Chapter 446 Christina
"Wish, how is it like working in a hospital?"
On the seventh day of training camp, a teammate asked.
The person asked was Trevo Ariza, who, in terms of style, was in a competitive relationship with Wei Xia.
Derek Fisher will occupy a starting position without any surprise. Kobe was also a steady starter before being traded. As the second in command, Wei Xia is naturally also a starting position. Unless Kobe leaves the team, Ariza can only compete with Wei Xia. He is also very clear that he cannot shake Wei Xia's position.
“Not very interesting.”
Wei Xia was honestly trying to communicate with Elaine Trovisdo through the charity day event. As a result, he found that Trovis was extremely busy at work and had no chance to meet except for get off work hours, let alone communicate.
Since he chose the hospital, Wei Xia had to do something seriously.
But he couldn't help with 99% of the things in the hospital.
Two days later, the second day of the Charity Day, Wei Xia and the interns hang out together, signing, taking photos, working together and having dinner together.
They asked a lot of questions.
The most frequent question is whether Kobe really wants to leave? Wei Xia always jokes: "I wish he would leave immediately."
"Why?" asked a resident doctor named Suni.
Wei Xia said sincerely: "He is too cruel."
This is absolutely false. From the first day of training camp, Kobe made many people notice his tyranny. This was something that had never happened before.
Is Kobe in that state the real Kobe?
Wei Xia couldn't be sure, maybe this was another milestone on his path as Michael Jordan, or maybe he was just clumsy imitating the former.
With Kobe's talent, it is naturally no problem to imitate the best player in history, but too much imitation and learning will also limit himself.
Those who yearn for carving their faces to the President's Mountain often drive some trends.
The two black and white heroes have revolutionized the concept of the game, and Jordan led the rise of a group of No. 2 playing styles.
Kobe improved himself step by step under the bathing of the God of Basketball, but it was a pity that he never jumped out of that halo.
Now he becomes Jordan again.
Jordan, who was the crash course in the championship, had a lot of air when everyone saw him.
Wei Xia greeted Kobe all day long with the words "Don't be so fierce when people are about to be traded" and "Can't you leave a good impression on each other before you leave?"
A few days ago Kobe couldn't help it: "Do you want me to leave?"
This person is outrageous. It’s not that Wei Xia asked him to apply for a deal. He vowed to escape from Los Angeles on the first day of training camp. What’s the situation now? Don’t want to leave anymore?
Because Wei Xia couldn't help, the crew tailored the script for him.
He wants to create a person who is friendly to the people, has no airs, is sincere and enthusiastic.
After hearing the program setting, Wei Xia felt that his true nature was over. Because he met every characteristic.
It's late at night, and it's time to get off work again.
The crew has left, and Wei Xia is planning to leave.
Today, he was hit by an ordinary young girl while he was running around.
She may be less than 18 years old, but she asked the doctor for a question.
She said she slept with three men last night and only took one birth control pill but wouldn’t it work?
In addition to lamenting that she is young and has no limits, Wei Xia thought that he had lived for 23 years and was worth tens of millions, but she had an affair with three women.
She only took one night to tie his 23-year record.
Besides, that was just her night. How many people had been killed after she had experienced the forbidden fruit? The numbers were probably so vast that she couldn't remember them clearly.
From this point of view, how rare is Elaine Trovis' existence?
He would rather date a woman who would not be able to get married than date a woman who could have three men back to back one night.
Wei Xia was about to leave when she suddenly heard the beeping caller in his pocket.
It turned out that he did not put the caller back to its original position.
He had to go to the designated ward as shown in the beep call machine, but he was not a doctor. His task was to go to that ward and hand over the beep call machine to a doctor.
Wei Xia was summoned to a single room ward.
Inside was a pale and weak middle-aged woman named Christina.
When Wei Xia came, a doctor was already there.
This doctor is called "x" by Wei Xia.
Because he often has a stern face and does not give patients a smile, he has been complained about this.
"Doctor, how is my situation?"
Christina looked in bad condition, but there was a light in her eyes. She was the one with hope.
The news brought by Dr. x was unfortunate. Christina came to the emergency room last week to find severe ascites and was suspected of having an ovarian mass. Today, the examination results confirmed that her ovarian mass was diagnosed with ovarian cancer.
Moreover, the discovery was too late and the cancer cells had metastasized on a large scale.
She doesn't have much time left.
Doctor x did not say the word cancer on the spot because he knew that for patients, anything related to the word cancer would have a negative impact. Once the word "cancer" is released, no matter what he said later, the patient will ask you to spend half an hour explaining the cancer clearly. Of course, no doctor is willing to have cancer for their own patients, even though her condition is already bad, it cannot be worse.
Doctor x used brief words to show the severity of the situation.
Christina's eyes drooped slightly and she said she wanted to contact her family.
The next second, she recognized Wei Xia.
"You are that... Lakers..."
Wei Xia, who was about to go home, nodded and replied: "It's me."
"It's amazing, how could I see you here? Do you know? Our whole family is your fans, you are our favorite Lakers player... My daughter, she is only 14 years old, but she told me to marry you in the future on Christmas last year. Fortunately, you had a girlfriend at that time, otherwise I would be in a difficult situation." Christina seemed to have already suffered from a terminal illness and forgot about what she had not been around for a long time.
Wei Xia, who wanted to go home, unexpectedly stayed and talked to Christina.
For some reason, the other party gave her a sense of intimacy like Mei Chen.
He knew that his mother was also an optimistic person. Although he was not Mei Chen's biological child, Mei Chen's optimistic attitude towards life undoubtedly affected Wei Xia.
Christina was friendly, funny and talkative. Although she was almost breathless in the emergency room, she was almost forced by a stomach full of fluid, but she had a very happy chat with Wei Xia, just like two friends who had not seen each other for a long time met at the bus stop, happily chatting about what happened to each other over the years.
Wei Xia learned about the stranger's condition. Her son was studying in medical school and her daughter was in middle school. She also recognized Wei Xia's socks at a glance.
After a while, Christina's family came.
What a harmonious family, Wei Xia could tell from their faces that he cared for Christina. They were surprised by Wei Xia's appearance, but before they could continue to be happy, Dr. x announced Christina's condition.
The moment she learned about the illness, the optimistic Christina collapsed. She cried and told her husband that her daughter had left Wei Xia, many things that "can never do again", and how she discovered that the word "forever" was just a word that puts a storefront on Valentine's Day greeting card.
She was unable to attend because of her busy studies and her son would soon graduate from medical school, but she couldn't see it; her daughter would get married one day in the future, and she couldn't help arrange guests by her side, and she couldn't sprinkle colorful paper confetti when her daughter came out of the church. She had no chance to see her grandson or granddaughter, and her husband would never be able to let go of her death.
"You don't even know how to use the thermostat!" At this point, Christina smiled, and Wei Xia couldn't help laughing, because she really didn't know what to say.
Sometimes, Wei Xia wanted to lie and tell her that everything would be fine, but they both knew it was not true.
Wei Xia, who was about to leave at 10 o'clock in the evening, stayed at the Angel Hospital in Los Angeles until one o'clock in the morning.
Finally, Wei Xia hugged her. The total number of strangers he hugged since childhood was no more than 5 - but at this moment he didn't know what else he could do.
"I'll see you in a few days."
Wei Xia solemnly promised.
His next charity day is two days later.
Wei Xia did not wait for that day, but rushed to the hospital after training the next day.
Wei Xia and Christina chatted about things that were not related to basketball. From her eyes, Wei Xia could see that her mood improved.
Wei Xia suddenly realized that this might be the first time she had discussed all this with another person frankly, and even when facing her family, she could not tell the truth. Such privileges made Wei Xia feel weird, as if she had won some kind of honor that did not belong to him at all.
In the face of death, many of Christina's worries have nothing to do with herself. She is worried about children, husband, sister, friend, and maybe the word "good person" is used to describe people like her.
They established a short-term friendship.
Even without a charity day, Wei Xia will come to the hospital.
The five-day charity day ended soon, but Wei Xia still insisted on going back and forth to the hospital and talking to and from Christina at the end of the charity day.
Some people think he is doing a show, but he doesn't care about the voices of the outside world.
"You said, should I let my family scatter my ashes into the fields?" That was Christina's favorite place.
On the last night of preseason training camp, Wei Xia came to the hospital again.
Christina decided not to let her family scatter the ashes in her favorite fields because that would remind her of her family when she was out.
At the end of her life, she was still filled with a selflessness that could not be diluted, thinking clearly about what impact her departure would have on the loved ones.
That day, on the way home, Wei Xia called Mei Chen: "Mom, I love you."
Chapter completed!