The general period for chickenpox infection is in late winter and early spring, so it is rare for someone like Julian to contract it in the hottest month of September. At first, both caretakers were hesitant to touch him for fear that her chickenpox would be highly contagious and more severe in adults than in children. Even someone like Avery, who had not taken any precautions, kept her distance and did not get too close when holding Julian. However, at this moment, she could not care about anything else. Julian was sick, and her chickenpox was so severe that it broke her heart. It was a strange feeling, as if her own child had contracted a serious illness. If she didn't hold him, who would? "Don't say anything, hurry and take Julian to the hospital, we need to be quick." Seeing that Avery was not worried, the caretakers did not say anything and quickly helped to put Julian in the car. The other caretaker stayed at the daycare center to take care of the other children, while Rose went with Lu Shiqian. On the way to the hospital, the little person in averysy arms opened his eyes slightly and saw Avery. He opened his mouth but didn't say anything and started to scratch himself frantically. He looked very uncomfortable. Before he scratched himself too much and made his chickenpox worse, Lu Shiqian quickly freed up one hand and held onto both of Julian's hands tightly. "You can't scratch anymore, Julian .Be good and listen to me. Don't scratch anymore..." Julian whimpered and soon broke out in a sweat. Anyone who has had chickenpox knows that once you contract it, any part of your skin with a rash will be extremely painful and itchy.
Avery remembered that she had also had chickenpox when she was a child. At that time, her condition was not as severe as Julian's, but the painful and itchy feeling still made her uncomfortable to this day.
Moreover, Julian was such a young child, with dense red rashes all over his body, including his face and arms. If it weren't for the extreme discomfort and pain, the little guy who always kept to himself would not have shown such a painful expression in front of her, a stranger. "Don't be afraid, Julian ,sister is here, don't be afraid." Besides that, she didn't know how to comfort the child.
She could only hold his small hand tightly and hug his tiny body tightly, constantly comforting him.
"We'll be at the hospital soon, Julian. You just hold on a little longer. When we get to the hospital, you won't be so uncomfortable anymore, Julian..."
As she spoke, she saw Julian, who had just had his eyes open, slowly closing them.
At the same time, the small hand that she was holding tightly in the palm of her hand also seemed to lose strength in an instant and became limp, falling from her palm. Avery was so scared that she shouted, "Julian don't scare me, Julian..."
Rose, who was sitting in front, heard the sound and couldn't help but turn around to look. She saw Julian's head tilted back, his eyes tightly closed, his small face pale and sweaty, and her heart instantly hung in the air.
Avery quickly instructed the driver, "Drive faster.
"This is already the fastest speed. I can't go any faster." The driver wiped the sweat from his forehead. "If we go any faster, there will be an accident."
Julian...." Avery's attention was all on the child.
She reached out and gently wiped the sweat from his small head with heartache.
Looking at the red rashes on his face and body, she felt indescribably uncomfortable. She looked up at the driver and said, "Can you go any faster? The child may still have a fever. If we're any later, something might happen."
She had spent hours online reading about examples of people who had suffered brain damage or other consequences from fever when they were young. Now, feeling her own body burning up, she was really scared. Julian had always been so unlucky, with no mother to love her and Ethan,that icy-faced man, leaving him in the orphanage. He had been autistic since childhood, with no one to accompany him. If he got a fever again and caused irreversible damage, wouldn't he be even more pitiful?
Camden was always a very rule-abiding driver, but today he was driving faster than ever before. At first, he said he couldn't go any faster, but later on, Avery urged him a few times, and they took a few risks by running red lights. There was some traffic on the road, and by the time they arrived at the central hospital, half an hour had passed.
When they arrived at the hospital, there were still many people waiting in line to register. Considering Julian's urgent situation, the hospital opened up a passage for her and immediately arranged for emergency treatment. Because the emergency room was on the eleventh floor, Julian, lay on the stretcher, while Avery and the doctors and nurses responsible for his emergency treatment waited outside the elevator.
But both elevators seemed to be working against Avery. One was stuck on the negative third floor, where several family members were said to be dealing with the cremation of their loved ones, and they couldn't get it to come up no matter how hard they tried. In the other elevator, which they finally managed to catch on this floor, several doctors were already guarding a surgical bed, with another patient who needed emergency surgery on the eleventh floor.
Avery couldn't wait any longer. Every passing minute made her feel like it was a terrible threat to Julian's life. She picked him up from the stretcher and said to the doctors and nurses, "I'll carry Julian up first, you guys come up quickly."
"Hey, Miss Wells..." One of the nurses wanted to stop Avery, but in the blink of an eye, she was gone.
They couldn't help but sigh, "That's the eleventh floor, running up there would make anyone exhausted."
When Avery carried Julian up to the fourth floor, she already felt her hands losing strength. In order to bring the child up as quickly as possible, she carried him on her back and quickly climbed up the stairs from the fourth floor to the upper floors.
By the time she reached the seventh floor, she had almost no strength left in her body.
She struggled to climb the stairs while gasping for breath and calling Julian's name, "Julian ,we're almost there, you have to hold on, Julian..."
Due to the vigorous movement, Julian, who had been unconscious, was shaken awake during the ascent.
He opened his eyes and looked at the unfamiliar sister who was carrying him up the stairs with great difficulty. He weakly called out, "Sister."
Although his voice was very small, Avery still heard it.
She heard a soft and weak voice calling her from behind: "Sister..."
Sister? Was Julian calling her sister?
Julian ,who suffered from severe autism, just called her sister?
At that moment, Avery was both surprised and delighted. She turned her head and asked, "Julian ,are you calling me sister, Zhizhi?"
But as soon as she turned her head, she saw him fall into shock again and close his eyes.
This one closing of his eyes completely extinguished the joy in Avery's heart.
"Julian! Don't fall asleep, wait for me, Julian...." While she was anxious, Avery hurriedly increased her pace, carrying Julian on her back and running up the stairs even faster.
"Ninth floor, tenth floor, we're almost there, we'll be at the eleventh floor soon."Julian don't fall asleep, do you see? Just two more steps and we'll be there.
As she was about to climb the last step, suddenly, when she was almost at the eleventh floor, Lu Shiqian stepped on nothing and stumbled backwards, taking Julian with her. Behind her was a four-meter high staircase!