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The news of Tao's accident was sent by Liu Jingyang to Chang Zheng. On the day he brought Tao Yu back to his home, Boss Liu felt that something was wrong with this person, and he was in a daze, and it took a long time for him to respond.When contacting Chang Zheng, Liu Jingyang only said that Tao Yu's condition was not good in general, but did not describe how bad it was.But Chang Zheng knew how bad Tao Yu would be. He had been taking antidepressants before returning to China. Now that his mother had an accident, and his relatives were pressing every step of the way, the situation was probably even worse than two years ago.The next day, Chang Zheng asked for a leave of absence from the hospital, an unprecedented six-week short-term resignation request, which was the longest leave he could get under his insurance coverage.When Tao Yu passed out in the corridor and was rushed to the hospital by his neighbors, Chang Zheng was already on the flight to Beijing.

No one knew how many sleeping pills Tao Yu had taken. When he was discovered, he was holding an empty bottle in his hand, and a few pills were scattered on the ground.After gastric lavage, the person has been in a lethargic state, during which the blood pressure was once so low that he had to rely on booster drugs to maintain it.

Liu Jingyang rushed to the hospital with Chang Zheng who had just got off the plane, and saw Father Tao sitting outside the intensive care unit.He was almost 60 years old, and suffered repeated blows. His wife's matter was still pending, and his son was unconscious. Father Tao's energy was exhausted in a short period of time, and he hunched over and looked at the ground blankly.

Liu Jingyang has been afraid of his father since he was a child, and he doesn't know how to introduce him on this occasion.Chang Zheng was used to seeing family members of patients who were devastated in the hospital, so he walked up to Father Tao and softly called "Uncle".

Father Tao raised his head and looked at the strange young man in front of him, as if about to ask, but suddenly closed his eyes and pressed his chest with a painful expression.Chang Zheng instinctively took a step forward to support Father Tao, let him lean back in the chair, told Liu Jingyang to call for a doctor, and then asked Father Tao if he was allergic to aspirin and whether he had had gastrointestinal bleeding. Seeing that the other party kept shaking his head, he quickly left He dug out a medicine bottle from his carry-on bag, poured one and stuffed it into Father Tao's mouth—as a cardiologist, it is a common professional habit to carry a bottle of aspirin with him.

When the doctors and nurses arrived with their carts, Father Tao's expression softened.Chang Zheng indicated his occupation to the doctor and informed the patient that he had taken a 325 mg aspirin.The doctor nodded and pushed Father Tao to go for an examination.After that, Chang Zheng ran back and forth between Tao Yu and his father, but luckily the situation on both sides gradually stabilized.By the afternoon of the next day, the strength of the medicine in Tao Yu's body faded, and he finally woke up from the coma.

After passing the critical period, Tao Yu wanted to go home, so Chang Zheng actually discharged him from the hospital.The beds in the hospital are tight, and they have to be moved from the intensive care unit to the corridor to wait for beds when they leave the hospital. Dr. Chang has only seen such overcrowded scenes in New York hospitals at 911/[-]. After talking with the doctor, he prescribed intravenous nutrition for a week and brought Follow Tao Yu back to his parents' house.

Father Tao did not object to Chang Zheng taking the man out of the hospital on his own initiative, and even acquiesced that he stayed at home to take care of Tao Yu.However, Tao's father felt very complicated when he came in and out under the same roof. Although he stated that he could accept his son's other half, when the matter really came to the fore, there was always a knot in his heart.Tao Yu is not in good health now, and he is worried about letting these two live alone outside.Every time he faced Chang Zheng, Father Tao didn't know what rules to come up with, so he simply kept an indifferent attitude, and was more inclined to regard him as a doctor in his heart.

Standing outside his son's room, Father Tao hesitated for a moment, raised his hand to knock on the door, the door suddenly opened, Chang Zheng came out, saw Father Tao say good morning.

"How's the situation?" Father Tao glanced into the room. The thick curtains blocked the light, and Tao Yu seemed to be still awake.

"Woke up in the middle of the night and ate, and fell asleep again at dawn." Chang Zheng moved aside to open the door and said, "He is infusing nutrient solution, do you want to go and see?"

Father Tao walked into the room with light steps, and saw Tao Yu lying on his side, breathing evenly, as if he was fast asleep. A drip tube was connected to the elbow of his left arm, and a light blood pressure monitor was wrapped around his wrist. The display is slightly larger than the watch face.

Chang Zheng walked over and pressed the button on the blood pressure monitor, the wristband was tightened and then slowly relaxed.Tao Yu felt something in his sleep, rubbed his hands on the quilt, and was held firmly by Chang Zheng.Half a minute later, he wrote down the time and blood pressure and heart rate in his notebook.

"I record his blood pressure every once in a while." Chang Zheng explained softly, "It's unstable at night, and it gets better after dawn, but it's still low."

Father Tao frowned and said, "There is no history of low blood pressure in the family, but his mother's family has inherited high blood pressure."

"It's related to the sleeping pills left in his body." Chang Zheng closed the notebook and said, "Antidepressants also have sedative ingredients, and taking them for a long time may cause hypotension. In addition, his body is very weak, and the nutrient solution can only be used as a supplement. It is still necessary to let him Eat more."

Father Tao still couldn't figure out why Tao Yu swallowed a bottle of sleeping pills. He was worried about his health before, but now that his condition has improved, he was angry with his son's weak mind. The matter will not involve him, this child..."

Chang Zheng made a gesture, stopped the words behind him, got up and asked Father Tao to move to the living room.

"Tao Yu suffers from moderate depression." Chang Zheng said in a serious tone, "If you insist on taking the medicine for half a year, you will return to normal, but there may be relapses in the middle, especially in the early stage of the disease, the effect of the medicine has not yet fully manifested. Sometimes he can't control It's rare for him to act differently from what he thought he was doing, but it did happen two years ago when he first got sick. He probably wasn't aware at the time that he was overdosing on sleeping pills, either Whether it’s not or not, we’d better not ask him again. If he is willing to say the best, but if he doesn’t want to say it, we don’t have to keep reminding him, it will increase his pressure.”

Father Tao's brows have not been relaxed, he still can't understand how his originally cheerful son became like this.A few years ago, he might have picked him up and educated him severely to wake him up.Now that his anger has subsided as he gets older, Tao Yu has become more and more assertive in the past few years, and a father can't just take it for granted.After hearing Chang Zheng's words, Father Tao was silent for a long time and said, "The current situation at home is quite chaotic. If Xiaoyu is like this, if there is something on his mind that can't be taken care of, should he be sent to a mental hospital?"

"Tao Yu suffers from depression, not mental illness." Chang Zheng simply explained, "His condition is like a cold. He can be cured by taking medicine, but there is no guarantee that he will not have another recurrence in the future. It is not terrible to be ill, as long as he continues to take medicine, he will be cured." He can live like a normal person. Tao Yu has a lot of things on his mind, and he can appear optimistic on the outside, but in fact, he hides many things in his heart and doesn’t speak out. What we can do is try our best to understand him and give him a relaxed environment.”

Father Tao sighed. To be honest, he really didn't know what his son was thinking every day, so how could he understand it.

"I'm going to the court today. A case related to his mother will be in court. I may come back late. Thank you for taking care of him." Father Tao took out a card and put it on the table and said, "This is a meal card for the canteen. All restaurants can also be used, you can see what you like to eat, and bring some to Xiaoyu."

"I will take good care of him. This is the purpose of my coming here." Chang Zheng didn't use his meal card, got up and went to the house to find a medicine bottle, returned to the living room and handed it to Father Tao and said, "Take this with you. If you have the same situation as last time, just take one pill orally, and ask the people around you to call the emergency department."

Father Tao took the medicine bottle and looked at it, and recognized that it was written in English as aspirin.

"In fact, I have always prepared nitroglycerin. I was in a hurry to go out that day and forgot to bring it..."

"Taking nitroglycerin is risky." Chang Zheng took over the words, "It is effective for angina pectoris, but for acute myocardial infarction, you should be cautious when using nitrates. Patients prescribe this kind of medicine. Most people have difficulty distinguishing between angina pectoris and myocardial infarction when they have a heart attack. To be on the safe side, if they are not allergic to aspirin and have no gastrointestinal bleeding in the near future, I will suggest that patients take one tablet when they have a situation, and chew Swallow it for half a minute without drinking water, it will work the fastest."

Father Tao raised his eyes to look at Chang Zheng. Because of his wife's attitude, he had a bad impression of the Chang family brothers who had never met before, but these few days of contact gave him a new understanding of this young man, who has professionalism , stable personality and reassuring, in line with the expectations of most parents for their children.Thinking of his son, Father Tao couldn't help but sigh in his heart, and put away the medicine bottle.

After Father Tao left, Chang Zheng returned to the room, and the person on the bed changed his sleeping position, with one leg on the quilt, and his hair was twitching in sleep.The sun shines through the gaps in the curtains, bringing warmth and tranquility.

There was only one bottom left of the liquid in the infusion bottle, Chang Zheng took off the needle, and pressed a sterile cotton ball on Tao Yu's arm, seeing the other's eyelids move, he chuckled lightly, "Get up when you wake up. "

Tao Yu opened his eyes, seeing the other party looking at him with tenderness, a long-lost warmth rose in his heart.He moved into the bed, and Chang Zheng lay down beside him knowingly.

As if returning to the first time we were together, we were close to each other happily, without so many dissatisfaction and quarrels, and every minute we spent together was worth remembering.I don't know when, complaining and accusing them took up more and more time. The past six months was undoubtedly the coldest period in the relationship. One always said that the other cared more about the patient than the family, and the other listened too much and couldn't help but argue , argue, or simply ignore.Sometimes Chang Zheng felt that Tao Yu was making trouble out of no reason. He faced so many patients every day, and a little more effort might save a life. Seeing too much struggle on the line of life and death made him lose his patience and turn a blind eye to the trivial things in life.

It wasn't until Tao Yu left that Chang Zheng realized how much he had neglected his family. He forgot to pay the electricity bill and the natural gas bill was cut off; he didn't know to change the humidifier filter and mold grew; I didn’t go to the meeting for the operation, and as a result, I was locked out when I got home at night; I used to always have ready-made meals at home no matter how late it was, but since Tao Yu left, the freezer compartment of the refrigerator has not been opened, and the frozen meat inside has long passed the expiration date... …The two have been together for a long time, making him forget that there are still these troubles in life, forgetting that he can focus on his patients because of the other party, forgetting that the other party also has career demands, but he has to be distracted from the care of the two housework.

"Let's go back when things here are over." Holding the other's thin wrist, Chang Zheng whispered, "I will balance work and family, you are right, the operation of the fund is not dependent on individuals, Chloe is now like a family business , If you want to expand your influence, you need to rely on the team to operate, rather than individual decision-making and reputation. I was too anxious this year. Since my father said that he wanted to retire, I was under a lot of pressure and blindly pursued the time on the operating table. In fact, part of it should be reserved. Give it to junior residents, so that they can spend time at home and concentrate more on what they want to do.”

"Build a database on heart disease cases?" Tao Yu asked after hearing Chang Zheng's words, his voice a little hoarse after he hadn't spoken for a long time.

After getting a response, Chang Zheng kissed him on the top of his head, leaned half of his body on the head of the bed and continued, "I discussed with my father and the director of the team, and planned to allocate part of the fund to recruit some doctors or medical students across the country. The heart disease cases in the hospital are classified and summarized, and some patients are followed up for a long time after surgery, starting from these scattered points, expanding to various states, and then assembling into a nationwide database, which is continuously updated. This process may take five, ten, or In 20 years, if I want to reach a global scale, I may not see it in my lifetime. Therefore, the fund cannot continue in the form of a family. It needs to continuously absorb people with the same ambition to join in, and is committed to helping heart patients, especially those with William Children with heart disease who have Alzheimer's disease seek the best treatment options."

Tao Yu listened quietly. He was proud of Chang Zheng's career plan. He didn't love this man because of his rich family and respectable career. In fact, the two of them lived a simple and economical life. The work is even more difficult.There are always some people in this world whose ideals have nothing to do with power, money, or personal enjoyment. They may be too idealistic in the eyes of the world, and it is these people who are doing their best to smooth out the suffering in the corners with love.

"I hope you stay by my side." Chang Zheng rolled over and knelt on the head of the bed, held Tao Yu's ring-wearing hand, and said incoherently, "The day I first came to Beijing, I was watching you outside the intensive care unit of the hospital. You are wearing this, I am so excited. You do not answer my calls for two months, I am worried, so find your friends to understand your situation. I want to live with you, nowandforever, insicknessandinhealth, ingoodtimesandinbad, joyandinsorrow.Givemeachance, honey, willyou?"

Tao Yu almost blurted out "Yes", but he held back, raised his hand to block the tears that were about to burst into his eyes, turned his head to the other side and whispered: "One month, another month..."