In the ward here, there are two rows of identical beds. Besides Mrs. Li, there is another 1 1 vegetable. Most of them are elderly people over 60 years old. Due to emaciation, their hair is shaved and their cheekbones are prominent. At first glance, it is difficult to tell the gender. The cut throat was covered with wet gauze, and muddy phlegm came from one of the beds.
Among them, some people have suffered brain trauma because of car accidents, or sudden cerebral hemorrhage and cerebral infarction. Some people have had craniotomy with large bone flap, and their heads seem to have been gouged out and sunken inward. These accidents and diseases make them sleep here and become "unconscious" people with gastric tubes, urinary tubes and gas cutting tubes. In medicine, they are defined as vegetative.
? No one will say "uncomfortable", and any abnormality will only fluctuate in digital form and be displayed on the ECG monitor. Time stands still here. Patients remain in one position until the next time someone helps them turn over.
In this "sleeping" room, the slightest sound is particularly clear-tinkling, bowls full of liquid food touch together; "Bang, bang", the same rhythm as the drum, is that the nurse slaps the back of the vegetative person; "Boo-hoo", this is a thin tube that extends into the air incision to suck out phlegm. When the nurse stopped working and rested, the room was quiet again, and the faint hum of the inflatable valve of the bedsore-proof mattress slowly appeared.
Day and night belong only to plants and wild cats in the front yard. Ward windows face south, sunny, and eight overhead lights alternate to keep the room bright for 24 hours. Vegetarians don't need light, but nurses who take turns on duty need to monitor the patient's condition at any time and keep the light bright at all times, so as to take care of people in bed.
The courtyard of the vegetative care center is located in Shengshuitou Village, Miyun, Beijing. It was originally a special health training base. After being idle for more than a year, neurosurgeons in Miyun District Hospital rented it for a long time. The equipment in the open-air yard has fallen off paint and rusted, and there is no sign of blood here. Everything is silent. The east-west bungalow became the main building and three wards. Since 20 19, 27 beds have been put into use one after another, and the vegetative people on the beds are taken care of by the dean Xiang Jiuda and the young nurses.
? Family members will often visit at first, and then as time goes by, the number will be less and less, and even it is time to go through the death formalities.