Wildfire - Chapter 45

[Chapter 45]

After New Year’s Day, Tao Xiaodong’s hand no longer needed injections. After the pain stopped, he couldn’t rest again and basically returned to his normal life. In the morning, when Tang Suoyan went to work, he drove his car to the store. If he was not working, he would go to the hospital to deliver a meal at noon. In the afternoon, when Tang Suoyan got off work, he would come back and the two would go home together.

Tang Suoyan didn’t agree with him driving, but Tao Xiaodong usually only drives with one hand. As an old driver, it is not a problem to drive with one hand.

The little assistants in the store will become proficient when they cooperate with Tao Xiaodong, and Tao Xiaodong will use them more smoothly. He was very tired of being a hand for Tao Xiaodong like this, and he had to keep his head down. When would Tao Xiaodong finish his work and when would he be able to get up. And because I had never done this before, I was afraid that I would not cooperate well, so I always seemed a little nervous.

The children were only 20 years old, not much older than Tao Huainan, Tao Xiaodong looked at them like he looked at his younger brother. Once, the little assistant stood up to pick up something and touched Tao Xiaodong’s left hand. Before Tao Xiaodong could move, he was frightened and squatted there to look at Tao Xiaodong’s injured hand.

Tao Xiaodong raised it and put it on his head, comforting him by touching his head with the palm of his hand. He can’t hear, so a lot of the time it’s a movement communication. The little boy looked at him with nervous and worried eyes, and Tao Xiaodong told him it was okay.

Recently, there have been fewer small workers in the store. The school exam month is coming, and these students could not come out. They had to study and prepare for the exam in school. A group of little deaf and dumb people often can’t occupy a seat in the school, and they can’t speak, and they can’t make a noise even if they grab a seat. Tao Xiaodong later asked them to come to the store. The fourth floor is not commonly used. It is generally only used when classes are in session. Now it has become a study room for part-time students.

The exam for Huan Ge’s postgraduate entrance examination has just ended, and I feel that I did not perform well in the postgraduate entrance examination. So I’ve been a little down in the past few days, and I’m not happy anymore. Those tattoo artists in the store who looked at him patted him on the head, and they were touched for two or three days. I forgot again.

When Tao Xiaodong went out with the lunch box, Huan Ge was still at the door and asked, “Go to the hospital, bro?”

Tao Xiaodong nodded, and Huan Ge asked again, “Will you be back in the afternoon?”

Seeing Tao Xiaodong say it back, Huan Ge smiled and opened the door: “Go!”

The child’s mood was cloudy for two days and sunny for two days. Tao Xiaodong smiled and went out.

The hospital has been busy recently, and Tang Suoyan has stopped attending outpatient clinics, meetings, operations, and exchanges.

When Tao Xiaodong passed by, he had just come out of the operating room, and he had not changed his clothes. The two met at the door of the office. Tang Suoyan said to him, “I told you not to come here, I will go downstairs to eat, you have one hand. drive less.”

“It’s okay.” Tao Xiaodong went in with him, “It doesn’t matter.”

There was a doctor behind Tang Suoyan, Dr. Chen who was sitting next to each other on the plane during the last event, and jokingly asked: “Mr. Tao, you can’t just bring meals to our director, there are so many people in our department, you can bring them occasionally. Can’t you come to us?”

Tao Xiaodong smiled and nodded: “It’s easy to say.”

Dr. Chen came to Tang Suoyan to pick up something, and left after picking it up. When the person left, Tang Suoyan said, “Don’t come tomorrow, you’re inconvenient, don’t let your heart break.”

“I’m bored anyway, so come out for a walk.” Tao Xiaodong saw that there was no water in the thermos cup on Tang Suoyan’s desk, so he went out and brought him a glass of water.

When Tang Suoyan was busy, he often didn’t eat at noon, or someone brought him the meal, and he didn’t know when he would eat it, and it was cold in the morning. Doctors have too many occupational diseases, Tao Xiaodong wants to take care of them.

“I may have to work overtime this week.” After Tang Suoyan finished talking to Tao Xiaodong, he simply explained everything behind him, “I may not take many vacations until the Chinese New Year.”

“It’s so hard.” Tao Xiaodong said with a smile, “But I’m not busy. I have few things to do this year. It’s fine if you don’t take a vacation. You can see it every day anyway.”

Tao Xiaodong intends to do well, deliver meals at noon, pick them up at night, and rub his hands when they are tired. Doctor Tang treats illnesses and saves people. All he does is serious business. If Tao Xiaodong can’t help, he can do these trivial things.

Tang Suoyan looked at him, Tao Xiaodong asked, “What’s wrong?”

Tang Suoyan didn’t know what to think, and finally just smiled and shook his head and said nothing, and then asked him, “Don’t you think I always have no time to be annoying?”

Tao Xiaodong waved his hand: “When anyone is not busy, I can’t see anyone for a long time when I go out. Who is not busy, it is inevitable.”

Now that they are staying at other people’s houses, Tao Xiaodong doesn’t play around with snacks anymore, and he doesn’t leave immediately after the meal is delivered, so he can sit with him for a while.

While the two were talking, someone knocked on the door.

Tang Suoyan let in, it was the head nurse who came.

“Sister Chen.” Tang Suoyan greeted.

“Hey, have you finished eating?” The head nurse and Director Yang of the ENT Department are husband and wife. They have been in the hospital for many years and are very familiar with Tang Suoyan.

Tang Suoyan said he had eaten it.

Tao Xiaodong came often, and the head nurse knew him. They nodded and smiled at each other as greetings. Tao Xiaodong stood up and let her sit.

She waved her hand and said with a smile, “I’ll stand for a while, I’m tired from sitting for a long time.”

She came here because she wanted to say something: “Suo Yan, there was a lot of trouble on the other side of the ward in the morning. A patient said that you asked for it. We don’t have any beds here, and her situation…” The head nurse shook her head and said. , “Can’t get in.”

Tang Suoyan said a patient’s name, and the head nurse nodded and said, “Yes, it’s her.”

Tang Suoyan said, “I know this.”

“It’s so noisy, the family members are splashing around at the nurse station, and a new intern girl made him cry.”

No matter what kind of family head nurse I have seen a lot, don’t take it seriously. She said to Tang Suoyan, “the nurses didn’t hear you tell me to accept her, so I drove her away. This kind of department can’t accept it, and there are really no beds. Now there are two extra beds in one ward. You know all this.”

Tang Suoyan shook his head and said, “Don’t tell me this, Sister Chen, I understand.”

The patient Tang Suoyan was confiscated from the beginning, and there is no plan for her. Hospitals have hospital rules, and patients with advanced cancer who have no plans are almost not admitted to the hospital. Medical resources are too limited, especially for the ophthalmology department of the Third Hospital. Some patients have to wait for months for an operation, in order to wait for a bed and wait for limited medical resources to make room for him.

Therefore, the admission of such patients who cannot be given a treatment plan is a resource, and it also increases the fear of other patients in the inpatient department. Hospitals usually communicate positive, and seeing patients die is a huge blow to patients with the same disease.

“I asked them to go to the oncology department to try, but the human oncology department will not accept it. No one will accept the extra-cardiac, nerve, and blood vessels. In the morning, the family members lie in front of the nurse’s station, shouting to commit suicide, and clamoring to see you. I It was easy to get rid of.”

Tang Suoyan said helplessly: “I blocked my house last week and waited beside my car.”

“My God…” The head nurse was startled, “Do you know each other?”

“I don’t know.” Tang Suoyan sighed and asked again, “How is the patient’s condition?”

“It’s just one or two days.” The head nurse also had some regrets in her eyes, “I can’t take off the oxygen, I can’t walk by myself, and my heart and lungs can’t carry it.”

After the head nurse left, Tao Xiaodong asked worriedly, “Just the last time?”

Tang Suoyan said “um”.

“Then…” Tao Xiaodong blinked, “Waiting to die?”

Tang Suoyan lowered his head and said nothing.

In the face of life and death, people are very small and helpless. Medicine is growing all the time, but it is still very young, and there is a limit to what it can do.

Tao Xiaodong sat for a while and said, “I’ll come pick you up at night.”

Tang Suoyan said, “I don’t know if I will work overtime today. You wait for my call? If it’s too late, go back first.”

“No.” Tao Xiaodong was a little worried. The family member made him unsure last time. “I’ll pick you up no matter what time it is. You work overtime and I’ll wait for you in your office.”

Tang Suoyan laughed: “What are you doing?”

“I have to pick you up anyway.” Tao Xiaodong also felt that it was a bit exaggerated, and laughed to himself, “Did I pass it?”

“Understandable.” Tang Suoyan also smiled and said to him, “I haven’t had much contact with it, you will get used to it after a long time, so don’t take it seriously.”

“I just became a family member of a doctor and I haven’t gotten used to it yet.” Tao Xiaodong said.

After saying this, Tang Suoyan immediately looked up at him and raised his eyebrows: “My God.”

Tao Xiaodong said something crazy and couldn’t stand it. Tang Suoyan asked him, “Are you a doctor’s family?”

Tao Xiaodong laughed so embarrassed, he blinked and asked, “Then I… don’t you?”

Tang Suoyan smiled gently, and the white coat on his body looked gentle: “I don’t know.”

Tao Xiaodong looked at the doctor in front of him and felt soft and at ease. He stood up and asked, “Then can I go?”

Tang Suoyan raised his head: “Because I won’t be a family member?”

“Yes, I have no face to sit here.” Tao Xiaodong picked up the lunch box and turned to leave.

Tang Suoyan stood up to see him off. When Tao Xiaodong opened the door, Tang Suoyan said, “I didn’t say you weren’t.”

Tao Xiaodong smiled, turned around and squeezed in his hand, closed the door and left, saying, “Wait for me to pick you up at night.”

It turns out that Tang Suoyan has more experience, and there is no follow-up to what Tao Xiaodong is worried about. Tao Xiaodong passed a few days carefully, but Tang Suoyan was always calm.

There was no trouble with the family, but Tangning was not so quiet these days.

He called Tang Suoyan twice more. Tao Xiaodong was next to him on the two phone calls, Tang Suoyan answered it once, and he could hear him without carrying Tao Xiaodong behind his back. Tangning still wanted to chat with Tang Suoyan inside and out. Tang Suoyan said that she was busy recently and had no time.

Later, he called Tang Suoyan again and didn’t answer.

This was very embarrassing. Every time Tangning looked for Tang Suoyan, the three of them were not at ease.

Tang Suoyan and Tangning broke up peacefully. They talked with each other and got together. This is very much in line with what their personalities can do, so that a relationship doesn’t end badly. When they meet again, they greet each other politely, and they may be alienated or a little indifferent, but they will not be so stiff that they pretend not to know each other.

This matter itself is also a bit of a tacit understanding, two people reach an agreement, in order to maintain such a state.

Now Tangning obviously didn’t want to be in the current state. He seemed to have just realized that Tang Suoyan was really no longer where he was, and he couldn’t find it when he turned around.

Tao Xiaodong and Tangning have different personalities. Sometimes when he thinks about Tangning, Tao Xiaodong really doesn’t know what he is thinking. If this matter is replaced by Tao Xiaodong, let’s not say whether Tang Suoyan will let him go. Even if he really regrets it, he won’t call to talk about it. It must be blocked by people.

Candidly and neatly, he said all his thoughts in his heart: I regret it, I still want to be with you, can we get along again?

Some words can’t be said across the phone, you have to stand opposite and stare into the eyes.

Tao Xiaodong still didn’t know why they separated, but since Tangning could say that he regretted it, he must have mentioned the separation. After mentioning it, he refused to even say regret in person, thinking that Tao Xiaodong was suddenly a little worthless for Tang Suo.

“What are you thinking?” Tang Suoyan brought a hot towel over, and Tao Xiaodong’s hands were often heated.

Tao Xiaodong reached out to him and sat cross-legged on the sofa, not mentioning that he was thinking about Tangning. After all, Tangning didn’t move, so the two of them didn’t mention the name.

Tao Xiaodong said, “I still have to tell you if I want to celebrate my birthday next Saturday.”

Tang Suoyan was unexpectedly calm and only said, “I know.”

“You know?” Tao Xiaodong was the one who was surprised.

Tang Suoyan didn’t say how he knew, he held his hand to put a towel on him, which was done by Tao Xiaodong before. Tao Xiaodong’s index finger bent unconsciously and ticked on the inside of Tang Suoyan’s wrist, not paying attention to what he thought.

Tang Suoyan was tickled by him and said with a low smile, “What are you doing with your hands?”

Tao Xiaodong only reacted and said, “I didn’t pay attention.”

After speaking, he scratched Tang Suoyan’s hand twice with his thumb soothingly.