Distance to Heart

P a r t 36

Me and Andra were on the move as usual. After two weeks of honeymoon to five countries in continental Europe. Nothing has changed, everything is the same. I was practicing in the hospital and Andra was still busy with taking care of the companies she led.

While honeymooning in Europe, Andra and I discussed the future of both of us. Andra did not agree if Razka lived with us in the apartment for reasons as stated last time. At first I refused and was obviously angry at what my husband had decided. As her mother, no one wanted her child to live apart from her birth mother. What's more after we finally have state-sanctioned, legitimate documents. If Razka was our only child.

However, after I pondered and studied carefully what Andra had decided. There is a point with that decision. After all, it was not from the beginning that I had made this decision. So that Razka finally had to stay and already consider Nurbaiti his mother more than me, the mother who conceived and gave birth to him into the world.

***

I then advised Andra to buy a house for our little family to live in. I told my husband to buy a house that was a complex with Nurbaiti. Because it will make it easier for me and Andra to meet Razka every day and every time. Although to be honest my husband and I had to travel a considerable distance when living in the housing.

However, it was not a problem for me and Andra. As long as the two of us can meet Razka and play with her every day, whenever we can. That's enough for me and Andra. What else in this day and age, there have been many toll roads and highways built by the government and the private sector to facilitate access for every citizen who wants to travel anywhere so that it can save time and energy to get to the destination.

***

After lunch I was ready to go home because the patient was no longer surprised by the knock on the door outside the practice room.

"Lake in!" I cried when I no longer heard the knocking on the door.

The door opened and a man's face smiled at me.

"Andra! Why is gini's day coming? You know, his wife wants to go home," I chanted with a bitterness.

"Who's gonna pick you up, GR? The guy I came here to wait for Windy surgery. He asked me to go all the way" she explained, which embarrassed me.

"Oh, kirain," I replied with a frown.

"Udah did not go home, why is the day gini in the apartment alone. Mending come with me, wait for Windy. Pity him here alone," he said.

"Where is his family going? Who's gonna operate on Windy?" scabbard

"His mother keeps her son Windy at home. So there's no way to keep Windy in the hospital. If it's the doctor, as I remember. There's Doctor Lukman, Doctor Chandra, and one more doctor. Who is it, I forgot his name. Anyway he's a second assistant doctor,"

I nodded in understanding as I rushed out of the practice room with Andra. Meet Windy who was hospitalized on the fourth floor. My husband and I wanted to go there to give him encouragement and support so that he would not be nervous or even afraid of the surgery he was going through soon.

During the trip to the nursery. Andra took my hand. This is not the first time he has held my hand. He did the same thing every day on his honeymoon in a public place. I don't mind what he's doing making me happy, but it's in the hospital.

The place where I work. There will be a lot of people staring at both of us. There was actually a slight feeling of embarrassment for being the center of attention of people during the day. What else I forgot haven't opened my doctor's suit. People will automatically understand my status at this hospital.

"You're not ashamed of what, if the handle is like this. You could say you're a bucin's husband, you know?" my whiskey.

"No, I'm even grinning. Indeed, the fact is, I'm pregnant with you," he said casually.

Of course I was the one beside her, smiling and blushing in shame because of the honest confession from my husband.

Arriving in front of the inpatient room, I removed my arm from Andra's hand and immediately greeted Windy who looked ready to undergo surgery.

He said he wanted to make a surprise for the family if the eye surgery was successful. Her relationship with her sister deteriorated after she found out. If what happened to her father and husband. It was not me or the Andra family that caused it. All of that is pure misunderstanding and Windy must accept karma because of that misunderstanding.

***

During the operation, Andra and I sat in the waiting room, and occasionally my mouth yawned, because my eyes were getting sleepy. Andra who saw that immediately put my head on her shoulder.

"Which, later if you get pregnant again, you want to give birth normally what is a cesarean section?" ask Andra.

"You're normal 'was kayak first. Pas gave birth to Razka,"

"But it hurts, Yang. I'll be caesar, I can't bear to see it,"

"As long as it can be normal, I choose normal. That's the nature of women, besides I'm an obstetrician. So you can consider,"

"Emang gave birth to Razka. You're hospitalized, what's in the puskesmas?"

"At home,"

"Oh, you mean in the hospital, yeah,"

"No, at the house of the house. I gave birth to myself,"

"What!!!"

"Husst, don't be noisy! There's another operation, Yang," I said, lifting my head off Andra's shoulder.

"Kok you can give birth to Razka alone. How's story?" said it.

"It could be that I was a doctor again and still lived in a remote village so hunted brojol on the road, if I had to go to the hospital," I said lying.

"But Yang, you're not kapok. If I get pregnant with my son again, I really want to have a daughter so that her face is beautiful like yours," she said while putting my head back on her shoulder.

"Yes, anyway. Razka is similar to you up to eighty percent. Hmmm, but yes, having another child will look like me?" obviously pessimistic.

"Yes, it's okay, I'm happy, all my son's faces look like his mother's, but his life has to be the same as mine,"

***

After two hours of waiting, Windy finally came out of the surgical room. His eyes were still covered in bandages and he was unconscious. I also took the time to chat again with doctor Lukman. The man who was half a century old also explained about the course of the operation which was fairly successful and smooth.

Then soon Windy can see as usual. After chatting. I also told Andra to go back to the practice room again. While Andra accompanied Windy to the hospital room again. And I took a long step into the practice room to take off my service coat and pick up my briefcase that was still left there.

After the practice room, I saw that the room was neat, no more medical devices were lying on the table. All my assistants have tidied up, only my briefcase is still stored in the work chair. I took off this white coat I was wearing, and folded it and put it in a paper bag because I would replace it with a new one and the one I was wearing I would wash it at home.

While dressing up, I remembered the letter I had kept in the drawer this morning. I quickly picked it up and put it in my briefcase because I would be able to get home. When I have free time.

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