Chapter 160 An Unusual Illness
Suddenly feeling some discomfort in my abdomen at night, I opened my eyes and rushed to the toilet, where I had a severe bowel movement.
While using the toilet, I thought back to what I had eaten that day. I guessed it was the barbecue; the green beans or potatoes weren't cooked through.
I went to the toilet twice in a row, and I just couldn't stop.
I had some food poisoning medication at home, and I quickly took two pills as soon as I came out of the bathroom, but it had no effect at all.
I was tossing and turning until midnight, experiencing stomach cramps and vomiting.
While feeling uncomfortable, I cursed myself for being so greedy and for not cooking the food thoroughly before eating it.
Around 3 a.m., I started to have a fever. Looking at my symptoms, I think it might be gastroenteritis or food poisoning.
I took some medicine to treat the symptoms and forced myself to drink some white rice porridge, but I vomited it all up after a short while.
I didn't sleep a wink all night.
The next day, I continued to take medicine for food poisoning and gastroenteritis, but there was still no improvement.
I comforted myself, thinking that whether it was gastroenteritis or food poisoning, it wouldn't get better so quickly, and that continuing to take the medicine would definitely have an effect.
For the next two days, I couldn't eat anything, and I didn't have any bowel movements, but I felt weak all over, and my stomach and abdomen cramped. I vomited whatever I ate.
Desperate for a cure, they added amoxicillin to their existing medications.
By the morning of the fifth day, not only had his condition not improved, but he was even unable to get up to feed the pigs and chickens.
I began to realize that something was wrong. It was food poisoning. If he was going to die, he would have died long ago and wouldn't have waited until now.
If you have gastroenteritis or a cold, you should feel better after taking medicine for three days.
But now the symptoms are getting worse; I can't eat and even walking is becoming a problem. This must be some other illness.
Suddenly, I recalled what the Baizhen base had told me about infectious diseases during the high-temperature period.
The thought of infectious diseases sent a jolt through me. Could it be...?
I survived the extreme cold, the extreme heat, and the wicked people, but I still died of illness.
No, I absolutely cannot die so easily.
Despite feeling dizzy and lightheaded, I pulled out a book on traditional Chinese medicine and began searching for a solution.
Skip over various gastroenteritis and food poisoning cases and focus on infectious diseases.
I found several cases of illnesses with similar symptoms to mine in traditional Chinese medicine books; they were viral infectious diseases.
I randomly selected an infectious disease and, following the prescription in the book, grabbed some herbs from the medicine cabinet with trembling hands. My mind was even a little hazy. I didn't have time to use a small scale and just estimated the amount to grab and put it into the rice cooker to cook.
After brewing the medicine and letting it cool, I drank it down in big gulps, not caring at all about the bitterness and unpleasant smell of the Chinese medicine, only thinking that it could save my life.
After drinking this prescription for a day, there was still no improvement.
My consciousness became increasingly blurred, and my vision even went black intermittently. Suddenly, I had a premonition that I was going to die.
Driven by the will to survive, he leaned against the wall and walked to the refrigerator, found the honey jar, and ate two large mouthfuls of honey. After swallowing the honey, his stomach cramped violently, but his vision stopped going black. He endured the excruciating pain and continued to search for prescriptions in the book.
This should be the last chance. If the next prescription doesn't work, I'm afraid I'll collapse from exhaustion and fall into a coma, and then there will be no hope for me.
To increase his chances of success, he combined the remaining prescriptions with similar symptoms, putting all the mentioned herbs into a bowl, adding water, and cooking them in a rice cooker.
Since I didn't have the strength to move any further, I sat down next to the rice cooker and waited.
At this moment, four dogs were sitting next to me, looking at me anxiously.
Yes, and these too.
I stood up, leaning on a fire poker, and took all the frozen fish from the refrigerator and threw them on the ground, hoping they wouldn't starve to death.
I sat back down next to the rice cooker and waited. The dog, who hadn't eaten for two days, wouldn't eat with anyone else and just stayed by my side watching me, but I didn't have time to pay attention to them right now.
After the herbal soup in the rice cooker boils for a while, take the whole pot out to cool, and drink it down in big gulps.
After drinking the herbal medicine, I had exhausted my last bit of strength. I no longer felt any hope of surviving, so I slowly lay down on the ground and waited to die.
I don't know how much time passed, but I felt my face was wet, and I slowly opened my heavy eyelids.
A magnified dog face appeared before my eyes, and Xiao Di was licking my face little by little.
When she saw me open my eyes and wake up, Xiao Di whimpered softly and looked at me with worry.
I slowly raised my hand, touched its forehead, and said in a hoarse voice, "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid."
My body still felt completely weak, but the cramping in my stomach had miraculously lessened considerably, and I was also feeling a bit hungry, suddenly wanting to eat something.
I picked up a fire poker, used it as a support to slowly get up, opened the refrigerator, and saw peaches that had been sitting inside for a few days. I picked one up and started eating it.
After eating a peach, I experienced severe abdominal pain and rushed to the toilet to have diarrhea. However, this time, the pain disappeared after I finished having diarrhea.
It seems that the discomfort was simply due to eating a cold peach, rather than the terrible infectious disease.
I realized that the last batch of mixed medicinal soup had worked, so I added water to the dregs in the rice cooker and continued to simmer it.
After simmering the herbal soup, slowly pour it into other bowls. Put rice and water in a pot and cook porridge without even washing the pot.
After the soup has cooled down and you've finished drinking it, the rice porridge in the pot will also be cooked.
The rice porridge had an unpleasant medicinal smell, but for me now, it was quite delicious.
I ladled out a small bowl of porridge and slowly drank it down, sip by sip. My stomach, which hadn't eaten for days, began to warm up, and I regained some strength.
The dogs haven't been fed properly these past few days, and they haven't eaten all day today, so they look like they've lost weight.
Tear off the plastic wrap from the melted fish on the ground and hand it to the dogs.
Seeing that I was alright, they ate heartily. Little Iron Egg had also been hungry for a day, so I tore off a piece of fish and fed it to Iron Egg, which also devoured it.
After finishing my bowl of porridge, I need to go check on my pigs, chickens, and ducks.
They took some dried corn directly from the side room and threw it into the chicken and pig pens. The pigs and chickens hadn't eaten for more than a day, and when they saw the corn, they rushed up to grab it like crazy.
I picked a large handful of dried vegetables from the back room and threw them into the rabbit pen. I'm too weak to go up the mountain to cut grass for them.
After managing to feed him, I slowly moved back into the house.
The stomach pain has completely disappeared, and I didn't have diarrhea after drinking two bowls of porridge. However, I haven't eaten for almost five days, and my body is too weak.
As soon as I entered the east room, I sat on the sofa, panting heavily. I had only taken a few slow steps in the yard, and I was already exhausted.
After I rested on the sofa, Xiao Di had already walked to my legs. It sat very straight, staring at me with its eyes unblinking.
"It's okay, I'm fine now, don't worry about me, okay?"
I forced a smile, rubbed Xiaodi's head, and gently comforted it.
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