“Poor boy,” the grandmothers commented on the bench at the entrance, “growing up without a mother.
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Ksyusha recently got a job as a pediatrician at the local site. She recently graduated from a medical university, and due to the fact that the department was budgetary, she was assigned from the capital to a small town, which is sometimes difficult to find on the map. Before Ksyusha got here, she did not even hear his name. And for several weeks now, she worked at the local clinic.
They were very glad to young cadres, because there is always tension with them in the country. Moreover, few people are happy to go somewhere on the outskirts to a small settlement. There has always been a shortage of pediatricians here, 5 doctors per town, of which two are women in their 70s. These ladies, of course, have good experience and practice, but more and more often they advise babies to treat a runny nose. by instilling breast milk into the nose, and joint pain by applying a cabbage leaf and iodine mesh. So Ksyusha's appearance in the clinic was a kind of breath of fresh air.
Everyone praised Ksyusha, despite the fact that she was still quite young, and she had no experience at all, she did her job with great joy. All her life, the girl lived in the capital, but she still more than liked the quiet measured life of a small town. Everything around was so peaceful, calm, ordinary. The inhabitants of the town are not arrogant, no one shows off in front of each other, not like Muscovites.
Ksyusha had time to work, and for herself, and for walks along the streets of the town, and for leisure. There was a local cinema, a cafe, a park here. Everything is as it should be.
Ksyusha performed the work with high quality, approached her with soul. It was mid-March, the doctors were stitching up, because everyone around was just en masse with the flu and SARS. I had to rush to the calls every day, then go to the reception, and even be on duty at the hospital. In general, it was not boring.
One of the same days, Ksyusha, or rather Ksenia Sergeevna, was summoned to the address of one five-year-old boy. The door was opened by a man - the boy's dad, Ksyusha even managed to think: "Where is mom, the child is bad!". Two days of fever, sore throat. Ksyusha diagnoses sore throat. On examination, the boy opened his eyes and said:
- Please, aunt, marry my dad, I beg you! You are so good, and it is very difficult for him alone!
Ksenia Sergeevna was very much surprised, no one had ever proposed to her to marry, and she did not expect that everything would be like this. She did not answer, just wrote out a prescription with medications, clearly described what to do with the sick boy, and walked into the corridor. The boy's father accompanied her, and began to apologize:
- Forgive Sasha, he lacks female attention, that's why he told you so, I bring him up myself, alone.
Ksenia Sergeevna told Sashka's father that everything was all right and that he shouldn't make excuses. And when she left the entrance, her grandmothers almost surrounded her, and began vying with each other to gossip:
- Poor boy, growing up without a mother.
- Unhappy, he has no mother, and dad is so good, but it's hard for him alone.
- And Katka, the mother of Sashenkina, that her little jerk. In pursuit of the men, she forgot about her son at all. It has not appeared for half a year. Sasha's dad is good, he does his best, but no one can replace his mother.
- Do not worry, Sasha will recover soon, everything will be fine, - Ksenia Sergeevna could only say this, although she herself was in shock from everything she heard.
According to the rules, only children under one year old are visited every day, and as for older children, they only go to temperature, prescribe medications and recommendations, and then they come to the appointment on their own, well, with parents, of course. But Ksyusha began to visit Sasha every day. When the baby began to recover a little, he was so happy with the girl's visits. Once he got out of bed, when Ksyusha came, stomped on weak legs to the kitchen to make tea for the guest. And Ksenia Sergeevna did not refuse. She could not do otherwise.
Everyone sat down at the table, talked, and the men were very happy with Ksyusha's presence, it was evident from them. The father was so proud of his son's independence, and Sasha talked about his group in the kindergarten, poems, the content of his favorite cartoons. A surprisingly adult and sensible boy for his five years.
Ksyusha also enjoyed the company of these ordinary people, she decided to visit a family consisting of a father and a son, more often, despite some rules there.
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