In the Department of Hematology of Harbin Children's Hospital, there are 6 wards, and 12 families repeat here. There are constantly discharged from the hospital and there are constantly living in. In this relatively closed space, 12 families are like living in a kitchen corridor, comforting, encouraging, and anxious about each other every day, for each other and for themselves.
Because children with leukemia have extremely low immunity, parents cannot go out to buy food, for fear that a tiny accident will bring bacteria, so such a small kitchen appears in this large corridor. The kitchenette was renovated seven years ago by the hospital in an idle room, about four square meters and two stoves, enough to accommodate two people to cook and cook. Whenever it is time to eat, young parents line up to cook for the children according to their time. Perhaps only when they watch their children eat a clean and delicious meal can they see that their lives have been moving forward for a day. In more than 2,000 days and nights, the "kitchen" pot has made more than a hundred sweet and bitter things from the "kitchen".
" My daughter said she would cook for me in the future. At 11:00 on July 30, the kitchen was already lively. It was accompanied by the fragrance of food, as well as the conversation between parents, the "wavy" sound of food in the pot, and the "clang" sound of kitchen utensils when they touched the edge of the pot, just like living in a kitchen where the kitchen was shared. Chen Ye (pseudonym), 28, is making pork ribs. He has been busy all morning just to make the sick children have delicious meals at noon. Wang Yan, a nurse in the management ward, introduced that the kitchenette is like a big family. Everyone will not care too much about each other. Some children cannot get stuffed in the car when they are discharged from the hospital, so they will leave the pot, basin and various seasonings for other parents of the children. Fortunately, the food in the pot is disinfected at high temperature, and the kitchenette is in a relatively closed space, so there is no problem with hygiene, but the knives and cutting boards must be their own, because these kitchenware cannot be disinfected at high temperature, and for children with leukemia, it cannot withstand any infection.
41-year-old Tang Qiu (pseudonym) is wrapping wontons for her daughter. The kitchen can accommodate two people at the same time. Today, she is ranked second batch of cooking, and it is still time to go. Tang Qiu's daughter is 13 years old. She is a very diligent and sensible girl. She washes her paralyzed grandmother's hair and feet every day. This is the topic that Tang Qiu always shows off to people: "At the beginning of this year, I found that my daughter gradually became less diligent, and the frequency of washing her grandmother's feet was getting lower and lower. She just likes to lie alone. Every time she asks her, she always says she is tired. "Maybe the child is really tired from studying, and Tang Qiu didn't care too much, but then the child began to have a low fever and a small red dot began to appear on her body. After examination in a local hospital, she found that the child's blood neck was abnormal. It is recommended to go to Harbin for treatment immediately. After diagnosis, her daughter suffered from leukemia, so Tang Qiu and his family moved to the Department of Hematology at Harbin Children's Hospital. Cooking, talking with your daughter every day, and taking care of your child has become Tang Qiu's entire life.
"More than five months have passed, and everyone meets in the kitchen three times a day. Sometimes whoever cooks good dishes will be given to other children to taste. Among the children who have eaten in a pot, many children have recovered and discharged from the hospital. Whenever a child is discharged, the fathers of the children in the ward will help carry their luggage and take them downstairs. The mothers of the children are reluctant to leave. Some children have not been able to wait for recovery. I heard that there was a child not long ago. A child originally planned to have a bone marrow transplant, but the child disappeared without waiting for the day of the transplant. Fortunately, most of the children are in good condition, and my daughter is much better than the beginning of the year. Now all I can do is prepare meals for her every day and use three meals to record the time of day. My daughter said that she will cook for me in the future. I wait for the child to get better soon. I think her cooking skills are as good as mine. "Tang Qiu was busy making wontons in his hand, and said.
"My son got two-month meal in Sister Tang"
In this relatively closed ward, all the children lived in young children, so their parents are also young. Tang Qiu is considered to be older, so everyone here ignores her name and only calls her "big sister".Tang Qiu does look like an elder sister. She is the current "kitchen administrator" who is responsible for opening, disinfecting and cleaning the kitchen every day.
The kitchen needs to be used for breakfast for at least two hours, so everyone started cooking at 6 o'clock. At that time, nurse Wang Yan would definitely not be able to get on duty, but there must be someone to manage the kitchen, so an administrator must be set up. As the children are continuously discharged from the hospital, the administrator is also changing them at any time, opening and locking the door every day to clean. The former administrator was a little girl's grandmother. After the child was discharged from the hospital, everyone and the nurse recommended Tang Qiu as the administrator. Tang Qiu is very responsible. He opens the door on time at 6 o'clock every day. After cooking in the evening, everyone does the final cleaning, and turns on the ultraviolet light to disinfect the kitchen for 50 minutes. "Actually, everyone is very conscious and will clean up their own kitchen residue after cooking, and basically I don't have to do anything else," said Tang Qiu.
At noon on the 30th, Wang Li (pseudonym) made fried ham for her 4-year-old son: "I'm not as good as my elder sister's cooking skills! My son "ruled" her elder sister's two-month meal." Wang Li's son was the same as Tang Qiu's daughter and lived in the same ward, but she came a little earlier than her. Wang Li's son also suddenly developed hypothermia and anemia, and his little face turned pale. Nurse Wang Yan introduced, "When this child first came, he always pestered his mother. He was uncomfortable and didn't want to eat, and he didn't let his mother eat. Even if the child's father had prepared the meal, he could only put it there to watch." Wang Li recalled that during that time, she hugged her son day by day, and she didn't dare to shed tears in front of the child.
"At that time, I thought the child might not be able to do it, so I held the child every day. When I was hungry, I would 'secretly' eat while the child was sleeping, because taking care of him was also exhausting physical strength. With the treatment, the child's illness improved, and the child's father went back to work. After all, medical treatment required money. At this time, a new problem arose again. My son wanted to eat, but he was not allowed to cook. As soon as I left, he would cry. Thanks to my elder sister, who would bring us a serving every day when cooking. The two children ate in the same pot for more than two months. The fried chicken wings were like sold. The child said it was very delicious, and even I couldn't help but want to try it." Wang Li said.
"Fortunately, the situation is getting better and better now. Now the child can leave and my life has been made. Now I can go to cook. If the food is good, I can also give it to my elder sister a little." Wang Li said while feeding her son.
The first child to eat in the kitchen took the high school entrance examination
"I saw it a few days ago in Xiaojun's father's circle of friends that the child took the high school entrance examination this year. Although he did not like or leave a message, he felt a warm feeling in his heart." said Ren Yalan, a nurse in the Department of Hematology at Harbin Children's Hospital. Ren Yalan was just transferred from the ward on the 6th floor of the Department of Hematology at the end of 2019. She has been in charge of this ward for six years since the kitchen was just established in 2013. Xiaojun was the first child to enter this ward that year. Xiaojun's parents were also the first parents to cook in the hospital ward. They still maintain contact information.
Xiaojun lives in Yichun City. Ren Yalan only remembers that he was still in elementary school at that time. His mother had no job and was responsible for taking care of the child every day. The child’s father worked outside. Xiaojun was very sensible. His blood vessels were relatively poor. Sometimes the nurse could not get in when the injection was given. The child was so painful that tears were spinning in his eyes and refused to cry. He kept encouraging the nurse and said, "Auntie, it's okay, I don't hurt. Have another injection." When the child's father arrived at the hospital, he always helped the nurse wipe the floor. After cooking in the kitchen, he always cleaned the stove with a rag. Ren Yalan said: "I remember very clearly that when Xiaojun's father was cooking in the kitchen for the first time, he was so happy that he couldn't stop talking and kept saying: 'This is great, it's clean and saves money.'"
Hematology Department nurse Cao Lina introduced that the kitchenette was established after the blood department was moved from the old building to the new building in 2013. Because leukemia children have very poor immunity, and exposure to a small amount of bacteria may cause infection. Previously, the parents of the children rented houses outside and used a pressure cooker to disinfect the bowls and chopsticks every day, and then took the prepared food to the ward, but even so, there is still a risk of bacteria. For this reason, The Department of Hematology used a room of about 4 square meters in the ward to make a kitchenette, and increased the electricity power for free for parents of children to use. Since 2013, more than 100 parents of children have cooked dishes in the kitchen.
"I also added some parents' WeChat and often followed their friends circle. Whenever I saw them post photos of their children, I would click on it, just like looking at their own children. Looking back, they were hospitalized in the ward and were still vivid in their memory when they were eating food in the kitchen. We improve the kitchen again and again, and thoroughly clean it up every once in a while, hoping that the kitchen can better cooperate with our treatment, hope that these children can recover, and hope that one day they can leave the hospital and live a normal life like other children. "The department director Zhang Weiwei said.
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