Chapter 52052 The Origin of Tetanus
All medical students will be shocked when they hear the familiar words "opisthotonos".
As the name suggests, the human body is like a bow that is pulled backwards. Everyone knows Liu Luoguo. Opisthotonos is the opposite of Liu Luoguo, with stiff neck and back, bent waist and back, and the body leaning backward. It is mainly seen in tetanus and certain central nervous system diseases.
The old man works in the mountains and fields, and comes into contact with soil and iron tools every day. I believe that the first thing every doctor would suspect is tetanus infection.
"Yes, I suspected tetanus at first, but the family said that their father had never been cut by iron objects. The last time he was cut by a sickle was a few years ago when he was doing farm work in the production team. But the wound was not deep. In addition, the sickle was used every day and was not rusty... By the way, he has not had any surgery recently."
There are only a few possible causes of tetanus, but he had none of them.
Jin Yue nodded. It seemed that tetanus could be basically ruled out, because the incubation period of this disease was not long at all. It was not impossible to last for several years, but it was very, very rare.
If tetanus is ruled out, could it be a central nervous system disease? For example, various types of meningitis?
As they were talking, they arrived at the street office, where several young people were helping a thin and dark old man get off a flatbed truck. Liu Jinbu took them to the medicine room to rest.
That body posture is a perfect portrayal of the four words "opisthotonos".
The old man's name is Sun Yuli, and he is from the same village as Sun Tieniu. Although Jin Yue has never been to their village, he is very famous in their village.
Since Sun Tieniu's illness was cured last year, the whole family went home and told everyone that they were cured by a young doctor named Xiao Shu. Instead of having fun, they kept telling each other how Dr. Shu got to know them, how the epidemic prevention station screened for schistosomiasis, how the district hospital diagnosed liver disease, how they were asked to go home to prepare for his funeral, how the epidemic prevention station held a meeting to discuss the matter, and how Dr. Shu stood up against all odds and spoke out for justice... Anyway, everyone from an octogenarian to an eight-year-old child knows that there is a very good doctor named Xiao Shu in the Xinqiao Sub-district Office who is good at treating infectious diseases and difficult and complicated diseases.
Normally people wouldn't bother her with a cold or flu, but Sun Yuli's illness was something no one had ever seen before and was definitely a "strange disease," so they asked him to come and find Shu Jinyue immediately.
"My father became like this when he came home from work yesterday evening. His neck was stiff. I thought he had injured his neck and thought it would be fine after a good night's sleep. But when he woke up today, not only was it not better, it was even worse. He just complained of a headache." said Sun Yuli's eldest son.
"Besides the headache, do you have a fever?"
"We don't know whether he has a fever or not." After all, there are no thermometers in the countryside, so we just touch it with our hands to feel it.
Liu Jinbu took out the thermometer from under his armpit and read it. "It's a slight fever, but it may be the body's stress response."
Jin Yue nodded and asked him to change sides and measure again later.
"Have you ever felt nauseous or vomited?"
The Sun family's sons said no in unison.
Jin Yue did a few simple tests and the meningeal irritation signs were negative.
"I think the possibility of meningitis is not high."
Generally, meningitis is caused by infection. If there is an infection, there is a high probability that there will be fever, positive meningeal irritation signs, and vomiting, which are very typical symptoms that are difficult to ignore.
Zhu Daqiang breathed a sigh of relief. It was good that it wasn't meningitis. Otherwise, things would be quite troublesome. "Then in this situation, should we send them to the district hospital?"
Jin Yue shook her head. She grabbed the patient's left hand and began to take his pulse. Because of his opisthotonos, Sun Yuli could only lie sideways on the table, with several of his sons supporting him.
The pulses in both hands were tight and stringy, like a taut guitar string. Jin Yue thought, could it really be tetanus? But Tetanus has not been injured or had any surgery recently, so it is impossible for him to form an anaerobic environment.
Jin Yue didn't believe it, so she asked the sons of the Sun family to take off his clothes and pants until he was left with only his underwear. She checked carefully and found no wounds on his body.
Maybe he was hurt by moving around so much, Sun Yuli clenched his teeth and groaned "ouch ouch", looking really pitiful.
The youngest son quickly advised him, "Dad, don't force yourself, and don't smile bitterly. If you want to cry, just cry."
The child was only twelve or thirteen years old, still at an age where he was half sensible and half ignorant, and his words were childish. Zhu Daqiang and Liu Jinbu couldn't help laughing, but Jin Yue frowned.
"Does Uncle Sun always smile bitterly like this?"
"Yes, I've been smiling bitterly since I woke up this morning. I can't describe it, but it's just like what I wrote in the composition."
Shu Jinyue had just thought that he was forcing a bitter smile, but now taking a closer look, he realized that something was wrong with his expression. This was not a conscious bitter smile, but an uncontrollable bitter smile!
His mouth was tightly closed, his teeth were clenched, and his entire mouth seemed to be locked from the inside!
Zhu Daqiang and Liu Jinbu saw that she looked strange, and quickly came to their senses, "Yes, opisthotonos, clenched teeth, difficulty opening the mouth, and a wry smile on her face, this is a typical case of tetanus!"
Shu Jinyue nodded. This was clearly a textbook tetanus attack. If an illustration was added to the textbook, it would definitely be what Sun Yuli looked like.
"But he has never been injured, how could he get tetanus?"
I checked my entire body, even my toes and fingers, and found no wounds. It's a mystery how I got infected! It was precisely because he couldn't find the wound that Jin Yue didn't dare to make this diagnosis.
"Forget it. If we can't find him, forget it. Let's treat him as if he has tetanus and give him antivenom."
No matter whether it is true or not, just type it in first.
However, there was no tetanus antitoxin serum in the epidemic prevention station, so they had to go to the district epidemic prevention station. Zhu Daqiang took them and took Sun Yuli to the district on a flatbed truck. Jin Yue washed his hands with soap and began to think about his condition.
Liu Jinbu also felt something was wrong. "I've come across a few cases of tetanus before, but they were all caused by cuts from rusty sickles and hoes, or punctures from rusty nails. His case... the general tetanus toxin can't invade normal skin and mucous membranes. He has no wounds on his body, and he hasn't had any surgery. How did he get infected?"
Shu Jinyue carefully recalled the places he had just checked. Not to mention new wounds, even old wounds that had healed were not found.
"You guys checked him inside. Are there no wounds around his vulva and genitals?"
Liu Jinbu shook his head affirmatively.
That's strange. Jin Yue thought about all the possible diseases in his mind and quickly ruled them out. Only tetanus was the most suitable, the only one.
"Forget it, let's wait for news." Liu Jinbu yawned and took out a handful of braised peanuts. Jin Yue was not polite either. He ate while thinking about Sun Yuli's illness.
She is just like that. Once a patient comes to her, she has to think about it even if she has to go without food or sleep, otherwise she will feel uncomfortable.
"Jin Yue, what were you guys busy with just now? It sounded so noisy." Sister Qiao came in on her own and grabbed a few braised peanuts.
Liu Jinbu curled his lips.
"It's okay, there's someone here to see the doctor."
Seeing that Jin Yue didn't seem to want to pay attention to her, Sister Qiao looked a little embarrassed, "Jin Yue is still angry with me? I'm actually quite difficult to be a person. My husband and his relatives always come to me for everything, calling me sister-in-law. I've been busy for a long time, but I didn't get any benefit and still got complained. Do you know what Shen Heping said to me yesterday?"
Shu Jinyue snorted. She didn't want to hear about such men's gold diggers.
"He said that you were deceived by your uncle Xu. He thought that since you were young, it was normal for you to be deceived. Several female comrades in his unit were deceived in this way. He didn't blame you and said that he would guide you out of his scam."
Shu Jinyue looked at him as if he was a fool. No, was there something wrong with this gold digger? !
"He is trying to pin the things he did on Xu Duan, and he is so proud of him." I was really blind to think he was not bad.
No wonder Xu Duan always told her not to judge people by appearances. She was so careful and avoided Sister Li and Yang Zhengkang, but she was targeted by him. How unlucky!
Therefore, she did not mind publicizing the "good deeds" done by their Shen family. "Brother Liu, you may not know this, but this relative of our eldest sister Qiao is really extraordinary. He has always claimed that he only has one sister, but the three sisters he sent away were not his sisters. It would be great if he was really so strong-willed. Who would have thought that when he heard that someone had married well, he would immediately claim to be his relative. Don't you think it's ridiculous?"
Liu Jinbu was a gossipy person, so he immediately asked about the details and even shouted a few times on purpose.
Soon, people from other departments also came. They were all shocked and accused Sister Qiao of not being able to do her job well. "We have such a good girl like Jin Yue, who did you introduce to her?"
"Jin Yue didn't offend you, did he, Old Qiao? I remember several times when Jin Yue treated your relatives after get off work. How could you do this?"
"That's right, Sister Qiao is really mean."
"Why are you helping him pass a message to Jin Yue? This is pure harassment!"
Sister Qiao's face turned red like a rooster. She knew she was in the wrong, but she swore to God that she really didn't mean to trick Jin Yue. She just felt that from the perspective of Shen's relatives, these were not big mistakes. But from the perspective of bystanders who had no vested interests in them, this was indeed inhumane.
Sister Qiao didn't dare to say anything more. "I will never send him a message again, but he was the one who talked a lot this time. I thought it would be the last time. I will cut off all ties with him from now on, and my wife is not allowed to have any contact with him either."
Jin Yue was not interested in her swearing and swearing. Of course, she knew that Sister Qiao knew the situation of Shen Heping's family but still tried her best to bring them together, which meant that in her mind, she, Shu Jin Yue, was only worthy of that.
"Okay, I don't want to hear anything about him anymore."
Sister Qiao looked at her back as she left without mercy, and stomped her feet in anger. She hated Shen Heping so much. Compared with Shu Jinyue who could help her at the time, a cousin who had nothing to do with her was nothing!
***
At noon, Jin Yue went home for lunch. Just as he reached the front door, he heard a commotion in his house. It turned out to be the neighbors who came to see his mother for medical treatment.
Yes, since last month, Zhao Wanqiu has been able to diagnose and treat some simple common diseases by herself, such as colds, coughs and diarrhea. She has memorized those prescriptions by heart and has tried them several times and they have always worked wonders.
The main reason was that Shu Jinyue was too busy, and the neighbors no longer came to her for trivial matters like they used to. When they heard that Zhao Wanqiu had studied Chinese medicine with her daughter for a period of time, they came to her with the mentality of giving it a try.
Not to mention, several people found the medicine effective after taking it, and word spread like wildfire. People started coming to her for treatment for any minor ailments.
If she cannot treat the case or is not sure about it, she will further "refer" it to Shu Jinyue.
"Jinyue is off work now. Your mother is in great shape now. A few days ago, your aunt Niu was anxious and had chest tightness. She was fine after taking two doses of medicine!"
"Last time, my old man had leg and foot pains, an old problem for many years. After taking her medicine, he has not felt any pain for more than two months."
Everyone was talking at once, praising Zhao Wanqiu to the point of embarrassment. "Look at what you're saying. I'm not a miracle doctor. The fact that you're getting better after taking the medicine shows that your physical condition was not bad to begin with. The medicine is just a slight change."
Zhao Wanqiu has always had strong professional abilities, whether as a nurse or a Chinese medicine practitioner. Everyone praised her a few more words and then went back home to prepare dinner.
At the dinner table of the Shu family, Jin Yue finally saw the little chicken popcorn that he hadn't seen for a few days. "How do you feel about staying at the Shilan Hotel? Share it with us."
The child picked at his fingers and said, "There are cookies, ice cream, and steak."
"Oh my, that's a blessing that only the little foreigners can enjoy. Which relative of yours took you there to enjoy that blessing?" Shu Wenming also became curious.
"I don't know either. Anyway, I call him uncle. But I don't like steak. It's not tasty at all." As if to prove that the food cooked by Grandma Wanqiu was more delicious, he lowered his head and dug hard.
Everyone laughed and thought that this child was really honest.
Teacher Shu read in the newspaper that the Japanese delegation was said to be planning to invest in Long Country. They brought their technology with them and were planning to build a TV factory in Shilan Province. The uncle who sold popcorn was said to be a Chinese engineer in Japan, and he was engaged in the field of daily electrical appliances.
"Uncle said he'll send us a color TV in a few days!"
The Shu family was shocked, electricity! See! machine!
color! color! of!
Jin Yue had only seen it in the Xu family in Jinyu Hutong. There were two families in Liuye Hutong that had it, but they were not in their No. 16 Courtyard. One of them was the family of Aunt Niu, the most wealthy woman in Liuye Hutong. I heard that the kids in the alleys have to pay 30 cents a month to watch TV at other people's homes. They have to bring a small stool and sit there for a whole night. As for seats, it is first come, first served. You have to accept the consequences if you lose.
Little Chicken Popcorn was very pleased with everyone's shock. He immediately puffed out his chest and said loudly, "Grandpa, grandma, sister, brother, and sister-in-law, don't worry. My big color TV is free. Just come and watch. My brother said you can watch it as long as you want."
Everyone laughed, thinking that this child was very good at sweet talk.
However, Shu Wenming was really interested. Who doesn't want a TV these days? And it's next door to him, so when the time comes, I'll be right next to him, hehe.
Jin Yue looked around but didn't see Mai Ke. He was in the third grade this year and had to go home for lunch. "Where's your brother?"
"He is very busy, extremely busy." For lunch, Zhao Wanqiu added some cabbage and vermicelli to the leftover chicken soup from yesterday and stewed it until it was very soft and tasty. She also sent a portion to Grandma Hu.
Little Chicken Popcorn also likes to eat this kind of fragrant and soft thing. He works hard with his head down, occasionally looking up at Sister Jin Yue. As soon as Jin Yue looks over, he immediately lowers his head like a frightened deer, and within two seconds he secretly looks at her again.
"Hey, kid, what's wrong with you? Are you shy after playing with your relatives for two days?" Shu Wenming hit him on the forehead, causing him to cry out in pain, and he held his head and continued to peek at Sister Jin Yue.
Shu Jinyue was really curious, "Do you have any secrets to tell me?"
The little guy immediately covered his mouth and asked, "How did sister know?"
"Hey, sister, I'm smart!"
"There are too many people here now. My brother said that this secret cannot be known to anyone else. I can only tell my sister."
Shu Jin was more amused. The little guy even knew about the confidentiality agreement. However, the next second——
"My brother is going to find a mother for us!"
The Shu family: "..."
Shu Jinyue opened his mouth and thought that the little chicken popcorn was a little silly, "How can it find its mother by itself? It's not a tadpole."
"It's true, my brother said he wants to find a good mother, not a bad one!" Being doubted by Jin Yue's sister, his little man's self-esteem couldn't stand it, so he immediately put down his bowl and chopsticks, stood up and said loudly, with his hands on his hips, "It must be a good mother!"
Zhao Wanqiu was so amused, "Hahaha, then tell grandma who is the good mother."
"That's Aunt Yulan!"
The Shu family: "..."
Shu Jinyue was so surprised that he couldn't even hold the bowl. "Does your brother want Aunt Yulan to be your mother?"
"Yes, Aunt Yulan is very powerful. She can defeat the bad grandma and the bad aunt."
Everyone knows that the bad grandma is Aunt Li and the bad aunt is Li Laowu, but they actually want Li Yulan to be the stepmother, which is very surprising and... puzzling.
Xu Wenli's eyes lit up. She liked Li Yulan and had simple ideas. She just thought it would be great if she could be neighbors with Yulan. She clapped her hands and said, "Great, great, great. Your father is handsome and your Aunt Yulan is pretty. You are a perfect match made in heaven."
Zhao Wanqiu coughed lightly, obviously disagreeing.
To be honest, Shu Jinyue also disagreed. She felt that Shang Guangming was not worthy of Li Yulan. Although to outsiders Shang Guangming is just like his name, with a bright future and promising prospects, and technical talents like him will be more popular after the reform and opening up, and having overseas relatives at that time will not be a bad thing, on the contrary, it can bring in foreign capital and foreign technology, making them even more popular, but... he is a widower taking care of children.
"For a widower, this isn't appropriate," Shu Wenming also said.
"What is an official uniform?"
"Go away, children, don't interrupt when adults are talking."
Zhao Wanqiu sighed, how could being a stepmother be so easy? She herself knew that after all her years of being so sincere and devoted to her, the three Wen Yan siblings still called her "Aunt Zhao". Although she didn't mean to force them to change their way of addressing her, after all, they were already grown up when she remarried, but sometimes she still had some thoughts when she thought about it.
This is probably what it means to be unwilling to accept the result.
She would have this idea that it is "even" if she takes the child herself, so what about Li Yulan? She is a grown-up girl, raised and loved by her parents, brothers and sisters-in-law. Unless the family can't make ends meet, who would be willing to let their daughter (sister) be someone else's stepmother?
Seeing that everyone looked unhappy, Popcorn Chicken felt uneasy, "Sister, are you angry?"
Jin Yue smiled and shook his head, thinking that this was just a child's wild imagination. It was still unknown whether Li Yulan was willing, Shang Guangming was willing, and whether the Li family agreed.
“No wonder…”
"No wonder, Dad, please tell me."
"Xiao Li came to see me these few days and asked me about Engineer Shang. I was surprised and thought they knew each other." Xiao Li is Li Yulan's cousin and the middleman who introduced Yulan and Shu Wenming.
Jin Yue felt a little depressed because Li Yulan was such a good girl, but then he thought that Li's mother would definitely be the first one who would not be happy about her daughter becoming someone else's stepmother, so this would definitely not work out.
Because I was still thinking about this matter, I felt a little depressed when I got to work the next day. I thought about calling Lijiacun in the evening to ask if this was true. But the next second, she felt that her behavior seemed too boundless. If Li Yulan actually liked Shang Guangming, then her dissuasion would be even more inappropriate.
After much thought, she decided to wait and see and not intervene for the time being.
Zhu Daqiang has returned. "I was given a tetanus antiserum injection yesterday. I don't know how effective it is yet. We need to observe it for a while. Currently, we can only give symptomatic treatment."
"Unfortunately, we can't find the wound and we can't clean it to remove the free toxins. We can only treat the symptoms first."
Sun Yuli's main symptoms were all caused by neuromuscular spasms. Western medicine used drugs to relieve spasms, such as sedatives and muscle relaxants. These were conventional treatments and had been used in every era. Jin Yue could only nod.
"I hope it works."
She wanted to call Li Yulan, but when she got home from get off work at noon, she saw Li Yulan sitting at home, and her mother Li was in high spirits.
"Jin Yue is off work, come over here and let me see you, why haven't you come to see us for so long?" Mother Li took Jin Yue's hand and squeezed it, "Well, I haven't seen you for a few months, and you've become prettier again, unlike this dark girl in my family."
Shu Jinyue wanted to go see her, but he was busy with work from Monday to Saturday. He finally got a chance to rest on Sunday, but he had to decorate the house like a mouse storing food, clean himself, and help his mother with housework. In fact, it was more tiring and busier than going to work.
"You young people are busy, I know, so why didn't you come here?" Aunt Li laughed. Some specialties they brought from the countryside were placed in the house. "I said I would bring some small firecrackers to show you, but her grandmother hasn't been feeling well these days, so she went back to see her grandmother with her mother."
Zhao Wanqiu sighed softly.
"It's possible that she will have the baby in the next few days." The old lady was diagnosed with advanced liver cancer last year. It's a miracle that she has survived until now. "It's all thanks to Jin Yue. If she hadn't helped the third daughter-in-law to keep the baby, maybe her mother would have... Alas."
In order to see her little grandson once and for all, she has held on until now.
"She started to feel unwell during the spring planting days. She was unconscious most of the time, but she could still recognize the little firecrackers. I asked her to take the child back and spend more time with grandma. She can stay as long as she wants." Mother Li snorted, "Because of this, the other daughters-in-law are not happy. They said why should the third daughter-in-law go back when the family is so busy. It's better if we don't mention it. Once we mention it, everyone has opinions and the family is in turmoil."
"People used to say that sons are great, but look at what's so great about this one? He just creates trouble for me every day!"
Zhao Wanqiu smiled and said a few words to comfort them, saying that no family has a smooth life and it is normal to have some frictions. She also gave an example of how it was the same in other families in the compound, with three days of big quarrels and two days of small quarrels.
Jin Yue's ears were calloused. "By the way, Mother Li, did Third Sister-in-law have a checkup recently? Is there anything wrong?"
"She's fine. The doctor said her tuberculosis had been cured a long time ago. We've started eating and living together, and there's nothing wrong with us."
After chatting for a while, she got down from the kang, leaned over to the window and looked around. Seeing that no one was around, she quietly started talking about business: "We came here today because we have something we want to ask you guys to help us with."
Shu Jinyue and his mother looked at each other and knew what was going on. And judging from the look on Li's mother's face, she didn't seem disgusted. Li Yulan blushed and didn't seem to object either.
"It's Engineer Shang in your backyard. You see him every day. What do you think of him?"
Zhao Wanqiu told the truth, "He is busy with work and has two children. The children are well educated, polite and hardworking. But he is busy and is often not seen. The children eat at our house two-thirds of the time in a month, and he gives them living expenses."
Mother Li slapped her knees and said, "That's great. Tell me in detail what he is like."
"This... I can't tell anything from just a few simple encounters. I just feel that he is polite and courteous, doesn't talk much, and although he can't cook, he loves hygiene, and the three of them keep everything clean."
Mother Li nodded repeatedly, "You are so old, and you are an engineer. Do you have any female colleagues or female friends around you..."
"We don't know about that, but we can see nothing happening right under our noses." Li Laowu had offered his kindness several times but he just ignored her. But it couldn't be said that there was absolutely nothing happening. After all, they didn't know what happened to him in the factory, let alone what happened before he returned to the factory, about which they knew even less.
"Does he have any bad habits, like playing cards, spending money recklessly, etc?"
"It seems that there is none at the moment."
Mother Li was completely relieved. "That's good. I didn't agree to this originally. I was not happy when Yulan's cousin mentioned it. Our Yulan is a little old, but not too old. She doesn't need to find a widower. She has two children. But Xiaoshang came to our house in person and was sincere, so I was a little hesitant."
It turned out that it was Mai Ke who persuaded Shang Guangming to go to the house in person to propose marriage.
It is hard to imagine a scene where a gentleman like Shang Guangming, wearing a suit and tie, comes to my house in person to propose marriage. Although they had been neighbors for several months, Jin Yue had only spoken to him twice.
One was “Are you going to work?” and the other was “Have you eaten?”
It's hard for ordinary people to warm up such a cold-hearted person, right? Shu Jinyue glanced at Li Yulan, but she blinked at her with a red face.
"I know you may think it's inappropriate, but you also know the situation of my family. On the surface, we look harmonious, but the sons and daughters-in-law have their own little thoughts. It is inevitable that a big tree will branch out. With this branch, Yulan's dowry will be less. I want to take this opportunity to let her get married... Besides, Xiaoshang, apart from being a widower and taking care of children, is the best in terms of education, appearance and work ability."
"No one is perfect. If such a good condition is met and the man is still an unmarried young man, then it is not our turn as a farmer, right?"
"Besides, Yulan's biggest weakness is here. It's basically impossible for her to find a partner in the city."
Although Li Yulan could recognize a few simple words, in everyone's eyes, she was an illiterate who had never attended school for a day, a real illiterate.
Jin Yue wanted to refute that Sister Yulan could actually recognize words and read novels, but Li Yulan gave him a deflection and he held back his words.
On the contrary, after hearing what Mother Li said, Zhao Wanqiu began to think that Shang Guangming was a good match.
They were chatting in the old house, and Jin Yue pulled Li Yulan to his new house. "Sister Yulan, what do you think? Do you think he's okay?"
Li Yulan blushed and nodded, "Yes."
"The last time I came to your house, I sprained my ankle on the way, and he helped me back. He is a very nice person, a little talkative, but very polite and considerate. Jimi said he can also sing, the kind of songs that the Soviet people sing."
Foreign song? Fifty years later, everyone would know a few words of this, but now it is a real "special skill" that can attract girls.
"But sometimes I feel that he is too cowardly. Even someone like Aunt Li can control him. The three of them look so pitiful."
It’s over. Once a woman starts to feel sorry for a man, it means she really loves him!
"But he's a widower with two children. He's not worthy of you at all."
"It doesn't matter if I'm worthy or not. Anyway, I'm illiterate and old, so I can't get a high position or a low position."
Shu Jinyue: "..."
"You can't belittle yourself. He just doesn't deserve you."
Li Yulan blushed, "He said that marriage is not a test for professional title. It doesn't look at academic qualifications, it only looks at whether you like him or not."
"Then he doesn't like you either. At most, he thinks you're more suitable to be his free babysitter." As soon as he said that, Jin Yue felt that he had said something too harsh and apologized quickly, "Don't take it personally. I just said that to get the conversation started."
"I know you're saying this for my own good, but don't worry, he actually kind of likes me."
Ah, this...
Shu Jinyue had to hold back all the words in her heart, but she still didn't give up - "Don't worry, wait for me to observe you for a few days, and then I will give you news."
"There is one more thing. Did Jimi's mother really die of illness in the countryside? We also need to figure this out, and by the way, find out about the situation at Jimi's grandparents' home." Being a stepmother is not easy. If you encounter an ex-wife's family who is strong and unreasonable, it will be even more difficult for the stepmother.
"Okay, thank you, Jin Yue, you are so nice. People in the country say that I am lucky to marry into the city and marry an engineer. You are the only one who really considers me." Li Yulan hugged her arms and said with red eyes.
Especially the sisters-in-law in the family, who hadn't even started talking about this matter yet, saying that their sister-in-law was about to marry and live in the city, and that Engineer Shang earned 800 yuan a month, and that she should not forget her family in the future... Although these were human nature, she just felt uncomfortable.
She was active and proactive in her work and could earn nine work points. After work, she could also take time out to make shoes and sew insoles for the whole family. She made a significant contribution to the family and always felt that she was an indispensable part of the Li family. But now the performance of her sisters-in-law made her realize that perhaps they had been eager to marry her off.
Jin Yue didn't know how to comfort them. The Li family was actually good as a whole, but there were too many people. It was impossible to live under the same roof without friction. Maybe one day an unintentional word or action might leave the other person with a bad feeling, but that didn't mean they were bad.
"Every family has its own problems. Don't be sad, Sister Yulan."
Li Yulan snorted stubbornly, "Your family is not like this. Your eldest brother and his wife don't live at home and only come back occasionally. This is called "the distant fragrance is stinky near."
"Your second brother and his wife are nice people too. They won't think about marrying you off anytime soon."
This is true. Jin Yue had to admit that as a sister-in-law, she was very fortunate to have met sisters-in-law like Liu Huifang and Xu Wenli. They were not competitive, kind and enthusiastic, and always left good things for her and Wenyun. She could not find such easy-going sisters-in-law even if she walked all over Liuye Hutong.
The two chatted for a few more sentences. Since the family needed help in farm work, the mother and daughter of the Li family hurried back home after lunch.
Now, as soon as Yue gets home from work, he calls Popcorn Chicken to ask for news.
She took out a handful of spiced melon seeds and said, "Come on, eat them. After you eat them, tell me about your mother."
Unfortunately, he was too young and had no memory of his mother. He only knew that his father and brother said that his mother died of stomach pain, and that there was a big hard lump in his mother's stomach which was very painful.
I guess it's some kind of tumor. I feel a little sorry for that woman today. She accompanied Shang Guangming through hard times in the countryside, and she gave birth to the child after risking her life. She never got to enjoy a single day of happiness.
"Where is your grandma's house? Have you ever been there?"
Little Chicken Popcorn shook his head, "No, my dad said that my grandma's house is very far away, and it takes three days to get there by train!"
However, he stretched out four fingers on his little hand.
Just as Jin Yue was about to continue to inquire, someone in the front yard shouted, "Sister Jin Yue, someone is looking for you!"
Shu Jin looked over and saw that it was Sun Yuli's youngest son, a boy of about twelve or thirteen years old.
"Doctor Shu, please save my dad!" said the child, and he knelt down and was about to kowtow to Shu Jinyue, who was so scared that she jumped away.
Zhao Wanqiu and others hurriedly pulled the child up and said, "Child, if you have something to say, just say it nicely. Stop doing this."
"That's right, whose child is yours? Why haven't I seen him before?"
The child was pale but sweating profusely, obviously having run here in a hurry. He only remembered that Brother Tie Niu said that Dr. Shu lived in Liuye Hutong. He ran out of the district hospital and asked along the way before he found this place. When he saw Shu Jinyue at this time, it was like a drowning man seeing a straw.
"Doctor Shu, please save my dad!"
"Isn't your father in the hospital? He was given a tetanus shot to remove the toxins..."
"Yes, that thing was used to hit him, but my dad still can't speak or open his mouth. He can only shed tears. Normally, he doesn't shed tears even when he is cut by a knife. He must be in extreme pain..."
Shu Jinyue actually didn't really let this matter go these past two days. He thought about all the diseases that might cause muscle spasms and convulsions, but none of them seemed likely.
That was textbook tetanus, but the patient was unable to find the wound and perform cleaning.
"Mom, come with me to take a look."
Zhao Wanqiu immediately took her little notebook and followed her daughter out.
As they reached the entrance of the alley, Liu Jinbu came over on his bike and said, "Sun Yuli's old man is here to see you, right? Don't go to the hospital, go to the street office instead."
It turned out that the hospital used all kinds of drugs to relieve spasms, even sedatives, but Sun Yuli still had clenched jaws and opisthotonos, so they suggested that they be transferred to the municipal hospital. The rural people didn't understand anything and thought that the patient was incurable, so the brothers discussed it and decided to take him home to prepare for his funeral.
Liu Jinbu happened to pass by there. After asking about the situation, he quickly told them not to go home yet. It was obviously not a life-threatening situation, but if they went home, it would be a bad thing. If the respiratory muscles started to spasm, it might cause suffocation and death.
The oldest of the Sun family's sons was only in his early twenties and had never experienced anything. When he heard that there was still hope if he didn't go home, he immediately said that he was going to Liuye Hutong to find Doctor Shu.
When the two sides met, Jin Yue saw that Sun Yuli's condition had become even more serious.
Yesterday I just couldn't open my mouth, but today I couldn't even move my entire upper body. My hands were so stiff, like a bow that was broken to its limit. As for the pain in the throat, I could no longer eat anything, and even drinking water was difficult.
"What medicines did the hospital use?"
Sun Yuli's eldest son handed over the discharge list. Jin Yue quickly scanned it and found that it was similar to what Zhu Daqiang said. It was a very standardized and conventional treatment method.
What surprised her even more was that, at the request of her family, the hospital found a Chinese medicine doctor to see her, and she was prescribed Yuzhen Powder and acupuncture at the Hegu, Taichong, Dazhui, Fengchi and other acupoints.
Yuzhen Powder is a famous Chinese medicine prescription for treating tetanus. "Yuzhen Powder treats tetanus, and the jaws must be tightened urgently" [1]. This sentence is memorized by every Chinese medicine practitioner. Not to mention those several academic degrees, which are also commonly used and important academic degrees for relieving spasms and convulsions. As a Chinese medicine practitioner, Jin Yue feels that the doctors invited by the district hospital are also very capable.
But it still doesn't work.
Generally speaking, if there is no wound and no history of surgery, and standardized treatments of Chinese and Western medicine are ineffective, everyone will doubt whether it is tetanus.
Even Zhao Wanqiu, who was eavesdropping, wondered, "Could it be epilepsy, or a tumor in the brain that's pressing on the nerves?"
She had encountered many such patients in the internal medicine department before, but their opisthotonos were never as severe as Sun Yuli's.
"Epilepsy shouldn't last so long. As for the tumor, it's hard to say." But now is not the time to send him back to the hospital to check whether there is a brain tumor. The top priority is to relieve the symptoms first.
Shu Jinyue felt his pulse and found it was still as tight as before, even tighter than yesterday!
She gritted her teeth and said, "I think it's still tetanus. Let's treat it as tetanus."
Liu Jinbu frowned, "But the district hospital has used everything it can, and it's useless."
“I use Chinese medicine.”
Liu Jinbu opened his mouth. Didn't it say on the list that both Chinese medicine and acupuncture had been tried? "In addition to Yuzhen Powder, is there any Chinese medicine specifically for treating tetanus?"
"We can't say that we specialize in treating tetanus. After all, there was no such thing as anaerobic bacteria in our ancestors' time. But we will treat it according to the symptoms. There is a Chinese medicine that Brother Liu should have heard of."
"What?"
"free oneself."
"Is this medicine in the Yuzhen powder he took?"
Jin Yue shook her head. She had looked at the prescription and it didn’t contain any of these wind-relieving herbs. The doctor didn’t add any of them either. It only used a few wind-relieving herbs such as Arisaema, White Aconitum and Saposhnikovia.
Cicada molt is also called cicada skin, which is the thin shell that cicadas shed. Sun Yuli's youngest son immediately said: "I know, I went to look for this thing last year and sold it to the cooperative to earn work points!"
"But we have already handed over the ones we found to the cooperative, and now it's not time for them to shed their shells yet, where can we find them?"
Jin Yue thought about it and decided to split up into two groups just in case. "Brother Liu, please go to the Chinese medicine pharmacy in the city hospital and ask the pharmacist named Li. Tell him that Shu Jin Yue asked you to go. If there is any, buy 20 grams."
She now knows a few people in the municipal hospital. When she takes the prescription to the pharmacy to get the medicine, people will rush to get it as soon as they see her name, because it is usually an emergency situation where Director Jin asks her to come over as external assistance.
"Mom, go back to the compound and ask Aunt Qian. I seemed to have seen some things drying under their eaves a few days ago. From a distance, they looked a bit like cicada shells. Ask them and if they are cicada shells, buy some for us."
Liu Jinbu and Zhao Wanqiu ran there immediately. Jin Yue stayed by Sun Yuli's side in case anything happened and no one came to rescue him.
It can be said that this old man is quite strong. His body is like a bow and he can only shed tears because of the pain, but he still remains conscious. Occasionally, when Jin Yue asks him a question, he can still shake his head very slightly or nod.
"Uncle Sun, don't worry, I will do my best to help you with the treatment." She couldn't help but comfort him.
The Sun family kid also said, "Dad, did you hear me? Doctor Shu said he will definitely cure you. Don't give up. Don't ever give up. When you get better, I won't despise you anymore. I will clean your ears every day and I won't let you do it by yourself anymore... woo woo..."
His brother yelled at him, "Dad is fine, why are you crying? I asked you to clean his ears before, but you thought he was dirty. If something bad happens, no one will let you clean it even if you cry and yell!"
All children seem to go through this stage. When Jin Yue was young, he also liked to help his parents clean their ears. At that time, he felt that it was a great sense of accomplishment to take something out. He even took a piece of white paper and arranged the things he took out, from small to large. The bigger and more, the more fun it was... Well, it was a bit of a perverted feeling of pleasure.
But when she grew up and realized that ears were somewhat private and the things taken out were dirty, she began to dislike it.
Probably since junior high school, she was unwilling to pay for them anymore.
Thinking of this, Jin Yue's eyes inadvertently fell on Sun Yuli's ear. He was lying on his side with his right ear pressed underneath and his left ear on top. When he was first delivered that day, his left ear was pressed underneath.
Hey...wait!
Jin Yue discovered that Sun Yuli's left ear seemed a little red. She took a closer look and saw a faint red in the ear canal. With that depth and structure, it was impossible to tell with the naked eye whether there was a wound. She was not sure if his ear was originally a little red or what, so she immediately asked them to turn him over...
The right ear, which had been pressed down all the time, was not red at all.
"What's wrong with Uncle Sun's left ear?"
The sons of the Sun family looked at each other and shook their heads.
"Could it be that my father cleaned his ears himself and got them red? The night before he got sick, he asked me to help him clean his ears, but I refused, so he cleaned them himself with a matchstick."
Yes, people at that time liked to use matchsticks to clean their ears, and special ear picks were very rare items.
However, there are many disadvantages to using matchsticks to pick ears, for example, matchsticks are short and brittle, easily breakable, and remain in the ear canal and cannot be removed... The hospital's ENT and surgery departments receive several such patients every year.
Shu Jinyue thought of something and immediately found a flashlight and asked them to help hold it. She shone it into Sun Yuli's ear and saw a black dot-like sawdust.
Looking closely, it is clearly half a matchstick!
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