During the night shift, Zhao Xiaobo had to carry his mother to the toilet toilet every 2 hours. Visual China
Zhao Xiaobo, 5, is a night nurse who needs to care for 40 disabled and semi-disabled elderly people at night. Because his 73-year-old mother, who was dependent on him, had been paralyzed for many years, in order to facilitate the care of his mother, under the arrangement of the unit, he went to work every day to take his mother to the empty bed in the medical and nursing center and take care of her together...
Every day before leaving for work, Zhao Xiaobo had to pick up his mother and put her on the sofa, and feed some pumpkin paste that her mother loved to eat, or some liquid food. Visual China
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Work
At 6:30 p.m. on September 28, in a room on the second floor of a building in Huiyuan Community, Linwei District, Weinan, Shaanxi Province, the 73-year-old mother repeatedly shouted "Wave! wave! wave! Zhao Xiaobo smiled and said, "Now that I go to work, she is more anxious than me, and she will urge me like this as soon as the time comes." ”
Zhao Xiaobo comforted his mother lying on the sofa with words while packing his luggage. He packed dinner and hot water in his backpack, put his backpack on his back, picked up another blanket, went downstairs and put it on the car, then came back and picked up his mother, carefully walked down the 30 steps on two floors, put her in the back seat of the driver, and then covered her with a blanket.
Zhao Xiaobo carried his paralyzed mother downstairs from home to the car in front of the door, he squatted on the ground, put his mother flat on his legs, and then freed his hands to take the key to open the car door.
It is only more than a kilometer from home to Duqiao Community Hospital, and even the evening peak takes only more than ten minutes.
Zhao Xiaobo worked on the sixth floor of the hospital, after taking the elevator to the sixth floor, he pushed his mother into a standard room ward, and after greeting an old woman who was paralyzed in the same room, he carried his mother to an empty bed, covered the blanket, took out the iPad in his pocket, found a drama, opened it and put it on the bedside table that his mother could easily see.
On the sixth floor are 40 disabled and semi-disabled elderly people. At 7 p.m., Zhao Xiaobo began to assist the nurses on the day shift, from the activity room, rehabilitation room or aisle, pushing the elderly in wheelchairs into their respective rooms, or hugging or helping them to the bed, washing up, taking off their coats and changing into pajamas, and helping them to lie on the bed.
At 19:00, Zhao Xiaobo, who took his mother to work, parked the car on the side of the road in a temporary free parking space at night, and then carried his mother to a wheelchair to push the unit. Visual China
At 8 p.m., Zhao Xiaobo began the first round of the room, checking the diapers of the elderly one by one, changing them immediately if they had urine and defecation, and scrubbing the body, and some bed sheets were also wet, and they needed to change clean sheets.
Including single rooms and the room where the mother is located, a total of more than 20 wards, a round of inspection takes about 65 minutes, every night shift, Zhao Xiaobo to patrol 4 rounds, to the elderly about 160 times to turn over. Every night from 10 to 11 o'clock patrol is the busiest, in addition to the daily change of diapers, clean up the body, change the sheets, some elderly people will frequently press the alarm button at the head of the bed, there is no reason, is to hope that there is someone around to take care of.
There is an old man who will be delirious at night, and when Zhao Xiaobo turns him over, he will often be beaten by the old man, and Zhao Xiaobo will comfort him while catching the punch with a thick position of back muscle.
The disabled old man has to change the diaper four times a night, the old man defecates on the body, Zhao Xiaobo should carefully scrub it clean, change the diaper is not wet, and also need to change the sheets and bedding.
Zhao Xiaobo said that some of these elderly people were former colleagues of his father, and some were the parents of classmates, and he felt that taking care of these elderly people was no different from his mother.
Between inspections, Zhao Xiaobo would rest for a while on a folding bed that came with his mother's room. In addition, from 11 p.m. to 2 a.m. the next day, Zhao Xiaobo can sleep for more than two hours while the old people are asleep.
At 6:30 a.m. the next morning, five or six day-shift nurses arrived, and Zhao Xiaobo carried his mother from the bed to a chair in advance and cleaned up the bed.
At 7 o'clock, Zhao Xiaobo put his mother in a wheelchair on time and then left work.
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accidentally
Zhao Xiaobo was originally a state-owned enterprise in Weinan City, due to poor unit efficiency, more than ten years ago, resigned to a water enterprise in Tianjin to be responsible for water and reclaimed water pipeline engineering and management, and also participated in the construction of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project.
In 2012, Zhao Xiaobo's mother was paralyzed by an illness, and his brother, who was 3 years older than him, was unable to take care of his mother due to a leg disability at work injury many years ago. The family hired an aunt to help care for the elderly during the day, and in the morning and evening, the 67-year-old father took care of him alone.
Zhao Xiaobo carried his mother to the empty bed in the medical center, covered the quilt, turned on the drama program stored on the tablet, and then began to work. Visual China
One night in August 2016, my father died after accidentally falling while assisting my mother on the toilet, and my mother's illness worsened from the fall.
Zhao Xiaobo rushed back to take care of his mother's wounds until his mother's wounds healed, and then he took the old man back to Tianjin to work. Every day at work, he first carried his mother from the rented house to the van, and then drove to the shade of the trees next to the factory building of his unit.
The mother was thin and could not straighten her legs, so he spread the back seat of the van with a thick quilt and let the mother lie on the car, and the car also brought a portable toilet, and every two hours he returned to the front of the car to help his mother go to the toilet, feed the water, and at lunch he made a meal at the unit and ate together.
There are more than a dozen nursing staff in the medical and nursing center, most of whom are around 50 years old, and some of them are because their families are in the hospital for recuperation, after hospital inspection and training, and then on the job.
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Go home
Before the Spring Festival in 2020, Zhao Xiaobo took his mother back to his hometown for the New Year, and then quit his job in Tianjin due to the epidemic and stayed at home to take care of his mother.
In late July this year, Linwei District organized the Duqiao Community Hospital Medical Care Center to conduct family elderly care training, and Zhao Xiaobo was recommended by community cadres to participate in the training.
These clothes sheets, Zhao Xiaobo will be divided into two times with two disposable washing machines that can wash 10 kilograms of clothes in a drum washing machine, and then hang up.
Wang Zhaohui, director of the medical care center, feels that Zhao Xiaobo has learned very carefully, is particularly patient, and has a strong ability to understand, plus the night shift nurse of the medical care center needs to frequently turn over the elderly, and is in need of a strong man, Zhao Xiaobo was hired, with a monthly salary of 4,000 yuan.
Zhao Xiaobo is very satisfied with this income, and more importantly, his mother can get better care in the hospital.