Selected essays

My mother-in-law has been coughing for a long time. I have been coughing since last winter.

The old man is very thoughtful. I called back several times, but I didn't listen to her. This time I was really tortured to the last straw, so I chanted on the phone. He also said that when Mr. Wang called back earlier, he talked to Mr. Wang and asked him to help him understand what happened online.

Mr. Wang has been so busy recently that he must have forgotten. After all, my mother-in-law is a straight-tempered person, and I can't help but feel a resentment in my heart. Although the girl cried loudly, my daughter-in-law for many years was still a Hakka and didn't think of me until the end.

My mother-in-law always calls me her girl.

Complaining is complaining. Still worried. Love me, love my dog, not to mention my mother-in-law? Nature is also my other mother.

Mother-in-law can't read, let alone medical knowledge. I was asked about my illness and medication on the phone. As a result, I was anxious like a cat on hot bricks at this end, but she talked selfishly at that end and didn't get to the point. Although I study medicine, I still can't make an accurate judgment.

Finally, my mother-in-law said that she heard people say that there was a person like her everywhere, and finally went to a big hospital for examination, and it was in the late stage of esophageal cancer. She doesn't believe that she will get this disease. She said that she had calculated with the fortune teller that she was eighty or ninety years old.

There seems to be optimism and openness in the speech. But I saw her vanity. Without fear, she would never tell me this. People are always like this. The more they show that they don't care about anything, the more they care about something.

In the mind a Gordon. After all, people in their sixties have been coughing for such a long time, which really deserves attention. My mother-in-law was invited to my home during the May Day holiday, and I took her to the hospital for examination and treatment. Mother-in-law also said that the family can't leave, and my sister may go to the construction site in Henan on holiday and take care of the children at home.

I'm going to buy some medicine and send it back by express. Still uneasy, my heart seems to be mentioned in my throat by an invisible rope. My husband is away all the year round. What if anything happens to mother-in-law? I finally decided to take my son back. I had to see for myself to make me feel at ease. My son didn't want to go back, so he worked with him for a long time and finally reluctantly agreed.

I am in a hurry to buy tickets, medicine and things.

My mother-in-law has high blood pressure. She bought an electronic sphygmomanometer in her early years and taught her many times. She still doesn't know how to use it when she is alone. My nephew knows how to use it, but how can a primary school child have the mind and wisdom to supervise and monitor it? Simply bring a mercury sphygmomanometer and stethoscope, and it is convenient and more accurate to measure the blood pressure of two old people when they go back.

Everything is ready. Set out. It was dusty all the way. My brother drove to the station to meet us.

My brother is a son-in-law. They bought a house in the city. Usually, I am busy with my sister at the construction site contracted outside or the sheep farm opened near my hometown. My father-in-law and mother-in-law are separated. My father-in-law opened a small shop in his hometown to look after the house and serve the garden. My mother-in-law followed her to the city, took care of my nephew's eating and drinking Lazar, and cleaned the house.

When I arrived at my sister's house, my mother-in-law was busy cooking lunch with her sister in the kitchen. She was overjoyed when she saw us come in. She grabbed her son's hand and sighed: God, I haven't seen you for months, and I've grown a lot!

Mother-in-law's spirit looks good, her weight has not lost, and her heart is a little relaxed. My mother-in-law urged my sister to show me the film and the test results. That was a chest X-ray taken at the Municipal People's Hospital. It seems that the lung texture is slightly thicker, and no other obvious abnormalities are found. The description of laryngoscope is only slight inflammation of pharynx. These are almost negligible.

Mother-in-law is sitting on the sofa, coughing intermittently. She coughs day and night. She can't breathe when she has an attack. She also felt sick and retched, as if something was stuck in her throat, which made her feel uncomfortable. She particularly emphasized that when you came back from the Spring Festival, I was coughing, wasn't I? That's it.

We did go back for a few days during the Spring Festival. At that time, my mother-in-law was infusion in the village clinic, saying that she had a cold and coughed. Busy visiting relatives and friends to catch people's feelings, I didn't pay much attention. I only remember watching my mother-in-law cook one day, and the fumes made her cough red. I also told my husband that the kitchen in my hometown must be equipped with an exhaust fan, otherwise the fumes will not be discharged, which will hurt the chef's respiratory system. On her 60th birthday, my cousin accompanied her mother-in-law to the village clinic for infusion. She saw a doctor and used penicillin, ribavirin and levofloxacin. They are all peers, and it is not good to evaluate whether the medication is reasonable or not. Mr. Earp paid for another six days, just one course of treatment.

My mother-in-law told me what to do and left it in the village for ten days, which had no effect at all. Later, my nephew went to school, and my mother-in-law followed her back to the city. She lost a few days in the clinic downstairs and had a bad cough. My sister took it to the people's hospital for examination, took a chest X-ray and had a laryngoscope. The doctor said it was inflammation and lost "cephalosporin" for a few days. My mother-in-law thought the medicine prescribed by the hospital was too expensive, so she went to the clinic and continued to lose for a while, but it still didn't work. Looking for remedies, I ate roxithromycin and licorice tablets, drank syrup, stewed pears with rock sugar, massaged my back and baked them with electricity ... I haven't stopped taking drugs for half a year. In my mother-in-law's words, I take more medicine than meals, that is, I cough up my heart and lungs.

Is it just pharyngitis and bronchitis? Why is the treatment less than half a year ineffective? I'm confused. Anti-inflammatory drugs are not symptomatic? According to my mother-in-law, various anti-inflammatory drugs are widely used, which should have certain effects.

I can't figure it out at the moment. In view of the excessive use of antibiotics and no obvious inflammatory lesions, I asked my mother-in-law to stop the medicine at hand and drink the Chinese patent medicine "Lily Gujin Pill" that I brought back to nourish yin, moisten the lungs, resolve phlegm and relieve cough, and do some conditioning. When you have a bad cough, drink a cover of codeine phosphate syrup for symptomatic treatment. Mother-in-law is also like an obedient child. As I said, she didn't miss a meal.

When I took my mother-in-law's blood pressure, I suddenly remembered a possibility. Could it be a dry cough caused by antihypertensive drugs?

My mother-in-law has found high blood pressure for several years. I used to eat the "nifedipine sustained-release tablets" I sent back. Later, when I went home, I found that the medicine had expired. I didn't know until I asked. She didn't follow the instructions at all. She only took one tablet when she felt sick, and didn't eat it until she felt sick. So, after calculating the time, there was a pile of medicine left, all of which expired.

I earnestly advised my mother-in-law to take medicine on time, in quantity and at regular intervals, try to pick up the language she knows and communicate with her, and describe people with hypertension to her. Blood vessels are like plastic water pipes that are frozen and brittle in winter. If the medication is irregular, the blood pressure will fluctuate greatly, and even jump to a level much higher than the original blood pressure. When the water pressure is high, the frozen plastic water pipe will burst at the weak point. Similarly, when blood pressure fluctuates greatly, blood vessels will burst.

In order to take medicine, I also lost my temper with my mother-in-law: your body is your own. If you don't listen, you'll have a stroke or something. Who will wait on you when you are collapsed in bed?

My mother-in-law may have listened, insisted on taking the medicine for a while, and then told me not to buy nifedipine again, saying that it was difficult to get up and go to the toilet after taking it. I have never seen such a side effect in clinic, but since she felt uncomfortable after eating it, and no one who understood it followed the observation and supervision, she had to stop.

Said it was for another medicine, but my mother-in-law said no. They bought another medicine in the drugstore and tested it in the clinic downstairs. The blood pressure was well controlled. Ask what medicine it is. She said a few dollars a bottle. I'm not sure what medicine it is at present. Is it "apocynum venetum"? She said that the people in the drugstore seemed to say so.

The antihypertensive drug my mother-in-law took was "Apocynum venetum", which took root in my mind.

Now my mother-in-law's dry cough is so stubborn that I suddenly become alert. Is it apocynum venetum? When I came back from the Spring Festival, everyone was in a daze, but I neglected to check the medicine my mother-in-law took. Begging her mother-in-law to find out the antihypertensive drugs quickly. Let me have a look.

My mother-in-law brought a small bottle. As soon as I saw it, I felt guilty and blamed myself, and suddenly the corners of my chest and the gullies in my mind were full. Actually, it is the most common and cheapest "Captopril", not even "Capcom"! Clinical observation shows that many people take this kind of "captopril", which causes unexplained severe cough. If I saw the medicine my mother-in-law took, would she still suffer for so long?

Tell my mother-in-law to stop taking this medicine. It can cause a severe cough. It may cause a dry cough for so long. My mother-in-law hesitated for a long time before throwing it into the trash can without pity. I know. She's upset. Mother-in-law is made by hard times and has always been extremely frugal.

Then take my mother-in-law to the drugstore to buy antihypertensive drugs. Cars are coming and going on the road, crowds are surging, and two-wheeled motorcycles and three-wheeled manpower are "numb" and rampaging, with no rules. Subconsciously grab her mother-in-law's hand and pull her to cross the road. What I hold in my hand is my mother-in-law's hand, which has been honed and rough in the river of years, and the joints are thick and prominent, but what flows in my heart is a kind of warmth that I ignore or deliberately avoid, the warmth of love and the warmth of harmony.

For so many years, the relationship with my mother-in-law has been described as "respecting each other as guests". Although the context and object are inappropriate, the meaning is appropriate. I never dare to be too presumptuous, too intimate or too casual in front of her. She doesn't treat me like a sister. She can say whatever she wants and scold whenever she wants. We didn't have a big conflict, and we were always polite and stumbling. This may also be a true portrayal of many mother-in-law and daughter-in-law relationships.

An instinctive grasp brought unexpected results. I met my mother-in-law, a sister who often plays together. My mother-in-law praised this as my girl. I heard that I have a bad cough. Come back and give me medicine. This is not, saying that the antihypertensive drugs I take will cause a cough, and took me to buy medicine! I was embarrassed to hear the man muttering, but my mother-in-law's back was straighter than before.

What medicine should I change for my mother-in-law? I've thought a lot. Antihypertensive drugs like "captopril" may cause cough and are not easy to use again; A antihypertensive drug similar to nifedipine, she said that if she ate too much uncomfortable nocturia, she believed it, and it was not good to use it again; Although she doesn't have diabetes, there is no problem with blood test of renal function, but she has frequent nocturia and doesn't need diuretics. ...

I thought about it and finally decided to try "valsartan". According to the mother-in-law's blood pressure level, it is very convenient to eat only one tablet every morning; Moreover, this medicine is suitable for all kinds of hypertension, and has a protective effect on important organs such as heart, brain and kidney, and does not affect the levels of blood lipid, blood sugar and uric acid. More importantly, the sudden withdrawal of drugs will not cause blood pressure "rebound" or other side effects, which is very important for people whose mother-in-law is not very obedient. Still a little worried. Valsartan also has side effects of cough, but the incidence is much lower than that of captopril, which is often ignored by clinicians.

Better medicine won't be cheap. My mother-in-law even lost a bottle of "Captopril". Will she take Cheng Gui's medicine? There are several manufacturers of "Valsartan" in pharmacies, and the price difference is quite large. Finally, I gave up Dai Wen made by Beijing Novartis Company and chose a box with a moderate price of more than 30 yuan, a box of 14 capsules, and 70 yuan for one month. This figure is not big, so I think my mother-in-law can accept it and stick to it.

Paid for two boxes. When paying, my mother-in-law scrambled to pay. When she saw that it cost more than 70 yuan, she couldn't help exclaiming, what medicine did you buy for me? How expensive! I explained to her that two boxes can be eaten for almost a month, more than two yuan a day, which is not expensive at all. In front of outsiders, my mother-in-law is a proud person and has no more words.

Back home, my mother-in-law once again talked about the price of medicine. This medicine is too expensive. I want to take cheap medicine. You see, I used to eat more than one yuan a bottle, a whole hundred. At first, I advised her that the medicine was cheap, but you felt uncomfortable after taking it. Besides, what can I do with more than two dollars? Eating noodles alone is not enough. Not that we can't afford more than two dollars a day. Only when you are in good health can we earn peace of mind by earning money outside.

Mother-in-law rubbed the medicine box, but it was still too expensive to open it. I am a person who doesn't like to explain, and now I have nothing to say, so I keep silent. I didn't say anything and my mother-in-law couldn't say anything. I always open the box and eat one.

I don't know if the antihypertensive drug was stopped and replaced correctly, or if the Chinese patent medicine I brought back worked. After two days, my mother-in-law's cough was obviously sparse. Even if I fry a few cauldrons of fried rice to make rice tea in the kitchen, I just cough a few times, but I don't cough up again, and I don't blush and have a thick neck.

I'm very pleased. You can safely set foot on your way home.

My brother and sister have already driven to the construction site in Henan. We took a taxi to the station. In the car, I took time to tell my mother-in-law again: don't drink that syrup as long as you don't cough badly (drinking too much will have unexpected side effects such as dependence, but I am still worried); The pills will continue to be taken for a while; Drink a antihypertensive drug on an empty stomach every morning, don't forget; Do not take tea, fruit juice, vegetable soup and other drugs; The antihypertensive drugs have been changed. I remember taking my blood pressure several times recently. If your blood pressure is bad, go to the clinic downstairs. If you can take the usual medicine, buy it when you go back and send it back by express delivery. ...

My mother-in-law promised one by one. It's just that I didn't agree when the courier came back to get the medicine. My cough has gone away, so don't buy any more medicine. That antihypertensive drug is too expensive, so don't buy it. I'll buy cheap medicine myself.

At this time, I still feel that the medicine is expensive and I can't help being angry. I can't help but say grumpily, is your health more important or money more important? If the cheap medicine is useful after you take it, do you need me to call back? If you don't listen, I don't care anymore. ...

Mother-in-law and nephew get off at the gym to fly kites. After a long walk, the taxi driver suddenly asked me, is it your mother? I habitually blurted out that she was a bitch. The driver smacked his lips, alas, I have never seen such an easy-going mother-in-law!

I don't know if the driver is really boasting or saying irony.

Care is chaos. When you are confused, you forget to be reserved and forget your troubles. Chaos reveals the heart and truth.

Suddenly realized that unconsciously, I get along with my mother-in-law, much like my mother who gave birth to me and raised me, with almost the same tone and attitude.

Perhaps, just like choosing medicine for doctors, there are choices for mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. With true love and tolerance, the hardest road will become the brightest smooth road.