Chapter 0168 – Patient in Room 3
The Third Mental Disease Rehabilitation Center was constructed twenty-three years ago, and was one of the earliest private mental disease treatment facilities in Jiujiang.
From the name, it could already be seen that they were not a regular mental illness hospital, but just a rehabilitation and convalescence center.
There are three buildings in the rehabilitation center, the first building charges are much cheaper than the regular hospital, but the accommodation environment is extremely poor.
The second building charges one-fifth more than the regular hospital, and is equipped with specialized nursing and on-duty doctors.
The third building is designed to serve a small number of patients and charges extremely high fees, several times that of the regular wards.
From the notes left behind by the dean, it could be seen that when the rehabilitation center was first established, it was completely different from later on, at that time, the third ward was not only not a closed and forbidden area, but it was also the place with the highest charges and the best environment in the entire rehabilitation center.
After about three months of operation, the rehabilitation center welcomed a special patient.
The dean recorded the scene in detail, in his mind, that day should be a turning point.
A car with a provincial license plate drove into the hospital, and two men dragged out a pregnant woman with exquisite appearance and extremely beautiful face from the back seat of the car.
The director personally received them, and only after questioning did he realize that the woman was suffering from a serious mental illness.
Out of concern for the physical safety of the pregnant woman, the director refused to let them go.
The man was not amused, and took out ten times the hospitalization fee of a high-class ward, and told the dean that he would prepay half a year’s expenses in one go.
Looking at the cash on the table, the dean and a few doctors were a bit moved, after the rehabilitation center began to operate, the general wards were overcrowded, but most of the rooms in the third ward were still empty. After all, most patients who are not short of money will still choose regular hospitals to receive treatment.
Under the doctor’s persuasion, the dean went through the hospitalization procedures for the pregnant woman and arranged her in the third room of the third disease building.
Determine the pregnant woman settled in, the man left his phone number to the doctor, claiming to be the husband of the pregnant woman, but when the dean wanted to see the two marriage certificate, the man could not take out.
After receiving the money, the matter has been finalized, even if the dean wants to back out can not, all he can do is to take good care of the pregnant woman.
After the doctor diagnosed, the pregnant woman is indeed suffering from mental illness, is very typical of the symptoms of bipolar disorder, from will not communicate with people, sometimes alone crying, sometimes rage, smash all the things you see, and will even go to hurt themselves.
The hospital had wrapped the furniture in room three in thick cotton to protect her.
The woman’s condition was very unstable, and because she was pregnant with a child, most of the medicines could not be used, and the doctors could only work shifts to psychologically counsel her.
After more than three months like this, as the due date approached, the dean specifically found a few nurses to guard the ward twenty-four hours a day.
I don’t know whether it was because the imminent birth of the child had awakened the mad woman’s motherhood, or whether the doctor’s treatment had an effect.
The pregnant woman no longer went crazy, and most of the time she wouldn’t let anyone get close to her, just touching her stomach and sitting alone on the low hospital bed, talking to herself.
Four months later, the baby was born, and the pregnant woman’s condition improved significantly.
The dean and the doctors of the rehabilitation center were relieved and called the pregnant woman’s husband on the same day, but after several calls in a row, no one answered.
They had a bad feeling in their hearts and specifically went to check the man’s ID card, only to find that all the documents are fake.
The director and the doctor discussed the matter and decided that they would call the police when the money paid in advance had been spent and if the man hadn’t come over yet. Considering the woman’s condition, they didn’t tell the woman about it.
The pregnant woman did not know the news, after the birth of her child, she seemed to regain hope in life, began to actively cooperate with the treatment, and from time to time, she would take the initiative to ask for information about her husband, she felt that after she recovered from the disease, her husband would come to pick her up.
However, after waiting for half a year and spending all the hospital fees in advance, the man seemed to have disappeared and never showed up again.
Gradually, different voices appeared in the hospital, some doctors and nurses suggested that the pregnant woman should be sent away, as it was time-consuming and laborious to take care of a big and small woman.
The director of the hospital said to wait a little longer, but the nurse who took care of the woman’s daily life inadvertently blurted out.
The woman asks to speak to her husband on the phone, but the cold, synthesized voice on the other side of the microphone says that the number is no longer in service.
The woman seems to have made a deal with the man before she was sent to the rehab center for treatment, and now that the deal has been broken, the woman, who is already sick, has become even worse.
She begins to be hostile to those around her, and it’s like she’s lost in a dark labyrinth that she can’t get out of.
To prevent the offending woman from harming the newborn, the doctors separated her from the baby.
The woman was too crazy to communicate, and the baby was still small, so the hospital had no choice but to raise it on her behalf.
They were also actively treating the woman, trying to get the man’s information through the woman so that he could make up for the follow-up treatment and hospitalization costs.
No one could have imagined that this treatment would take three years, and that the woman’s baby would grow up in a mental hospital, learning to talk and walk in an institution full of crazy people.
Zero to three years old is known as infancy, the most efficient period of learning in a person’s life, and a critical period for forming basic perceptions of things.
It was in this twisted and sickly environment that the woman’s child experienced its three most important years.
The money paid in advance had been spent long ago, the doctors and nurses were now sort of volunteering to take care of them, one day or two days were fine, but as time went on, more and more people began to complain, and even the way they looked at that child became complicated.
Crazy mother living in the ward, the child during these three years has done the most a thing is, was picked up by the doctors and nurses, along the window on the door of the third ward, through the door panel to see the woman inside.
Over time, after the child learned to walk, he would sometimes run outside Ward 3 by himself and look at the door of the ward, which was several times his height.
Day by day, the world was full of color for children of his age with their families.
The world in this child’s eyes, however, was somewhat distorted, with cold white tones occupying most of his memories, and gradually he developed some behaviors that were different from those of ordinary children.
Without realizing it, Chen Ge flipped to the end, and the content on the white paper was like the dean’s private diary, “This child is even more terrifying than what I experienced as a child.”
He had thought that playing with human head models and dismantling plastic bones when he was a child was already excessive enough, but he didn’t realize that there were even more miserable ones than his own.
Putting down the white paper, Chen Ge looked at the unsent letters.
The envelopes were not stamped, unsigned, and looked yellowed and worn out, so they should have been written many years ago and never sent out.
In chronological order, Chen Ge opened the letters one by one.
The first letter was written twenty years ago, when the woman’s child was only two years old.
”Dr. Chen, this is the first time I’ve seen such a smart child, I can’t imagine that he learns everything so quickly.”
”Born in a place neglected by the normal world, living in a sick environment, should I send him away?”
”This child will definitely be a genius when he grows up, but all his current behavior makes me feel uneasy.”
”Ever since he learned to talk, he’s been like his mother, always enjoying talking to himself. No, it feels more like he’s communicating with something we can’t see.”
”The doctors and duty nurses are so busy that no one has taught him to talk except me, but I always hear strange words coming out of his mouth.”
”Did he learn it himself by eavesdropping on doctors and patients? Or is something teaching him?”
”I’m a materialist, but what’s happening to this boy has shaken me a bit… Rumor has it that in infancy, children can see things that adults can’t… Could all this be true?”