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Heart Transplant

Mengzhu finally had successful heart transplant surgery

By Aynaz SabooriPublished 3 years ago 5 min read
Heart Transplant
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Mengzhu finally had successful heart transplant surgery. On the day she was discharged from the hospital, she returned home and cleaned the inside and outside.

Mengzhu's husband was amazed that his wife, who never liked to do housework, had taken the initiative to clean the house so well. Mengzhu said she had easily recovered her life and would enjoy her life in the future, the first item to enjoy life is to clean up the place where she lives, unlike before, socks are always thrown in the corner; shoes are always one in the hall and one in the room; clothes are piled up on the sofa and every time you want to sit, you have to pull half a day before a place is vacant.

Mengzhu's husband was very happy with her change, and he was happy to think: from now on, I don't have to be busy cleaning up the messy house after work, and then turn around and get angry at another pile of messy things.

But after a month, my husband couldn't stand Mengzhu's almost cleanliness.

When she woke up in the morning, she closed the toilet door and brushed her teeth for nearly 20 minutes; when she made breakfast, she disinfected the two bowls several times and then scalded them twice with boiling water before filling them with rice; she washed her hair once before she left home and again after she returned; even when she went out to take out the garbage, she came back to wash her hair, take a shower and look at herself in the mirror for half a day; after making sure that no dust had gotten on her body After making sure that there is no dust on her body parts, Mengzhu began to sweep, mopping, wipe the table, at least three times a day to mop the floor, she will not feel dirty.

What's worse, Mengzhu often has the same dream, there is a small hut, the house is empty, a white-haired old man is sitting on a broken wooden stool, see her, showing a miserable smile, and then poorly reaching out to her hand to ask for money for living. If she doesn't give it, the old man runs after her, all the way to the top of a tall building, where she leaps, screaming as her body hangs in the air. Until her husband shook her. Only then did she snap her eyes open, and after realizing that it was a dream, she stared at the ceiling in a sweaty daze.

Two months later, Mengzhu's husband couldn't take it anymore, and he suggested the ground to go to the hospital for a checkup to see if this was a mental illness. Mengzhu also felt that she should see a doctor find out why she had become so abnormal.

Early one Monday morning, Mengzhu's husband took time off work to accompany her to the doctor's appointment. After learning about her condition, the doctor told Mengzhu that maybe these conditions had something to do with the heart she had replaced.

Mengzhu was surprised when the doctor said that to treat the condition, she had to know what kind of person's heart she had replaced.

Mengzhu only knew that she had replaced the heart of a woman who had committed suicide by jumping off a building and did not have detailed information about the woman's family situation and personality traits. To treat her illness, Mengzhu decided to go to the doctor who helped her get her heart replaced to find out the exact situation.

When Mengzhu found the doctor who replaced her heart, he only told her where the owner of the heart used to live and the cause of death he had told her about before, but not much else. Mengzhu decided to go to the place where the owner of the heart lived to find out the situation in person.

A week later, Mengzhu finally found the address of the owner of the heart and found a friend who knew the owner of the heart.

The friend told her that the owner of the heart was a woman with a serious cleanliness problem, she was the wife of a rich man, she didn't have to go to work every day, and when she was bored at home she just cleaned the house and dressed. Her habits before she was born were the same as Meng Zhu's habits now.

In addition, she had an old father who lived in the countryside and often wrote to her asking for money, and her husband did not like her father. Once the old man came to stay in the city for two days, he was kicked out by her husband, and she jumped off a building in a fit of anger. After her father found out, he was stimulated and became crazy, reaching out for money when he saw women on the road.

When Mengzhu heard this story about the owner of the heart, her heart had an inexplicable sting and she was eager to meet the poor old man. The friend gave her an address in the countryside, and she couldn't wait to get in the car and rush to the small, remote village.

In a small, ramshackle hut, she saw the same scene she had seen in her dream: the hut was empty, and a gray-haired old man was sitting on a small, ramshackle wooden stool, and when he saw her, he smiled miserably, and then pitifully held out his hand to ask her for money to live.

Mengzhu took out 100 yuan and shoved it into the old man's hand, who laughed and jumped for joy.

Outside the house, at some point, there was a crowd of country people watching. They looked inside the house, pointing, laughing, and discussing.

An old woman came into the house, looked at Mengzhu, and said, "Daughter, who are you to him? Are you a relative? He is so poor, ever since his daughter died, he has been alone and crazy, he has not been able to eat the next meal, and he survives only with the help of us, his relatives, so take him away."

Mengzhu was just about to speak, but the old man jumped to her side and said excitedly, "Daughter, my good daughter, you've finally come back, stay here, live with Dad."

Mengzhu froze and she blurted out, "I'm not his daughter, and I'm not his relative ......"

A young man was just about to speak, but he saw the old man yell and fall to the ground. Everyone rushed over to help him. The old man didn't move a muscle, and the young man reached out to feel his breath and said, "It's gone ......"

Mengzhu suddenly felt a sharp pain in her heart, and she cried out loudly. Finally, with the help of everyone, she took care of the old man's affairs and then took a bus back to the city.

After that day, the small hut and the old man no longer appeared in Mengzhu's dreams. According to the doctor's advice, her husband helped her find a job, and she worked all day long, and her cleanliness symptoms gradually subsided.

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Aynaz Saboori

How to explain? How to understand? What do we do with all the injustice?

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