Chapter 129: Truly Presumptuous
After the boy had this accident, he insisted that he fell himself, which was a bolt from the blue for a family that wasn’t well-off to begin with.
After inquiring, the surgery required a lot of money. The boy’s mother hurried to borrow from everywhere. Good relatives, friends, and neighbors who knew about this proactively offered to prepare money for the boy’s mother.
Some people also offered some money after the boy’s mother asked.
But what the boy and his family didn’t expect was that his direct blood relatives, his father’s side, remained silent at this time and observed coldly.
Some people, while claiming they had no money, went out to party and posted on social media, while others bought their children property for hundreds of thousands.
Of course, the boy understood this. After all, apart from the nominal relationships in this world, in essence, there wasn’t much of a relationship. Otherwise, there wouldn’t be the saying that distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors. At this time, the boy truly understood the true meaning of this saying.
Actually, this saying doesn’t mean that relatives far away are not as good as neighbors, but rather that when something happens, those whose hearts are far from you, or those who don’t have you in their hearts, are of no use even if they live nearby.
It seems like during holidays and festivals, no matter how close or good they are, it’s all useless. All relationships are revealed in times of need.
That is to say, when you need help the most, you can distinguish which people are your loved ones and which are not. This has nothing to do with blood.
Even his grandfather’s older brother was the same. The boy saw all of this and deeply remembered it.
He wasn’t resentful. He remembered these things only to tell himself that when he recovered and stood up again, he would remember to repay kindness, and he would also remember those who didn’t help him. In the future, if anything happens, he wouldn’t get involved.
Normally, this injury wouldn’t require much money for medication, because the boy’s uncle’s family had a doctor sister at the hospital, and many of the medicines used were reimbursable.
Since the nearest city hospital to the boy’s home couldn’t perform this surgery, the family found someone to pay to bring an expert doctor from Fengtian. Just inviting the doctor cost tens of thousands of yuan. The anesthesiologist and others also needed a separate red envelope as a token of appreciation.
After everything was ready, the boy was stripped and wheeled into the operating room. The anesthesiologist first inserted a tube into the boy’s lower back, directly into the spine, for spinal anesthesia.
Soon, the boy felt his lower body go numb and lose sensation. Oxygen was placed over his mouth. He didn’t feel any difference between inhaling oxygen and normal breathing, only that his mouth was covered and it was uncomfortable. After asking the doctor, it was removed.
About an hour into the surgery, a bored boy asked if he could sleep. With the doctor’s permission, he slept for a while.
When he woke up, he found oxygen again over his mouth. After it was removed, he saw the reflection on the monitor and the operating light overhead. The doctor was pulling his ligaments with forceps and drilling his bones with an electric drill. Bone fragments were flying everywhere, and the doctor was sweating profusely from exhaustion.
The boy felt a little speechless at the moment. It was the first time he had seen a surgery being done like car repair, using wrenches, pliers, and electric drills.
The surgery lasted over four hours. The doctor said to the boy, “Young man, your meniscus was shattered, and I’ve removed it. It was too broken to repair. If it could have been stitched, I would have stitched it for you, but it was truly beyond repair.”
The boy asked, “Can this thing be replaced?”
The doctor said, “This technology in China is not yet mature. If you were to replace it, it would only be with an artificial one, and it’s uncertain how it would fare after a few years.”
“Okay.”
“Do you want to take a look? I’ll show you?”
The boy thought, “Who the hell has the mood to look at that?” Helplessly, he said, “Pack it up.”
Hearing the boy’s words, the doctor and nurse were both amused and exasperated. They then brought a disposable medical glove, similar to the transparent plastic gloves used for eating duck offal, put the boy’s meniscus in it, and tied a knot.
Honestly, it’s better to be healthy than sick or injured. During those four hours, only someone as carefree and bored as this boy would want to sleep. It was a true torment and left him at a loss.
After being pushed out, the boy’s uncle lifted him from the operating bed and transferred him to a pushcart to be taken to the ward.
He had a pain pump hanging on his arm, like a large transparent capsule. Two bottles of IV fluids were also hanging.
Two hours later, when the anesthesia wore off, the boy started sweating from the pain and cried out while biting down on something. This was not because he wasn’t tough; he’s someone who could endure hours of tattooing without a single groan. At this moment, he was in excruciating pain.
Because this was not normal pain at all; it felt like a pair of large hands were twisting his bones inside his leg. The sensation was incredibly intense.
The boy shouted for his family to quickly call the doctor, but the doctors were all busy at that time, and no one was available.
After waiting for nearly two hours, someone finally came and gave the boy an injection of something unknown. After the injection, the boy started to fall asleep. When he woke up, the pain was gone.
Every day, someone would change his IV fluids and give him injections in his stomach. There was also a machine connected to his leg that applied electricity, said to reduce swelling.
The boy remembered one of the most awkward incidents was when a young nurse cleaned and disinfected him. He forgot if it was before or after the surgery.
At that time, the young nurse was around twenty years old and quite attractive. She held the boy’s head and wiped it with something. Although the boy was around twenty-eight or twenty-nine at the time, his body was exceptionally young and full of vitality, and he didn’t show restraint.
After a few wipes, the boy’s erection pointed straight up. His family was present at the time, and the boy’s face turned crimson with embarrassment. He couldn’t move and could only cover his face with the blanket. The nurse was also made shy by this, and after that, she never came to change his dressing again. Damn it! It was truly presumptuous.
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This was probably the most shameful thing he would feel in his entire life.
However, there’s a saying that illness doesn’t shy away from medical treatment. At this point, there was nothing he could do.
Whenever he recalled this incident, the boy would laugh at himself, feeling a sense of amusement mixed with helplessness.
After the surgery, the boy ate, drank, urinated, and defecated while lying down. Except for being able to speak and move his hands, he was like a person in a vegetative state. He couldn’t even wipe his own buttocks.
Finally able to walk, he had to go to the women’s restroom to defecate every day. Since his parents were not young and couldn’t accompany him for care, his older sister, who was five years older than him, tirelessly took care of him day and night.
It was precisely because of this that the boy’s sister’s position in his heart became no different from his mother’s. This relationship had surpassed that of siblings. Taking care of him meticulously, without any disdain, made the boy deeply remember that when he recovered, he would take care of his sister like a mother.
On the seventh day after the surgery, Lao Lei, a buddy the boy had met while working in Fengtian, the one he often drank with since they met, came to see the boy with his wife, Yuanyuan, after work. The boy was not unfamiliar with either of them; they were super good friends.
As soon as Lao Lei entered the ward, he smiled at the boy and said, “Let’s go for a couple of drinks.”
The boy, still with a bunch of IV drips, habitually moved his body as if to stand up. Everyone who saw this burst into laughter, and the boy himself shook his head and laughed heartily.
The couple bought the boy a lot of delicious food. Because the boy’s hair had grown, Yuanyuan also bought him a bunch of hair clips, including one with a small flower on top, which she personally fastened for him.
The couple didn’t ask any questions. They stayed by the boy’s hospital bed and played the game “Eating Chicken” with him. The three of them played for a long time.
That evening, around ten or eleven o’clock, Lao Lei and Yuanyuan left because they had to work the next day.
The boy thought that he had to get better soon so he could find time to go drinking with Lao Lei.
The next day, the boy’s sister had something to attend to and wasn’t there.
Miraculously, the boy, who had needed help to get out of bed, put on his braces himself, grabbed his crutches, and ran to the bathroom to urinate and even smoke a cigarette.
The uncle in the next bed exclaimed, “The spiritual power of humans is truly a magical thing. He suffered such a serious injury. After seven days, he couldn’t even get out of bed.
A good buddy came, his mood changed, and the next day he was smoking with crutches. This is truly awesome.”
