Hearing this, Zhang Zian can roughly guess what will happen next.
Guo Dongyue is a highly educated person, and the professional quality of the designer requires him to be careful. He comforted his mother that night, but he never fell asleep after hanging up the phone. The next day, he returned to China by plane, went directly to his mother's house, and took her to the hospital for examination. Guo's mother resisted very much, saying that she was in good health and shouldn't waste the money. In the end, Guo Dongyue almost coaxed her to the hospital.
After running to several hospitals to no avail, he was finally diagnosed with Alzheimer's syndrome in an authoritative hospital. Although it is only in the early stage, some symptoms have gradually become obvious.
Guo Dongyue blamed himself, why didn't he notice it earlier? He searched the Internet for some knowledge about this disease. Although the cause is unknown, there is evidence that widowed, lonely and depressed elderly people tend to have a higher incidence.
His father died young and he was raised almost entirely by his mother. He grew up slowly, left home to go to university, and then went abroad to study. After working, he rented a house near the company to live by himself. In addition, he often traveled on business. Go home once.
In the process of working hard for work and career, he didn't consider his mother's feeling of being alone at all. He even felt impatient when he received a call from his mother to report her safety, and would hang up after a few words. His mother has retired. Because of her demure personality, she doesn’t like to hang out with relatives and has no special hobbies. She doesn’t get along with the aunts in the neighborhood who dance in square dances all day long. Looking back now, he can’t imagine how his mother spent these years. …
Every time his mother called to report her safety when he was on a business trip, he always dealt with it casually, but never asked how his mother was doing... Of course, if it was just a headache, even if he asked, my mother would definitely hide it .
Guo's mother didn't know what disease she had, but thought that Guo Dongyue was worrying about and wasting money blindly. Patients with Abenzheimer's disease were no different from normal people most of the time in the early stage of the disease, let alone Guo's mother herself. Abnormalities, even in the eyes of others, are normal, and even the hospital is difficult to diagnose.
Guo Dongyue hired a full-time nanny for his mother, because it is easy to get lost outside when the disease occurs and cannot be found home. Guo's mother was used to living alone, and a stranger suddenly came to the family, and she was very uncomfortable. She thought it was a waste of money, her son was growing up, it was time to consider saving money for marriage, although Guo Dongyue earned a lot, no one thought it was too much money. Even so, she still couldn't handle her son, so she had to agree to let the nanny take care of her.
The nanny was hired by Guo Dongyue at a high price. Needless to say, her professional quality and ability, she got along well with Guo's mother. However, as Guo's mother's condition worsened, her temper became more and more eccentric and withdrawn. When she got sick, she would suspect that the nanny was a thief who quietly entered the house, and she even reported to the police. Sometimes the nanny went out to buy groceries, and in order to prevent her from leaving home, she would lock her in the house. She suspected that some bad person had kidnapped her, and called the police again... After going back and forth, the police were bothered, and the nanny resigned several times. .
Many people persuaded Guo Dongyue to send her to an apartment for the elderly, and it would not be a problem if it went on like this. He did not agree anyway, and did not want to send his mother to that place full of strangers, because when his mother was not sick, she was exactly the same as a normal person. Don't want to associate her with the word "patient". Sometimes when he came home, he would see his mother wearing glasses and sitting on the rocking chair in the living room reading the newspaper, feeling in a daze that more than ten years were but a blink of an eye.
Until one time, his mother raised her eyes from the newspaper and smiled at him gently, and he responded with a smile, thinking that her complexion was ruddy and her complexion was very good, her eyes were shining brightly, as if she had been several years younger. His heart was filled with hope, maybe a miracle happened, and the medicine relieved the condition
She smiled and asked curiously: "You look familiar, may I ask who are you looking for? The child's father hasn't come back yet, why don't you wait?"
Guo Dongyue had already forgotten what happened after that, when he came to his senses, he was woken up by a young man in a bartender costume who shook him and told him that the bar was closing.
Guo's mother's condition gradually worsened, and she spent less and less time awake. She often forgot what to do after standing up, and stood there in a daze, even forgetting to sit down. Her memory is like a string of broken pearl necklaces, the string is inexplicably missing, and the remaining pearls are lost one by one.
She still remembers Guo Dongyue and can recognize him occasionally, but most of the time she only remembers him in high school, that is her pride. She would anxiously ask for food at 11:00 am and 5:00 pm, saying that the child was about to leave school, and it was the time when the study was the most tiring and the body was growing, so she couldn't be hungry anyway.
Guo Dongyue would try to explain to her at the beginning, saying that I am Dongyue, your son, and I have grown up. At first, after painstaking efforts, she could still recall, smiled at him, and asked how the work was going, was it hard work? As time went on, the explanation paled, and the expression on her face grew flatter, showing obvious impatience, and even pushed him away with her hands at one point, stood up and screamed don't pretend to be my son...
She stood like this for two minutes, the anger on her face disappeared, she returned to calmness, and smiled to Guo Dongyue who was pushed aside: "You sit down for a while, the weather is cold, I will go find my son's autumn and winter clothes... "
From that day on, Guo Dongyue knew that he had disappeared from her memory forever after college. It's not her fault, because since he went to college, the connection with her has become weak. This is retribution, this must be retribution.
He knew very well that this was just the beginning, and she would irreversibly forget him in high school, junior high school, and elementary school, just like an old photo that is fading.
When she forgets everything, the fire of life will be extinguished.
Unknowingly, the shop was completely silent. Lao Cha turned off the TV, Fina stopped taking a nap, Xing Hai squatted aside, letting the kittens play and play. Even Richard, who was chattering all day long, didn't intervene, only occasionally scratching the feathers on his chest. Everyone was listening to Guo Dongyue's storytelling, only Snow Lion was still obsessively staring at Fina's tail, ignoring everything around him.
Guo Dongyue's tone was very calm, as if he was talking about something that had nothing to do with him, but Zhang Zian could feel the pain hidden under this calmness.