A person's helplessness
In the outpatient clinic, Tao Luobai stared blankly at the three red marks on his hand left by the doctor's fingernails.
Doctor: "Look at those three marks on your hands. Have they not gone away? That means you do have urticaria. Go get a blood test and it should be confirmed."
Half an hour later, Tao Luobai returned to the doctor's office with the blood test report. He handed the report to the doctor, who pointed to the eosinophil column and said, "Look, your data here is clearly above normal levels, indicating that you are allergic. This is a manifestation of urticaria."
"Look, do you want an IV or medication to control it?"
Tao Luobai's first reaction was definitely to take medicine. He didn't have the time and energy to run to the hospital every day.
Unexpectedly, the doctor added, "Infusion is more effective than medication. If medication doesn't control the condition, your acute urticaria will inevitably become chronic, and then it will be difficult to treat, and the condition will recur."
"Oh, right. When your disease strikes, don't think that the rash will only appear on your skin. In fact, it also grows on your internal organs. Therefore, some patients will experience difficulty breathing due to these growths in their throats. In severe cases, it may be life-threatening—"
Tao Luobai smiled bitterly. He understood what the doctor meant. He had better get an IV drip.
"Then let's give him an IV." Even though he didn't know whether the doctor was exaggerating, Tao Luobai was a man who valued his life after all, so he made a decision quickly.
Then he started to go through the admission procedures, paid the fees, had various X-rays taken, and went to the inpatient department to have his blood drawn before he went into the ward and lay on the bed to receive an IV drip.
The nurse gave him three bottles of water in total. Tao Luobai asked and found out that conservatively it would take three hours to complete the infusion. However, this time he was sick, he would need to receive the water for five days, and he would have to come to the hospital once a day to apply medicine to the rash on his skin.
It's still very troublesome.
It was already five o'clock in the morning.
Tao Luobai watched the drops of water dripping down and felt like his eyes were about to close, especially at this time of bedtime, and his phone was almost out of battery and he couldn't play games yet.
But he couldn't sleep. He was the only one there, and he had to stay with her. Otherwise, if the blood flowed back into the infusion tube after the fluid was infused, that would be a terrible thing.
So Tao Luobai turned down the brightness of his phone to the lowest setting and began to look through the chat history between him and Meng Yisheng.
Tao Luobai started reading from the latest few sentences, which were the replies to his last emotional words.
Meng Yisheng seemed to realize that he was angry and sent him many apologies.
At that time, Tao Luobai had already fallen asleep and naturally did not respond to him.
Then, five minutes later, Meng Yisheng started messaging again. He said that I shouldn't have made him angry, that he wouldn't care what he said anymore, and that from now on, if he was unhappy, he could yell at him and that he shouldn't hold it in or give him the cold shoulder. He was very upset.
Are you sad? Tao Luobai smiled, but his smile was uglier than crying. He always felt that he was the saddest person now. He was just a little bit naughty with Meng Yisheng, and now he got the retribution. Even eating mooncakes can cause urticaria.
Now I'm fine. I finally have a day off from classes on Friday and I started receiving the IV drip. I'm alone and can't do anything. I feel lonely.
He didn't dare tell Bai Qiaosong about this because his mother asked him to bring the mooncakes to him. Although it was not his fault that he was greedy and wanted to eat dessert, he was also afraid that Bai Qiaosong would feel guilty about it.
But he has to talk to someone, otherwise, he will really be an unwanted child.
Tao Luobai hesitated for a long time before deciding to tell his father about this matter - he had searched on the Internet and found that malnutrition and weak immunity were also causes of this disease. He was afraid that his father would think that he was sad because he did not treat him to good food and drink at home.
He had already called his father to tell him that he was sick, but he found that it was only half past five, which was his father's bedtime. If he suddenly sent a message and his father's phone was not turned to silent mode, he would have to keep another person awake tonight.
Tao Luobai exited the chat box with his father again, thinking of waiting until eight o'clock in the morning to tell him, and began to stare motionlessly at the infusion bottle on his head.
At this point, the water in the first small bottle was almost empty. Tao Luobai rang the bell to call the nurse over and asked her to change the water for him. From this moment on, Tao Luobai started to infuse the second bottle of water.
This time, Tao Luobai finally couldn't help it. He squinted for a while and opened his eyes again. He found that the second bottle of water was empty and the water column had dropped to the position near his hand. Tao Luobai was scared and quickly pressed the bell to call the nurse to change his water.
After all this trouble, Tao Luobai finally lost the last bottle of water. Of course, the last bottle of water was also the one with the most.
Seeing that Tao Luobai seemed to be very sleepy, the nurse thoughtfully installed an alarm for him, saying that the alarm would sound when the infusion was finished.
Tao Luobai finally felt relieved and prepared to close his eyes for a while. He was really very sleepy.
It was when he closed his eyes again that Tao Luobai discovered that he had a serious problem - he had urinary distress, not the kind that was generally tolerable, but the extremely severe kind. He felt as if his bladder would burst in the next second.
Tao Luobai opened his eyes again. He stood up on the bed, took down the liquid bottle hanging above his head, then got out of bed, put on his slippers slowly, and moved towards the toilet step by step.
During this period, Tao Luobai kept watching the blood returning from his infusion tube, but he had no way to do anything and had no other thoughts to take care of it. He could only pray that he would go and come back quickly so that the blood would not flow back too much.
When he got to the restroom, Tao Luobai found it was a toilet. He first hung the infusion bottle on a hook above the toilet, and then began to unbutton his pants. Only one hand could move, and the buttonhole of his pants was a little tight. Tao Luobai took great pains to take it off. He was so anxious that sweat broke out on his head, and then he began to urinate.
After peeing, Tao Luobai felt relaxed all over. He glanced sideways and found that the blood in the IV tube hanging on his hand had unknowingly returned to the position of one-third of the length of the tube. This scared him so much that he immediately ran to his bed without buttoning or zipping up his pants.
He climbed onto the bed, stood up again and hung the infusion bottle on the drip, but found that the alarm suddenly sounded again for no apparent reason. It was over. Tao Luobai hurriedly turned off the alarm, then slowly lay down, watching the color of the returning blood slowly fade.
He waited for a while, and the blood in the infusion tube was almost gone, but Tao Luobai also noticed that there was a blood clot in a tube that could not be flushed away. Tao Luobai was frightened again. He remembered that the textbook said that blood clots could also cause embolism, and he was scared again. He opened the red book and flipped through it quickly, looking for examples to prove that there was no big problem.
Fortunately, Tao Luobai looked through the Little Red Book and did not find any information about blood clots in the infusion tube causing death, so Tao Luobai breathed a sigh of relief.
He looked at the alarm on the IV drip hanging above his head. He was not sure if the alarm would sound again after it sounded once. After thinking about it, he suppressed his sleepiness and waited for the liquid to be finished.
Drop after drop fell from the infusion device, and Tao Luobai's vision was shaking. Until the last drop of liquid could no longer drip from it, Tao Luobai realized that it was time, and started pressing the bell. Then, after the nurse helped him remove the tube and he pressed the needle port for a while, he felt at ease and fell asleep.
When I woke up, it was already two o'clock in the afternoon.
Tao Luobai opened his eyes and found that there were many people in the ward, but most of them were grandmothers, chattering about something.
Tao Luobai didn't listen any further and turned on his phone.
He found that Bai Qiaosong and Meng Yisheng had both sent him messages.
Tao Luobai first clicked into Bai Qiaosong's chat box and found that he was just wondering why he went out so early this morning, and did not suspect that he left in the middle of the night. Tao Luobai made up a lie to deal with it.
He lied to Bai Qiaosong that he woke up at seven in the morning because he was hungry, and then he wanted to eat some oily food, so he went to the cafeteria to eat a bowl of noodles. After eating, he was invited by his old friend to a date.
As for who this friend was, Tao Luobai easily put the blame on Meng Yisheng. There was no other way. Bai Qiaosong knew that he was a homebody, and apart from Meng Yisheng, he didn't know who else could take the blame.
Bai Qiaosong replied to me with a "OK" two minutes later, which means he must have believed it.
Tao Luobai exited Bai Qiaosong's chat box again and clicked into Meng Yisheng's chat box.
He had no time to think last night, but his mind became clear after a short sleep. He knew that he could not blame Meng Yisheng for his temper last night.
Therefore, after Meng Yisheng's last words, Tao Luobai also began to apologize and said sorry, and the format of his apology was exactly the same as Meng Yisheng's.
After sending these words, without waiting for Meng Yisheng's response, Tao Luobai couldn't help laughing. As he laughed, his eyes became sore.
He kept wondering, if he had told Meng Yisheng the news of his sudden illness last night, and Meng Yisheng happened to be awake at that time, would there be a new story between them now?
Wasn't he just looking for an opportunity to break in and give it a try?
Unfortunately, he forgot about it last night because he was too flustered.
Tao Luobai thought about it for a while and then got out of bed. He had to go out for lunch first, then come back to apply medicine to the rash on his back, and then go back to the dormitory to charge his mobile phone.
Before leaving, the old ladies in the clinic teased him that he had not buttoned his trouser holes or zipped up his pants. Tao Luobai zipped up and buttoned his pants with a blushing face, then crawled out of the hospital with a blushing face.
In this way, Tao Luobai began his half-day life.
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