Medical road ahead

"Yaoyao, come to the second intensive care unit with you, Senior Brother Cai, for a comprehensive consultation!"

Qiao Tan, who was busy in the enteral nutrition preparation room, suddenly received an emergency call from Liu Yaxiu, quickly put the bottle stopper on the nutrition preparation in his hand, carefully put it aside, put the corresponding labels next to each other, and called Senior brother Cai Ya rushed to the second intensive care unit.

"Second Senior Brother, do you know what's going on? I feel that Director Liu is a little anxious on the other end of the phone."

On the way, Qiao Tan questioned Cai Ya.

"It seems that the city government has sent a very important patient."

Cai Ya also only knows a thing or two, not completely clear.

"City Hall?"

Hearing this, Qiao Tan frowned, and walked faster.

Seeing this, Cai Ya followed closely behind and started trotting.

"Old man Wang Kun disappeared after returning from the battlefield. If his children hadn't asked the government for help, we would not have known that this old hero who participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea and made military exploits would have such a miserable life."

When the two came outside the intensive care unit where doctors and nurses frequently entered and exited, they saw several outsiders in protective suits and masks talking in low voices. They all looked solemn and worried.

Qiao Tan guessed that some of the solemn middle-aged men should be the government officials that Cai Ya said, and the others were probably relatives of the patients. In addition, Dean Chen and Liu Yaxiu, who was the vice dean, were also there. in.

She and Cai Ya looked at each other, then stepped back quietly, listening to the conversation of several people, and observing the rescue situation inside through the glass window.

"Actually...in fact, it's not as serious as Vice Mayor Zhu said."

A middle-aged woman with gray hair and sallow complexion murmured, she flipped the mask on her face, and said with a blushing smile, "At least, my dad didn't feel the pain himself."

After speaking, he smiled at a few people and lowered his head.

This sincere and simple sentence moved everyone present. They all turned their heads to look at the big glass window, and prayed silently for the patient who was being rescued, hoping that he could turn the crisis into safety.

"My sister was right."

The other person answered and turned everyone's attention.

It was a short man in his forties, and his complexion was slightly better than that of the middle-aged woman. However, from Qiao Tan's professional perspective as a nutritionist, both siblings suffered from typical Malnutrition—the disappearance of subcutaneous fat, dry hair, emaciation and haggardness caused by severe lack of heat energy.

Of course, in addition to thin stature and lack of energy, the typical symptoms of malnutrition are "fat" - edema all over the body caused by severe protein deficiency, especially edema of the eyelids and low-slung parts of the body, accompanied by dry and atrophic skin , keratosis desquamation, or pigmentation, hair is fragile and easy to break, fall off, nails are fragile with horizontal grooves, long-term loss of appetite, liver enlargement, often diarrhea and watery stools.

In addition, there are mixed types, which are in between, and are more common.

However, most people do not regard malnutrition as a disease, but a manifestation of "poverty".

Judging by the way the siblings are dressed, they really don't look like rich people. It's hard to imagine that their father was actually a hero of the War of Resistance.

The younger brother rubbed his hands and smiled shyly, just like his older sister. However, he was more talkative. After opening the chatterbox, he began to talk endlessly, telling the unknown past stories of the hero's father.

"After my father came back from the Korean War, he married my mother on a blind date. He worked as a farmer at home. He never mentioned that he had been on the battlefield. If it wasn't for that time when I was a child, I would have accidentally read about his military achievements. Zhang, I can't believe that I, an old man who can only plow the fields with a hoe, is actually a fighting hero and even won first-class merit!"

"When my mother found out, she asked him why he didn't apply for subsidies from the state, but my father said that he joined the army not for money, but because he really wanted to contribute to the country."

As he said that, he subconsciously turned his head to look at the glass window, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised, "My dad is an honest man, and he is easy to satisfy. When he sees a good harvest in the village, he will smile from ear to ear, saying yes Thank you, the villagers don't have to go hungry anymore."

Staring at the unconscious old father for a long time, he wiped his eyes and continued: "Back then, when my father was very young, his grandparents were brutally murdered by the Japanese. Fortunately, he was taken in by the villagers. Baijiafan survived, so he has always been grateful, and when he grew up, he followed the village cadres to build roads and houses, just to improve the lives of the villagers."

"After the founding of New China, people in the village thought that good times were coming, and they no longer had to worry about being affected by the war. But who would have thought that the Korean War broke out again, and my father left his lips and teeth to die, so he went to North Korea without hesitation. After going there for five or six years, the village cadres thought he died there in battle."

"My dad should be protected by God. He said that many comrades in arms died on the Korean battlefield, and he would never be able to return to his hometown to reunite with his family. However, he just saved aviation gasoline and was awarded a national honor by the state. It is extremely lucky to be able to return to his hometown alive after waiting for the medal of meritorious service and reunite with the villagers. Therefore, after returning to China, he applied for discharge from the army and became an ordinary farmer. matter."

"In order to seal up this unknown past, he also hid his military medals and military uniforms, so, except for a few retired cadres who are still alive, almost no one in the village knows that my dad used to be a War hero."

"After discovering this incident, my mother had a lot of quarrels with him, wanting him to apply for subsidies from the government to improve our current poor life, but my father said that although we are poor, we are not suffering, especially in school. After seeing his comrades die beside him on the battlefield, he is satisfied and content with his ordinary life today."

"Under his words and deeds, over time, we will be content with the status quo, poor and happy. If it weren't for his illness this time, we really don't want to trouble the leader."

Speaking of this, he choked up suddenly, no matter how difficult it was to continue, the tears that had receded in his eyes gradually welled up.

Immediately afterwards, his sister and several other relatives covered their lips and sobbed one after another. Even Qiao Tan who was not far away felt the same way and secretly wiped away tears.

"No trouble, no trouble, this is what we should do."

Deputy Mayor Zhu hurriedly patted Wang Kun's son on the shoulder, and vowed to everyone present: "We will definitely cure the old hero's illness and let him spend his old age peacefully!"

beep beep-

Suddenly, the alarm sound of the ECG monitor came from the ward, which immediately grabbed everyone's hearts.