. It means "everything is fine", but what I see is not the case.news world ahmed
So, what does an elderly person look like in a hospital day?
This is a 52-year-old Zhang Guilan's one-day running account.
01
She lives in the bed by the window in the ward
At six o'clock in the morning, I was carrying my inpatient suitcase and a bucket of 24 hours of urine through half of Shanghai to the ward. The hospital's morning had already begun for 2 hours.
I said "Early" to each patient in the ward, and then I peeped out the yellow cloth curtain to see if the elder sister in the next bed sat up.
The picture shows the Internet addiction juvenile brother
The nurse came over and pulled the curtain open. A body thinner than me stretched out the skinny hands and feet from the large cotton sick suit and a head with a hat and mask that only showed eyes.
The nurse tapped her ear cavity every hour to take her temperature, and called her name aloud every time to confirm, "38 beds, Zhang Guilan." Is it you?
"Of course, who else?" I muttered impatiently. When he was awake and half asleep, he was most likely to be shocked by the loud name and cold pull on the curtain, and his heart beat up suddenly. The attending doctor conducts rounds twice a day, the head nurse shifts rounds, the bed-bed doctor visits countless times, the nurse draws blood and takes temperature many times. Her name is called at least 25 times a day, and the person is still awake. In the TV series, yelling names by the bedside and awakening unconscious patients.
I came to see her sitting up and drinking the white porridge of the hospital and chatting. I only realized that my name was "Sister" and it was rude. She was born in 1952 and is 67 years old.
However, the female patients in the hospital with hats and thick masks were all of no age. A piece of gauze on their hands also covered the dry and wrinkled skin, and their eyes were dull and tired. No one is more favored than others. It's more qiful to speak, even young people, especially in this incurable disease ward.
Watching her leaning over her neck and drinking white porridge without taste, the Hunanese must want to chop chili sauce and Jiang Yong ginger pickles with a little tea oil.
The picture shows the check schedule
After a while, the nurse handed her the inspection slips. The scattered inspections were in different buildings in the hospital district. There was no communication channel to connect the buildings, and they could only walk through the wind and light rain with cooling. She is naturally weak and has no physical strength. After walking two hundred meters, she feels as if she had lost her sugar on an empty stomach all day long.
At half past eight, I listened to the doctor ’s concerns about her during the rounds. I understood that “homecoming can be conditioned” and I knew that “when western doctors tell you, go home and eat **, basically * The stem of "*" is true. Her typing is really serious.
More than nine o'clock, some patients came to see me in succession. When she saw her friends without masks, she tightened her vigilance toward the corner of the bed by the window. After all, the frustrations of her treatment began when a patient with a severe cold sitting next to her bed and chatting face-to-face with her during the fourth treatment. Two people without masks chat for a few minutes, which led to her contracting a cold and pneumonia and lung infection She interrupted the treatment that was originally scheduled on time and had to fight the infection, not to mention how expensive the various symptoms caused by the lung infection were. When she recovered her life after 200,000 or delayed her original treatment cycle, the cancer cells quickly rebounded. The momentum of the attack could no longer be suppressed.
"Since then, my treatment has never been smoother." She carefully stepped on the thin, non-slip disposable slippers and slowly got out of bed and went to the opposite toilet.
At ten o'clock I watched her go to the water room + bathroom + men's and women's toilet mixed toilet, I was worried that she slipped, smelly urine, greasy smell of wet garbage, sweat of dirty hospital clothes, family clothes washing brush The flavor of the bowl dishwashing liquid, a brain floated into the room through the one-meter corridor. Our ward didn't open the window, and the sickening air just wandered in the sweltering air of the room, continually gathering and condensing, making people angry.
She did not have a disposable toilet pad. When she saw someone spitting and sticking to the toilet ring, she could only turn her back and try to squat down to untie her pants to go to the toilet. It was suspended without touching the toilet ring. Swelling your head makes your eyes bulge, your teeth clenched, your forehead bruised, your heart beats faster, and your chest sweats.
She almost held the toilet door over her head, and posted a piece of paper "Please get up slowly." The next line in this line was the faded blood donation and ambulance private phone.
Going to the good toilet, she shook her legs and shook her hands. The cold water touched the hot skin, and she felt like a pen, and threw a pen sharply. The "nausea" suddenly struck.
02
"I'm fine"
The hospital will have dinner at half past ten.
Zhang Guilan's husband is a gray-haired old man, carrying her green insulated lunch box to bring her meals, a light winter melon soup, a bowl of rice, and a little stir-fried lettuce. In this not-so-ventilated corner, taking off the mask immediately surrounded by the smell of the bathroom, as if the odor of a balloon was poured into it as soon as it was opened. The rice was dry, and she wanted to drink saliva. The hot water in the insulation cup was still a little hot, and there was no straw to take a sip.
At over eleven o'clock, the nurse sent a reminder. She glanced over the side, and her eyebrows were pinched tightly.
She forcibly swallowed some food, and her husband left after packing, forgetting to rinse her mouth. She slowly opened her mouth to cool the mucous membrane of the mouth ulcers, so that she could not speak a word.
At twelve o'clock, family members from other beds have come to see her. She could n’t take a nap and pulled the curtain. That kind of palpitations made her particularly sensitive to her voice: The husband next door was sneezing in a chair next to the wall. I did n’t cover it with my hands; the door of the ward opened and closed to drive a little wind; the sound of running water and washing in the bathroom; the squeaky noise of the stool legs and the ground rubbing.
"Sounds in my ears", every sound has power, for a moment, she stuns her heart.
The thick mattress and the thin quilt, the legs are warm, and the feet are slightly outstretched to give a cool feeling. Her body seemed to be constantly trapped in the fine sand, the more it sinked and heavier, the more tired and heavier her body was, as if bed after bed of thick cotton was constantly pressed on her, every fluctuation of her chest was more tired, and her heart It is also like a sweeping robot that is about to run out of power, returning to the side of the charging pile with all its strength.
Before 1:30, it was too late to fall asleep and was called out by the nursing staff. The entire ward took a note to gather for a corresponding examination. Zhang Guilan couldn't move. The nursing staff pushed her in a wheelchair. When going downhill, she would flip the tail of the car and turn the wheelchair upside down. The person pushing the wheelchair supported the sliding car with his body so that the patient would not slide down.news world ahmed
She said, "It's much better than the last time my son pushed me to go to the basement for CT. He walked down the ramp more than ten meters down the ramp." I walked to the side, thinking she must be dead, Grasp the handle of the wheelchair in horror, feeling the pirate ship rushing down so afraid that he would be thrown out like splashing
The hall of the examination room was full of people, and everyone who stood still looked up at the screen anxiously waiting for the call. Those who turned around carrying big bags would naturally not notice Zhang Guilan, who was sitting on a wheelchair, and his face was hit. Will not be noticed by anyone. The nurse took a row with seven or eight patients alone, and the family members with Erlang's legs staring at the cellphone on the corridor seat would not even notice that their shoes kicked into Zhang Guilan's knee.news world ahmed
For ordinary people, this is nothing. For patients with very low platelets, a bowed head will turn red eyes and a slight push will cause bleeding under the skin and bruises. However, for Zhang Guilan, these marks were silent, as if they had never happened.
After a puncture biopsy guided by B-ultrasound, she had to hold the wound under the gauze firmly for 20 minutes, but her hands were soft and she couldn't feel the strength. The ultrasound on the other side of the heart also began to call her name, and the cold coupling agent was spread on her hot skin, and was instantly thrown into the ice and snow like a piece of hot tofu. She couldn't care about pressing the thickest pinhole wound on the back of the hand to create the shadow agent, and she could only let it slowly bleed, and it would turn into a full blue in two days.
The picture shows the wound after the puncture of Brother Zhu
On the way back to the ward at more than three o'clock, she could be "spattered" to the face by a cold wind through a mask. This cold feeling can relieve her feeling of tightness and shortness of breath.
At four o'clock, she was leaning on the bed and watching the mobile phone tossing and turning. The nurse came over and put the iron plate on the bed. The plastic tube inside the iron plate rolled and rolled. "38 bed, Zhang Guilan, draw blood", she was numb Pulling the sleeve open, I saw her thin, long-sliced green onion-like dried arms, and other wounds besides the indwelling needle.
At about four o'clock, Zhang Guilan's son came, and hurriedly took the reminder to pay in before the hospital closed the bill. I joked with other patients and said, "We are also living in the most expensive place in Shanghai. One and a half square meters a day can be tens of thousands." She shook her head and lay down on the small table for dinner, like a loofah falling down from a vine.
The picture shows Brother Zhu eating takeaway
I couldn't stand the boredom of the ward, so I sat on the stairs and ate takeaway. She couldn't stand the wind. The girl next door went to Zhang Guilan for a chat. She spoke softly and responded intermittently. Later, the smile in her eyes couldn't keep up, and the gentleness was also out of breath and tired of speaking.
At more than six in the evening, Zhang Guilan tinkered with the mobile phone for a long time and asked me how to switch the line in the chat dialog box. I remembered that my mother-in-law WeChat input method had the same problem. The handwritten keyboard was not easy to find the line feed key. I took her cell phone to help her operate it, stunned the content of the message, and wrapped the last sentence before:
"I'm fine."
03
How long can a night
The water room was very busy at 7:30. The family members of each bed took the basin of hot water to wash the feet and face of the patients, and the body bones could go to the narrow bathroom in the innermost part of the bathroom to wash. However, most people have lived for more than three days, their heads are oily, their necks are sweaty, and they can only tolerate dirt if they are cold.
Bone marrow aspiration and biopsy wounds will not be wet for three days, and no one will be able to bear the stickiness, itching, and tide without rubbing themselves. If you don't have artifacts like nursing wipes, you will really doubt life.
Zhang Guilan has an elder sister. This is very good. After cleaning and washing her face, she hurried off in a bus before 8 o'clock.
Family members in the ward took out folding beds from the balcony and laid them next to the beds.
The curtain slowly pulled up, and you can still clearly hear the sound of the vibrato video and the three steps of the square dance.
Zhang Guilan's head of the bed shook slightly, and she hadn't slept yet. The lamp on the bedside reflected her face in the cloth curtain. She was unaccompanied by me like me. I was a teenager with Internet addiction. I could spend the whole night on my mobile phone, but she was just unaccompanied.
The water room, like the vegetable market and the morning market, will not be so noisy until 9:30.
The picture shows the daily ward medicine
For a lot of people, the sleeping pills that the nurse sent us are just enough to promote a little sleepiness.
At ten o'clock, the nurse started to pull the curtains for the first time. Zhang Guilan's ceiling light had not been turned off, and the couple in the next bed were already breathing and falling asleep.
The picture shows the Internet addiction juvenile brother
At half past ten, I could hear the sound of the oxygen machine near the hospital bed with my earplugs, like a water pump, with a muffled stew soup accompanied by the amplified breathing sound under the mask. Zhang Guilan just sighed slightly and turned over again.
At twelve o'clock, the nurse took the temperature of the individual. The sound of friction between the curtain rod and the metal ring seemed harsh in the background of snoring sounds, oxygen pump sounds, and monitor sounds.
At two o'clock, the nurse just walked one by one in the ward. Outside the two wards, someone just hung up the first day of Merlot. The bell was a Christmas song, and it rang again. My earplugs were so itchy, and I was ready to surf the whole night. Zhang Guilan's breathing sound was still light, and the capricious sound of the two layers of cotton on the hospital clothes and the hood was also heard.
I don't know when I fell asleep, and then the nurse pulled me up to draw blood.
At "four thirty", I mechanically stretched out my arm, glanced at the iron tray, and threw 30 tubes in a blink of an eye. I went over my head until my arm was numb.news world ahmed
After drawing for me, the nurse opened the curtain of Zhang Guilan. She was also ready. She hadn't applied various blue and purple pinholes to potato chips, and she was also looking for a place to draw blood. Wearing a pullover is very inconvenient, and there are needles in the arm. I watched her show her arm. I couldn't help thinking, "Doesn't her family know that the old man is going to wear a cardigan?"
At five o'clock, I can't sleep. The whole ward got up.
I looked sideways at Zhang Guilan. We didn't say a word. She looked like she hadn't slept all night.
During the rush hour in the morning, there are many elderly people. A few patients with constipation are not enough to relieve their constipation. I doubt whether elderly people who squat can stand up. After all, there are no handrails in the toilet.
At 6:30, I went out of the ward and went to the convenience store to buy coffee. It was not too bright at dawn, and my body was so tired and tired. I walked dimly in the hospital, a little confused, like many patients who have been in the hospital for a long time, thinking, "What is the meaning of living like this"? To refuel this hematopoietic machine.nba finals
The picture shows Brother Zhuzi dizzy and tired that day
Zhang Guilan, who spent such a day with me, will only be more tired and uncomfortable than me.
I don't know what propped her up, probably the kid on the phone screen wallpaper.
04
I just learned to be vulnerable
On Wednesday I was lined up for PETCT in another hospital on an empty stomach, and I met a mother and child in the waiting area.nba finals
The old lady was standing shivering and wearing a heavy down jacket, her face was pale, her son was holding her shoulders with both hands to keep her standing.nba finals
We were waiting in line to inject the developer, and I kept watching her. As the body shuddered, the urine bag also wobbled. For the first time, I said to a stranger with a bad tone:
"Can't you borrow a wheelchair for her? Didn't you see she couldn't stand?"
The aunt in the front row also helped, and said that the outpatient clinic can borrow a wheelchair, and the ward nurse can also help push it over. An elderly woman who trembled with a knife and walked from the inpatient building really can not imagine. She was dizzy and low in sugar for more than ten hours on an empty stomach, and she couldn't stand.nba finals
The picture shows a hand pushing a wheelchair, the arm has no strength at all
My son was embarrassed and my heart softened.news world ahmed
I do n’t know why I always have sour eyes and sore noses in the hospital, probably everything I see is sympathetic, and maybe the sadness I feel will remind you of the old man in my family. So I really hope that my friends who see this article will be more careful and patient in the hospital, and prepare more things they will use when taking care of their own elderly people.
Because many people feel uncomfortable, uncomfortable, and uncomfortable. For the elderly, they are "not worth mentioning.news world ahmed
