see you in spring

Chapter 38 It’s hard to protect yourself [-]

While Jia Lie and her daughter were sleeping soundly in the next room, Dongqing was woken up by her own fast heartbeat.

He wiped the sweat from his forehead and looked at the sports watch on his hand. It was about five o'clock in the morning. Below the time was his heartbeat, which was beating more than 120 times per minute.

He was so frightened that he slowly pushed himself up, wanting to sit up and take a good test. Unexpectedly, his limbs ached, he was trembling with chills, and waves of nausea and headaches came over him. He was so flustered that he felt shaken even while sitting. Shaky, unable to sit still.

He didn't know what was wrong with him. The high fever had obviously subsided before going to bed last night, but he didn't expect it to get worse at this time. Moreover, symptoms such as rapid heartbeat, headache and nausea that were not there before also appeared.

Dongqing felt hot all over her body, and she irritably put the mercury thermometer into her armpit. After 2 minutes, she took it out and saw: 38 degrees eight.

Dongqing wanted to cry, but she couldn't get better after this repeated. Could it be that she really contracted pneumonia?

When people are sick, their willpower is already relatively weak. Once pessimism sets in, they can no longer stop the car.

He turned on his phone, and it was filled with reports about how dangerous pneumonia was and how many people had died due to pneumonia in various places. The entire Internet was immersed in an unknown pessimism and fear.

If Dongqing still had hope before, after these two repetitions, he no longer dared to take chances.Thinking of yesterday, she said that she would give her daughter a New Year's red envelope this morning, make her delicious food, and spend a good time with her, but now... Dongqing couldn't help but blush.

Dongqing gritted her teeth and took out a pen and paper, thinking that while she was still awake, she could write her suicide note first, so that she could at least explain it to her parents and wife.To put it bluntly, even if it is not used, it is still nip in the bud.

After writing the suicide note, Dongqing put it in the first drawer of the bedside table with a heavy heart.He turned on his phone and looked at the video taken when the family of three took a rare trip to the beach together.In the video, the daughter was wearing a one-piece swimsuit, holding a swimming ring, laughing and shouting "Daddy, Daddy" on the beach. Dongqing laughed while wiping her tears.

His daughter's tender voice rekindled his hope. Even if he really contracted pneumonia, news reports also said that the most effective way to deal with pneumonia is one's own immunity.

Immunity is formed by the accumulation of daily behaviors, including diet, daily life, and thoughts.The state of the body is constructed from these bits and pieces. "Raise a soldier for a thousand days, use it for a while", these trivial skills are usually invisible, but they can be reflected at the most critical moment.

Although Dongqing has gained a lot of weight since becoming a stay-at-home husband, he still pays attention to his family's healthy diet and daily life for the sake of his children's growth.He asked himself that he usually did a good job in these tasks, and his body's immunity should not be too bad. For the sake of his family and his daughter, he must not give up so easily.

At this time, Dongqing's mouth was dry. She stood up holding the head of the bed and wanted to get the water glass on the table. Unexpectedly, when she reached out to drag the glass over, she touched the mercury thermometer on the side of the table and the thermometer rolled a few times. It fell directly from the table to the floor tiles and broke into pieces.

Holly was dumbfounded. Not only might she contract pneumonia, but she might also suffer from mercury poisoning.

He looked at the time. It was just after 06:30, and neither Jia Lie nor the child woke up yet.Even if Jia Lie woke up, he would not dare to ask her to come in.He can only deal with these troubles now.

He knew that when breaking a mercury thermometer, one should not rush to wipe the mercury with a mop or rag, as this would scatter the scattered mercury beads.The larger the surface area of ​​finely ground mercury beads, the easier and faster it is to evaporate. Therefore, if treated in this way, the indoor air will quickly reach a higher level of mercury concentration, and then enter the respiratory tract, causing mercury absorption and poisoning.

Dongqing endured the discomfort, covering her nose with one hand, and using the other hand to get the disposable gloves and masks that Dongqing had put in the cabinet.After putting it on, he quickly opened the windows in the house to ventilate it to prevent mercury poisoning.

After the windows were opened, Dongqing, who was sweating before, was hit by the cold wind and sneezed from the cold.Sniffing his nose, he hurriedly found a down jacket in the closet and put it on. He didn't know whether it was the effect of a large amount of cold air coming in to take a breath, or because the adrenaline surged in him because of this sudden incident. He felt that he was more dizzy than before. Shen Shen himself is much more awake and his condition is much better.

The room was ventilated. Dongqing quickly tore up a piece of smooth white paper used by her daughter to make paper cuts and collected the metal mercury beads scattered on the ground. These things needed to be placed in a sealed place. He glanced at Jia Lie and gave He served the porridge in a sealed lunch box, quickly poured out the porridge, poured the metal mercury beads into the lunch box, and then closed the lid.

After doing this, Dongqing carefully checked the ground again to make sure that there were no mercury beads. Then he breathed a sigh of relief and put the lunch box in the drawer and locked it.This thing cannot be touched by family members, let alone thrown away casually. It must be sent to a specialized sanitation agency for treatment. But in this situation, there is no way to send it out at all, so it can only be locked up first.

After doing this, Dongqing still couldn't relax his vigilance. The mercury fell on the floor tiles. Although he had finished picking it up, the locations where the mercury fell on the floor tiles and the extremely small residual mercury pollution that he could not see still posed a threat. Normally, They said sulfur powder should be sprinkled on top to reduce its toxicity before flushing it down the drain.But there was no sulfur powder at home at this time. He had heard before that using raw egg whites to cover residual mercury and contaminated ground could also reduce toxicity.

The eggs were in the refrigerator, but Holly couldn't leave the room.He looked out the window. Although it was already seven o'clock, the light was late in winter, so it was only dimly lit at this time.Jia Lie hasn't gotten up yet. He knows that she has been worried about not sleeping well these past few days. Last night, because of his improvement, she was able to sleep well.

In order not to get close to the polluted ground, Dongqing stood by the window. The temperature outside was more than ten degrees below zero, which had already squeezed out the heating in the house. He wore two pairs of thick socks and a down jacket, but he was still so cold that his teeth chattered.Even so, he couldn't bear to wake Jia Lie, because after today, she would probably have trouble sleeping again.

(End of this chapter)