Dr. Lin, you hurt me.
Chapter 21: Life and Death, Live in the Present
When Su Boding walked in, he just saw Aunt Liu taking out a lunch box from the same series as the Super Wings' thermal bag. Zhang Yan was leaning on the bed, and the small table had been set up.
"What delicious food did Aunt Liu make today?"
Aunt Li had her back to the door and didn't see anyone. She turned around when she heard Su Boding calling her. She smiled immediately when she saw it was Su Boding. "It's Xiao Su, I didn't know you were coming, and I didn't make you breakfast."
"It's okay. I've eaten downstairs. Aunt Liu, you go ahead." The skewers that Su Boding packed in the evening helped him get through the long night of overtime. He got up early and had a glass of iced American coffee, so he wasn't hungry.
"That won't work. Nothing sold outside can be as delicious as what we make at home." Aunt Liu took out a box of snacks from another cartoon lunch bag. "Just have a bite of this first. By the way, Xiao Su, will you be here at noon? I'll cook for you." Aunt Liu stuffed a box of peach blossom cakes into Su Boding's hand.
"Okay, I'll wait here for Aunt Li's meal. Aunt Liu, you are such a great cook, your meal is even better than the one made by the chef at Chengde Building."
"You are just a sweet talker. How can I have that ability? I can only cook some home-cooked dishes." Aunt Liu knew that Su Boding was trying to make her happy. Who doesn't like to be praised? Her eyes were filled with smiles.
"Master, the nurse said that you had seven tubes of blood drawn this morning. You need to replenish your blood." Aunt Liu sat aside watching Zhang Yan eat breakfast, thinking about what to make for Zhang Yan to replenish his blood.
Eat offal to replenish blood. "For lunch, we'll have duck blood vermicelli soup, fried kidney, fried goose liver, and two vegetarian dishes. Master, do you think this is okay?"
Zhang Yan couldn't stand hearing about kidneys at all, not at all.
"Ahem..." He choked on the milk in his mouth, and after his two breaths slowed down, Zhang Yan spoke: "Aunt Liu, are there mushrooms in the past few days? I want to eat Matsutake chicken soup."
"Okay, then drink chicken soup and eat cold shredded chicken. This won't work, it can't replenish the blood." Aunt Liu still thinks her own blood-replenishing recipe is better.
Zhang Yan held up his half-eaten steak sandwich and said, "Steak can replenish blood, too."
"No, steak is not enough, let's fry some pork liver."
Okay, pork liver is pork liver, anything is fine as long as it’s not kidney.
After Zhang Yan had breakfast, Aunt Liu cleaned up the dishes and left. She had to hurry to buy a free-range chicken. The chicken soup had to be cooked in a casserole for several hours, and only then would it taste good.
Su Boding stood at the head of Zhang Yan's bed, holding a document in his hand, reporting on the current progress of the foundation project. Time was tight and the task was heavy. Su Boding felt that he would lose sleep in the future.
The outline given by the planning department is to invite a celebrity to be a volunteer in the pediatric department for a day, take care of the children, play with them, shoot a pilot film, and promote it online first.
The list of attendees for the charity meeting has also been drawn up, and invitations have been sent to the group’s executives, partner companies, and artists from the entertainment company. The meeting will be held tomorrow evening.
Regarding the concert, we are also actively communicating with relevant departments and the hospital.
"Let Zhang Lingbei take charge of shooting the pilot film. I remember he hasn't had much work recently. He's idle anyway, and I promised him that I would give him more opportunities."
Because Lin Feng had to take Zhang Yan for a physical examination, the director reassigned his shift for the past few days and he did not go to the outpatient clinic to see patients.
Just wait for Zhang Yan to complete the infusion task for the day and then take him for a check-up.
Today Lin Feng took Zhang Yan on a different route from yesterday, to the NICU, the place Lin Feng mentioned yesterday.
There were some family members sitting at the door, most of them looked depressed. They wanted to go in to see their children, but the doctor would not allow them because their children were unstable and fragile.
"Doctor, please let me in and see the child. He is a piece of flesh that fell from my body, but I have never seen him. Let me see him."
This situation happens every day, but not every parent can see their children.
"Let's go. The child can't see. You should wean him when you go home, and then go out to work with me to earn money for the child's medical expenses. You have no milk anymore, only a few dozen milliliters a day." The child's father persuaded the child's mother.
Because there was no baby to suck, breast milk was not much, but she insisted on using a breast pump to suck out breast milk, and then sent it to the hospital for the nurse to feed the baby. The doctor made this request at the time, both to provide the newborn baby with antibodies carried by the mother and to give him protection from the mother. It also gave the mother a motivation, so that she could have some psychological sustenance when she was alone in confinement.
However, this situation can no longer be maintained. No matter how good the breast pump is, it cannot replace the baby's sucking.
The child can only become an invisible thought. "Okay, I'll go ask the doctor."
Lin Feng pushed Zhang Yan to the end of the corridor, thinking that he had seen a glimpse of the suffering, but surprisingly, it was only a tiny bit.
Neither of them spoke. They passed by the other's pain in silence, but they were unable to empathize with him. Intuition could do so much, yet so little.
"I'm going to complain about you, Director Xu, right? I'm going to complain about you." A mother pointed at Director Xu of the Pediatrics Department and cursed.
Director Xu looked only about fifty years old, but her hair was already white. She did not accept the parents' request, and walked hurriedly but not in a panic, "I explained to you, I have a patient who needs emergency treatment now, let's talk about your child another time."
Yesterday, the mother received a notice from the hospital for an interview. She took a special leave to come to the hospital, but Director Xu of the Pediatric Department gave her a fact that she could not accept.
The child was transferred to the hospital when he was 6 months old. His condition was very bad when he came. Director Xu performed the surgery. Then the child stayed in the NICU for two years and never came out again.
In the morning, the mother went to see the child wearing a sterile suit. His body was full of tubes. He couldn't speak or cry. He just opened his big eyes and shed tears silently.
The mother kept crying: "Baby, you have to be strong. When you recover, I will take you home. We will have delicious food and go to the amusement park."
There was no answer, because the child had been lying in the NICU all the time and lacked communication. He could not speak or sit up to eat by himself.
Director Xu said that the child no longer needed treatment. The child was in great pain, but his condition was getting worse. She suggested that the parents take the child home to spend a few days with the family. "Don't let the child stay in the hospital without dignity and with tubes all over his body. Let him live a life with his parents by his side."
This is something that most parents cannot accept.
The doctors did their best, and the family members did everything they could, not because of lack of money, but because they were powerless.
It can only be more of a comfort.
"Doctor Lin, do you think it's okay for me to take the children from the pediatric department to the amusement park across from the hospital?"
"Nonsense!"
"Let's not do the check-up today. I want to go to the pediatric department to see Xuanxuan. Anyway, the check-up will take more than a day or two to complete, so there's no need to delay." Zhang Yan began to find various excuses. He didn't want to experience the blatant embarrassment of yesterday again.
"No, I made an appointment for your endoscopy yesterday. It's painless general anesthesia." After saying this, Dr. Lin pushed Zhang Yan to the endoscopy room.
There is no separation of life and death, only living in the present.
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