1
I didn't expect that the first "zombie" patient I came into contact with was a child.
Medically speaking, zombie is an unconscious disorder, the patient manifests as not speaking, not eating or drinking, all actions and words as inhibition, if you put it in layman's terms, the zombie patient is like a living zombie.
Most of the reasons for this disorder are linked to mental illness.
When I received this child at two o'clock in the morning, I was really frightened, my limbs curled up, my head buried in front of my chest, my back arched sharply, and my calves twitched slightly.
This is the typical defensive position for adults to be attacked, and it is also the best position for babies to be inside the mother's body, both because of insecurity.
Accompanying the child was a haggard-faced mother, who was now panicked and unowned.
"How long has the child been in this state?"
"I... I don't know, when I came home at one o'clock, I saw him in bed like this, no one could call him, I was in a hurry..."
"Have you ever taken any medicine?" Is there any traumatic brain injury? ”
"No, my son is not very talkative, he is very healthy, really healthy."
I glanced at the child on the hospital bed, his thin body curled up into a clump, and through the thin clothes, the rugged spine was faintly visible.
"Is there a familial genetic disease... For example, mental illness. ”
"No, no."
She shook her head quickly.
"What about the father of the child?" Does the father have a genetic history? ”
"No, no."
"If there is, let us know in time, otherwise it will affect the treatment."
She told me that she had been on the evening shift yesterday, and had only returned home at one o'clock in the morning, and when she returned home, she found that the house had been turned into a mess, and the food cooked for the child in the pot had not moved, only to find her son curled up in the bedroom, lying on the bed in a defensive state.
2
I have carefully examined the child's body, there are marks of being beaten, and there are obvious bruises on the back.
"Did the child clash with anyone before?"
"No, my little Yu is very well-behaved and won't fight."
"Are you sure there isn't one?"
The woman's expression was a little unnatural, and she kept pushing back and saying no.
In view of the fact that the child had not eaten for a long time, I first opened a rehydration list and sent it to a quiet bed to rehydrate, although the body began to relax, and I could react slightly to external stimuli, but his fist was always clenched.
From the perspective of blood pressure and brain CT, organic lesions can be preliminarily ruled out, there is no family genetic history, there is no history of over-medication, and why an 8-year-old child will suffer from wood zombies.
I asked the nurse to pay more attention to the child's status, although I did not understand the situation, but I always felt that her mother had something to hide.
The stiffness lasted for about three hours, the child's muscles gradually relaxed, his limbs stretched out, and he lay on his back expressionlessly.
"Your name is Xiao Yu, right?" Remember what just happened? ”
He shook his head.
"Is there anything uncomfortable in your body?"
Shook his head again.
I have never seen a child's gaze as hollow as his, Feng Zikai said that the child's gaze is straight, will not turn, the child in front of me, his gaze is sluggish, will not turn.
3
At six o'clock in the morning, the child's mother returned with a bowl of porridge, and strangely enough, in the nearly thirty-degree temperature in Hangzhou, she was still wearing long-sleeved trousers, and her forehead seemed to have hit her head and bulged a bag.
"Did you fall?"
"Yes... Yeah, it's raining outside and the road is slippery. ”
The child is only willing to communicate with the mother, the words are clear, the logic is clear, and there is no problem for the time being.
Before the morning shift, I went to the ward to take a look, and the vital signs were stable, except for not loving to talk, there was no discomfort.
I wanted to go back to the lounge to sleep after the evening shift, but before I lay down for two minutes, I received a phone call saying that the child's father had come to the hospital to make trouble, and the situation had come down smoothly, and this time, it triggered convulsions and stiffness.
I rushed to the emergency room without even changing my clothes, and the situation was terrible, the floor was full of vomit vomiting because of convulsions, the child was incontinent because of excessive fright, and tonic spasms.
After two intramuscular injections, it was slightly relieved.
A stout middle-aged man was held by two security guards, and his mouth was still grinning.
Xiao An said that it was the father of the child, who was drunk and ran to the hospital to go crazy.
The man who drank the wine was so powerful that one did not pay attention to tell him to break free, and rushed straight to the ward, and the woman did not know where to produce a great force, blocked the door, and pushed the man who was twice as large as the size of a toe.
When the man reacted, the change of hand was a slap, and Shunshi kicked two feet, and the movement was extremely skilled.
"Beast, you beast, beast..."
She cursed repeatedly.
After a night of work, the chaotic scene in front of me only gave me a headache, Xiao An said that she had called the police, and before the police came, I pulled the out-of-control woman out of the emergency room, so I was afraid that the son was not good, and the mother would go crazy first.
At the nurse's station, she was prescribed a bottle of oral glucose.
Because of the excitement, her hands and feet trembled uncontrollably, she had not eaten for a long time, her lips were strangely pale, and her rough, bony fingers held the bottle hard, and her fingertips were white.
"Xiao Yu... Xiao Yu was still inside, he couldn't be alone, he couldn't. ”
"There's a doctor inside, so leave it alone."
I could feel how she felt as a mother, almost out of a subconscious instinct to fight the whole world that had hurt her child.
I slowly asked what I was thinking.
"Is it domestic violence?" Stressful zombies caused by domestic violence. ”
There was a slight surprise in her eyes, as if she had been caught off guard by someone opening the wound, and then nodded darkly.
"The beast turned out to be a well-known drunkard in our village, who went crazy when he was drunk, smashed things and beat me." In the year Xiao Yu was born, he was laid off, he bought wine and drank all day with a little bit of unemployment benefits, he drank drunk and drunk and didn't care about anything, the children grew up, the family's expenses also increased, all relying on my little salary is no longer enough to live, he is getting more and more drunk. ”
4
She numbly told her that it was confessions from a violent wife.
"When Xiao Yu was four or five years old, he already knew something, and once when the beast beat me, he wanted to come and help me, but he didn't want to get a bottle of wine. He was so frightened that he couldn't cry, and I ran out of the gate with him in my arms, and at that moment he had four stitches on his head, and it took several days to ease up. At that moment, something went wrong, and as long as we were loud, he was afraid and sometimes convulsed. ”
The woman came to Hangzhou with the child to join her sister, and thought that she could escape the man's clutches for a while, but she did not expect that the man would come to the door in less than a month, she went to the night shift and was not at home, but the children in the house were sinned.
"Xiao Yu was already afraid of him, and every time he was drunk and making trouble, he had a lot of cramps, and I could only hold him all night."
Domestic violence is only zero times and countless times, and only cowardly men will punch and kick their wives and children, men use this to satisfy their inner sense of self-esteem, and women rarely publicize it because of their ugliness.
Nearly a quarter of women in China have experienced or have suffered domestic violence for a long time, and in such an environment has spawned many family tragedies, perhaps Xiaoyu is the epitome of thousands of families.
It is precisely because it is the closest person that it will bring about multiplication of harm.
"Why... Don't consider divorce? ”
She shook her head woodenly.
"I also wanted to leave, especially after Xiao Yu was born, but every time I mentioned this matter over the years, he beat me even more wildly, and my mother's relatives came to persuade me, and he beat me one by one." Xiao Yu's hukou is in my hometown, and I have no relatives to rely on, so I can only stay up like this to see who will die first. ”
I couldn't accept the idea that she was going to die, but I couldn't say anything to comfort her.
Women and children are vulnerable in this society, and suffering is the only way out for them.
5
Xiao Yu is just an 8-year-old child, the stressful wooden stiffness is in a sense from the stimulation of the outside world, the most instinctive response of the body must be to protect himself, curl up on all fours, and instinctively beat the posture.
After micro-electrotherapy, his condition stabilized again, and the effect of the stable drug had not yet passed, and he was still asleep.
The mother took the bowl of cold porridge at the head of the bed and drank it herself, she needed energy to fill her stomach so that she could have the strength to guard her child.
Afraid that my father will make trouble again, the hospital has arranged a ward with better privacy, and the fund has also given corresponding assistance, but this is just a drop in the bucket, we are willing to give all the beauty, but not as steep as the darkness of life.
Changing shifts with colleagues, at noon the police station came to the news, the troublemakers have been released on bail, the mother and son in the ward are silent, no one who has been a weak person, it is difficult to understand this silent fear.
During the afternoon physical examination, the woman sat on the edge of the bed in a daze, and Xiao Yu on the hospital bed suddenly made a sound.
"Mom, let's go, go farther."
The woman came back to God.
"Don't think about it, son, get some sleep."
Xiao Yu struggled to sit up from the bed, the tranquilizer effect had just receded, he had no strength, but his eyes were very firm.
"Mom is not far away, living in this circle, everywhere is the same."
6
There is a disease in psychology called Skodelmo syndrome, which is a classic symptom of women who have suffered domestic violence for a long time, and they often have a deformed sense of dependence on their abusive husbands.
I don't know if the woman in front of me has this tendency, but instinctively opens her mouth.
"If you're going to get a divorce, there's a lot of free legal aid in Hangzhou."
Xiao An signaled me not to speak, and as a medical worker, I could not interfere too much in the patient's private life.
Out of the ward, Xiao An reminded me that the police can't manage much of this kind of thing, and the private affairs between husband and wife can only be regarded as civil disputes.
"Then who's in charge?"
"The Women's Federation, the Women's Federation is in charge, but the Women's Federation also has to leave work at night."
Who cares? Who would stare at a couple's parents twenty-four hours a day.
Or this time it is not her son's accident, she is determined not to confide so much in the heart with outsiders, patience can be regarded as the traditional character of Chinese women.
Remembering an interview with Chai Jing in "Seeing", more than two dozen women who resisted killing their husbands because of long-term domestic violence were silent and stoic, and the only resistance was the last.
I don't want Xiao Yu and his mother to go this far.
Domestic violence is difficult to eradicate all over the world, and no marriage system can promise happiness, but at least please avoid such extreme unhappiness.
A few years ago, Li Yang, the founder of Crazy English, was revealed to have abused his American wife Kim, who provided a large amount of evidence of being beaten and filed for divorce. Kim has children, a family, her own nationality, and she can turn around and live another life, but this woman is different, the background of her life is gray, and even the scarred heart under the layers of wrapping is completely unable to withstand the toss.
When Xiao Yu was discharged from the hospital, his father came, and he looked less fierce in his waking state. Xiao Yu was still very afraid of him, the man roughly packed up his things, and the slightest large movement could scare him.
Reluctantly settling the bill, leading the woman and the child to the taxi, I stood on the second floor and watched the back of their family of three leaving, very harmonious.
Sure enough, human nature, like the tree, has a superficial light to hide its roots rooted in darkness.
—— End ——
Author: Big Orange