Chapter 32 Undiagnosed
"Old Dou, I'm starving to death! Where's grandma? What delicious food did you cook today?" Azu yelled as soon as he came back from get off work at noon, and he was completely reincarnated as a hungry ghost.
Old Dou Kangershou pointed to the noodles he was eating. Azu was surprised, "Are you eating noodles?"
"Yes, my sister-in-law cooked them." Old Dou pointed Pandan said as she walked out of the kitchen.
When Xianglan saw Azu, she immediately came out to say hello, "Fourth uncle is back. Mom is out for something today, can I cook you a bowl of noodles too?"
Azu looked disgusted and asked, "Is there nothing else to eat at home?"
It is said that when Master Damo was preaching, he saw someone eating pasta. He stepped forward and knocked over the bowls and chopsticks, and told the man: "Wheat is poisonous and can hurt people's lives." Although later generations of scholars have confirmed the implausibility of this legend in many ways, people at that time believed it to be true. Have a fear of pasta.
The book "Emergency Materia Medica for Classics and Syndrome" written by Tang Shenwei, a famous doctor in the Northern Song Dynasty, has this record: "Wheat is a common food in the world, but when it is eaten by boiling it, its nature is hot. It is very effective to be good at stirring up morals. "
The original meaning of this sentence is that eating pasta can easily stir up morals. However, the people at that time did not know much about literacy, so there was a rumor that pasta was poisonous. In addition, Tang Shenwei is very famous and his remarks are highly credible, which deepens the people's stereotype of "pasta is poisonous".
Although with the popularity of pasta, southerners have gradually begun to be exposed to pasta in recent years, and the rumor that "pasta is poisonous" has been disproven. However, the long-term eating habits and food culture of southerners have made them love rice even more. In the eyes of Cantonese people, noodles are generally a breakfast and midnight snack, not a main meal. Not eating rice means not eating a proper meal. This was also the reason why Azu looked disgusted.
"What's wrong with eating noodles? People in the north eat greasy noodles." Lao Dou, who ate it once in a while, thought noodles were good, and since his wife was not at home, there was no one to cook, so he had to make do with it.
"Let's do this, heat up the cold rice, put two eggs in it, add some beef, preferably some green onions." Azu thought for a while and then ordered his sister-in-law.
The sister-in-law smiled slightly, "Are you still thinking about that little leftover food? It was already eaten by your second brother."
"Second brother, did you make a mistake? You even grabbed the leftovers from me, why don’t you leave some for me?" Azu yelled in agony after hearing this.
“What are you shouting for?” Kang Qirui came back from outside.
"What's your name?" Kang Qizong, the second brother, walked out of the dining room after eating.
Azu complained to the second brother: "You can leave some leftovers for me." Then he looked at Kang Qirui, "Arui didn't eat either, did he? How about we go out to eat? ?”
Kang Qirui waved his hands and sat down, “I ate.”
“Our brother ran to Zhu’s house next door to eat. You can go and eat if you can," the second guy laughed. After hearing this, Azu looked helpless. The fifth child was the future son-in-law of the Zhu family, so he wished that Master Zhu had such a protective character that he could eat whenever he went next door. Go by yourself? The northwest wind has no part in it.
“Is there no rice at home?” Azu sat on the sofa helplessly. There were so many women in the house, but no one cooked?
Kang Qirui explained: "It's not that we don't have rice. Someone invited my mother to dinner today, the second sister-in-law has to look after the store, and the third sister-in-law is at work. My eldest sister-in-law is resting at home today, so she only eats noodles once in a while."
"Where are you going to eat, Mom?" Azu asked curiously.
“I told you to go to Fangcun to eat donkey meat.” Lao Dou was also full at this time and came over to chat together.
Er Lao and Azu looked at each other and said, "Isn't it right? Do you have to go so far to eat donkey meat? Isn't there a donkey tied to the street food stall?"
"It's because it tastes good there, so people even take us there to eat." Lao Dou explained with a smile.
"I have to travel dozens of kilometers to eat donkey meat, and I don't even have any leftovers to eat when I get home." Azu, who had no food to eat, complained.
"I'm back!" At this time, the voice of the old woman Wang Yulian came.
Azu hurriedly got up to greet him, "Mom, what delicious food did you pack for us?"
The old woman rubbed her belly and frowned, saying with a sad look on her face: "What did you pack? ."
When Lao Dou saw his wife like this, he asked, "Are you full? You keep rubbing your belly."
The old woman sat down on the sofa and rubbed her belly and said, "I'm full, but I just feel uncomfortable."
"Mom, are you feeling uncomfortable?" Kang Qirui and the second brother said in unison, But Azu went to find his sister-in-law to cook noodles.
"Mom, the donkey you ate was not a crazy donkey or a sick donkey, was it?" The second brother was very worried.
"No, that donkey is very fresh. I watched others slaughter it." The old woman saw that it was even more uncomfortable to sit, so she stood up and walked around.
“But there’s something wrong with your face.” Kang Qirui asked.
"The qi cannot escape from my stomach." The old woman looked very painful.
"Are you feeling flatulent? Do you want Wanling to come back and take a look?" Kang Qirui saw the old woman's uncomfortable look and asked for Zhu Wanling, a professional, to come over. But after taking two steps, she remembered that Wan Ling had worked the night shift yesterday and was still sleeping, so she turned back and said, "Wan Ling worked the night shift yesterday and is still sleeping now. How about we go directly to the hospital?" The old lady was really worried. Feeling uncomfortable, I agreed to go to the hospital. Old Dou Kang Ershou and Kang Qirui, who had nothing to do in the afternoon, went with him.
"Doctor, how is my mother?" Kang Qirui and Lao Dou came to the hospital. After waiting in line for half an hour, it was finally their turn.
The doctor was not in a hurry to ask about the condition. He first asked whether it was public expense or self-funded treatment. After hearing that the mother was a retired person receiving public-funded treatment, he ordered a bunch of tests and asked the mother to go for the examination first
"Doctor, isn't this just flatulence? Do we need to do so many examinations?" Kang Qirui couldn't help but ask after seeing that the doctor even ordered a gynecological examination.
"Are you a doctor?" The doctor asked rudely, "How do you know it's bloating without doing an examination? How do you know there's nothing else going on?"
This left Kang Qirui speechless. Didn't he just see that the old woman was receiving public-funded treatment and deliberately prescribed unnecessary examinations to get more money. In Kang Qirui's view, this is extremely unethical behavior and violates the professional ethics and ethical standards that doctors should have. As the core personnel of the medical industry, doctors should put the health and well-being of patients as their top priority, rather than treating patients as profit tools.
Kang Qirui was very unhappy and wanted to say something, but was stopped by Mrs. Dou, "Let's go, Rui, let's go for a checkup first."
Kang Qi Rui had no choice but to accompany the old woman to have the examination with the examination sheet. It took more than two hours before she finished all the examinations and came to the doctor.
"How is the doctor? What disease is it?" The old woman handed over the examination form.
"Normal, normal, everything is normal." The doctor looked at the examination reports one by one.
"It's normal, so why am I still feeling so uncomfortable?" the old woman asked doubtfully, touching her belly.
"It has not been diagnosed yet, it has not been confirmed yet, so you will be hospitalized first and then have a checkup tomorrow." The doctor said.
"You still need to check? Didn't you say everything is normal?" Kang Qirui was a little angry. What's going on with this doctor? It was clear that my mother only suffered from flatulence, but after so many tests, no conclusion could be reached, and she still had to be hospitalized for further examinations.
"We have to base our remarks on the facts after examination, and we cannot make arbitrary conclusions." The doctor said matter-of-factly.
At this time, the nurse came over with a checklist and said it was the mother's urine test result.
As soon as the doctor saw the test report, he became excited, "Look, there is something wrong with this test report."
"What is the problem?" Lao Dou said worriedly.
"Grandma, how old are you this year?" The doctor did not answer Lao Dou, but asked about his age.
"I am sixty-two years old, what's wrong?" The old woman looked confused, what does this have to do with her age.
"The age is correct, right?" The doctor was confused when he saw the test results.
"That's right, she has five children, and the eldest son is forty years old." Lao Dou explained. He also felt that this doctor was not reliable. Could the age be wrong?
“It says here that your ‘pregnancy test is positive’, grandma.” The doctor pointed to the report on the test sheet.
Lao Dou and my mother didn’t understand, but Kang Qirui understood. He rolled his eyes and said loudly: “Doctor, look at my mother, she is over 60 and has already gone through menopause. , why are you pregnant?”
"What?" This shocked the old lady.
Fortunately, Zhu Wanling came at this time, "I finally found you. When I came with you, my mother said that Aunt Kang came to the hospital to see a doctor and asked me to come to work early today. Rui, how is Aunt Kang? I heard your voices from afar just now."
Kang Qirui breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Zhu Wanling, "Wanling, find a good doctor for my mother. The doctor can't do it. He said that my mother is pregnant. Isn't this crazy?"
Zhu Wanling was helpless after hearing this. It was embarrassing for her to work in this hospital today, so she had to say: "I am working night shift now. Director Li, oh, the chief doctor in the internal medicine department is off work. How about Aunt Kang stay in the hospital for one night? I'll ask Director Li to come over tomorrow when he goes to work."
Mr. Kang Qirui? Dou looked at each other and had no choice but to let the old woman stay in the hospital for one night. Zhu Wanling finally arranged for a separate ward after selling several favors. Publicly funded treatment all costs public money, and Kang Qirui doesn't want to say anything else.
After arranging everything, Lao Dou stayed to take care of his mother, and Kang Qirui didn't leave either. He followed Zhu Wanling to the nurse's station. The night shift was relatively easy, there was nothing major, and he basically just chatted and rested at the nurse's station. Kang Qirui chatted with several nurses on duty for a while and fell asleep on Zhu Wanling's rest bed.
Early the next morning, Zhu Wanling woke up Kang Qirui and said that Director Li had come to work. I have to say that the director of the department was quite capable. After pressing her abdomen a few times, the old lady burped and breathed out. Then Director Li prescribed some more medicine and discharged her.
On the way back, the old lady was still complaining: "If I had known this was the case, I wouldn't have come yesterday, and I didn't come until today. I stayed in the hospital for a day and I feel uncomfortable all over."
Lao Dou also had objections. The old woman still had a bed to sleep on, so he could only sleep on the chair.
Seeing Zhu Wanling's embarrassed look, Kang Qirui explained: "Many hospitals are like this now, with many unscrupulous doctors and incompetent doctors. So this is why I came to Wanling. Hahaha, because she must know which doctor is the most reliable.”
(End of this chapter)