The Legendary Actor - Chapter 58

Crossing a few streets and soon entering Madison Avenue, a dark red Victorian building comes into view, stark yet wonderfully blending into the surrounding streets.

As the bridgehead of Europe’s landing in North America, New York left the imprint of countless European iron foes, such as Harlem, the name of which comes from the Netherlands, when this area was a territory of the Netherlands. The building was completed in the mid-nineteenth century, a long time after the colonial era, but the designer still followed the exotic style of the nearby neighborhoods, which made it a beautiful sight.

Renly quickly entered the front door, then put the skateboard away and went to the first floor, “Kelly.” Renly greeted a young lady standing behind the counter and reached out to hand over the skateboard.

The lady named Kelly took the skateboard and gave him a big smile, “You made it!”

Renly responded with a smile, “I’m already five minutes late, so I’ll be up in a minute.” Kelly nodded that it was no problem, and placed the skateboard under the counter, then Renly quickly ran to the elevator and dashed in before the doors closed.

When the elevator stopped on the seventh floor, Renly stepped out of the elevator door and saw a little girl, about six or seven years old, sitting on an orange plastic bench with her chin on her hands, pouting her mouth in exasperation, her blown-out gills looking like bubble fish.

Renly walked forward, squatted down in front of the little girl and touched her little head, but she stubbornly twisted it away, her eyebrows twisted together in a tangle, as she looked at Renly with anger in her crystal clear eyes, “I’m thinking! Don’t bother me!” The appearance of that little adult was really a sight to behold.

Renly also restrained his smile and said in a serious manner, “Did you not have a poo-poo today again?”

The little girl gritted her teeth and waved her chubby right fist, then slammed it down on her left palm, “Renly, I haven’t had a poo-poo in three days! Three days!” Then she sighed up to the heavens in a hateful manner, “Jesus Christ, I am so full of poo-poo right now that I don’t think I can get anymore fuller.”

Renly almost laughed so hard that tears could come out, but he didn’t, so he shook his fist and cheered her on, “I believe in you! You can do it!”

The little girl also shook her fist, with a look on her face that said, “Today, today is the day! I’ve decided to go to the bathroom and do my job, so I won’t be able to stay with you for a while!”

“Don’t worry, I can stand up to it all by myself and will never get lost!” The two of them said “Go for it” to each other again, and then Renly watched the little girl walk towards the bathroom with a sad face. The little grown-up’s look really makes people laugh.

The building is actually Mount Sinai Hospital, one of the best local children’s hospitals in New York.

He knew better than anyone else the pain and suffering of long hospital stays, which is a feeling that bystanders, and maybe even friends who are patients, cannot understand, because every patient has his or her own demons, his or her own story.

Sometimes, the patients will start to get angry for no reason at all, at everyone around them. For family and friends, they can only stand by, anxious, wanting to help but unable to do so, while asking, “Do you want something?”. Whenever a patient asks, they do everything they can to help.

But Renly knew that they didn’t really want anything, they just … just didn’t know what to do. The care, the worry, the pain, the suffering.

Those who are close, from family and friends, they know, they all know, but it still doesn’t change the fact that they are sick, and it doesn’t change the fact that everyone is helpless, and the anger, the jealousy, the depression that erupts from deep inside, even they themselves can’t control it.

Even though they knew that none of this was the fault of their family and friends, they couldn’t find anyone to vent their anger.

Perhaps they just need someone close by that they can ignore as much as they want, yet stay as far away as they can and still never leave.

They know that this is too much to ask, because even their own family members have a life of their own, and they can’t just stop where they are forever because of their condition. But, what more could they ask for?

At the age of eighteen, he obtained his professional nursing license, hoping to help as many people as he could. Even when he changed cities, he never stopped his activities, and for the past eight months, except for the time he spent filming “The Pacific”, he has continued to volunteer at a nearby hospital in Australia.

It’s not kindness, it’s not charity, it’s just empathy.

The little girl, Annie Seliman, lived at Mount Sinai Hospital during Renly’s filming. Renly had asked the doctor about Annie’s condition, and he had explained a lot of medical terms.

If she was unable to perform this basic function on her own for some time, she would have to resort to medical treatment. After Renly returned to New York, he saw Annie undergo a treatment in which her tiny body lay helplessly in a hospital bed/ with tubes all over her body, quietly for three days, unable to do anything, not even speak. The long process was so torturous that bystanders couldn’t bear to watch, let alone Annie herself, who was being treated.

“Renly, Renly, Renly!” There was the sound of a little train whirring behind him, and without waiting for Renly to turn around, a little guy jumped on Renly’s back, “Plane, plane, fly the plane!”

Renly grabbed the little guy’s butt and back with both hands, stood up and spun around in a fast circle, then sprinted forward in a blur, the little guy on his back cheerfully cheering, “Fly, I’m flying! Anita, Anita, look, I’m flying!”

Anita Tunisia, the head nurse at the nurse’s station, was dumbfounded, as she sat up slightly straighter, and cryptically called out, “Renly, don’t do it too long, don’t be too intense, Alex’s heart can’t take it!”

“Yes, ma’am