After dinner, William and Bruce took a walk in the yard for a while and then took Bruce upstairs to take a bath. Elisa took an iPad to study some cases in the living room. It took a long time for William to come down from upstairs.
Elisa also put away the iPad. “Bruce is asleep?”
“Hmm.”
“When he is in a bad state, do you often accompany him all day?”
“He can’t stand being touched by others. If I don’t accompany him, he can’t eat or drink all day.”
Elisa nodded. If Edward and Rebecca hadn’t said that Bruce was the child of Wesley, she would have thought Bruce was his son because he was concerned for Bruce and their similarity.
What William did for Bruce completely exceeded what his father could do for his child.
“Can you tell me about him? Otherwise, I may make inappropriate actions like last night.”
“You don’t have to care about last night. When my parents touched him, his condition was even worse. As in the past, he is in a bad state, which will last at least a week. This time, it is very good to be relieved in one day. This is your credit.” Elisa gently pulled the corners of her mouth, and she found that the more she got along with William, the more different the man gave her the feeling.
Before listening to Annie’s gossip, she only thought he was a cold and overbearing president.
When he pestered her to marry him, he was a bit of a scoundrel.
In the face of Bruce’s illness, he was surprisingly patient and would not lead others to anger at will because he cared about Bruce. Such a man couldn’t adjust his sight at all.
“President, you make me don’t know how to know things,” Elisa said.
William listened and smiled a few times. “I’ll tell you about him briefly. After his accident, I didn’t have the first time to be with him. I was talking about an important contract abroad. At that time, we didn’t expect an accident to have such a big impact on a three-year-old child.”
“What happened at that time?” Elisa was puzzled.
Elisa was assigned to pediatrics for three months before taking the qualification certificate of practicing doctor. As far as she knew, the memory of a three-year-old child cannot last long.
Because of many things, they still didn’t understand what they mean, and their brains couldn’t understand the information they see and hear and didn’t produce long-term memories.
What’s more, their brains were not fully developed, and it was impossible to remember the information at all.
“On the day of the accident, my mother and Natalie took Bruce to the Children’s Hospital for physical examination. There was an accident on the road, and the car was blocked on the viaduct. Family members of both sides of the accident began to fight in groups, which slowly evolved into onlookers beating people. Bruce’s car was smashed to pieces. My mother and Natalie were injured to varying degrees to protect Bruce, but Natalie’s situation was more serious.”
Elisa was surprised. She didn’t expect to hear such a story.
In a unique situation, people would have no thinking ability, and they would follow the anger of people around them and do many things that were impossible at ordinary times without reason. And people’s emotions were easily infected by people around them. When most people were crazy about looting, rational people would do the same. Or they would be beaten by people who lose their minds.
Elisa asked, “What did the police do behind?”
“Everyone who touches the car is sentenced to life imprisonment.” William cold track.
His usual low magnetic voice seemed to be covered with a layer of ice ballast at that time.
Elisa did not doubt that if those people could be sentenced to death, William would push the matter to the death penalty level.
“Assuming that Mom and Natalie protected Bruce at that time, Bruce could not be afraid of them. On the contrary, he will rely more on them after the incident.”
“I have your thoughts before. But it turns out that Bruce is not only not getting close to them, but also can’t get close to everyone.”
Elisa felt that things would not be so simple and asked, “Did Dr. Murphy give Bruce psychological tests in the past two years?”
“Yes. At first, psychological trauma was identified, and the repair period was half a year. However, after half a year, Bruce’s symptoms did not improve, and it was re-identified as atypical autism.” William rubbed his eyebrows wearily. “At first, he didn’t want to do any communication, unlike typing on iPad now. At that time, he didn’t even know the words. As long as he was unhappy, he screamed or smashed things, and he couldn’t touch his temper at all.”
Elisa could imagine how hard it was for William at that time. He was busy taking care of Bruce and managing Brich’s Group.
“In the past six months, after he knew more words, he began to be willing to communicate with words. After meeting you, he has changed more. I think this is a good phenomenon.”
“He will be alright.” Elisa looked at the clock in the living room and said, “It’s getting late. Go and have a rest. You didn’t have a good rest last night.”
“Goodnight.”
**
Elisa began to read books about children’s autism and children’s mental health in her busy work, hoping to learn more about some theoretical knowledge. Those who came to the operating room because she was William’s wife also eased, which reduced her workload a lot. Elisa also breathed a brief sigh of relief and could put more energy into her work.
“Elisa, Professor Malick asked you to go to his office.”
“Is Professor Malick back?”
“Hmm. Just after the meeting with the leaders and directors of the hospital, he called you to his office. Elisa, tell me the secret of your likability.”
“I’m less poor. You summarize the year-end report and put it on my desk before leaving work in the afternoon. Don’t be perfunctory, and I am not letting you go through the motions. I will give you an evaluation this year according to your report.”
Annie immediately shrank his neck and shoulders. “I see.”
Elisa picked up several documents and went to the Professor’s office.
“Hello, Professor Malick.”
“Mrs. Brich, long time no see.” He teased her.
“Professor Malick, can you not embarrass me?” Elisa shook her head and smiled and sat down at Professor’s desk.
“It was a compliment.”
“I didn’t see it.”
Professor looked at several documents in Elisa’s hand and said, “You made it.”
“Just say it casually.”
“Of course not.” Professor Malick took over those documents and praised her. “You have done more professionally than I thought.”
“I also had a hard time. I know too little about cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.”
“Don’t be modest. I used to see your speech when I went to Monash University to recruit assistants. Your foundation is not bad. At that time, I also told your tutor to let you be my assistant after graduation, and Director Davis beat the result.”
“And there is this thing.”
“Hmm. You are also excellent as a surgeon. Director Davis has excellent professional skills and good medical ethics. With a doctor with his qualifications, you can improve quickly.”