One Big Dipper Two Love
Chapter 98
Before I go on, I want to tell you a little bit. To be honest I was shaking about Nata getting cervical cancer. Especially when I write nights. It was shaking plus goosebumps.
A year and a half ago, I died of cervical cancer. Actually in June 2021. This house is teteh in-law (wife of my brother's sister). But I was closer to my brother-in-law than her husband, who was my sister. That's why I lost so much.
She had never complained of pain. At first the right thigh until the knee was swollen, and we thought it was gout. Then the next one complained of pain in the hip. If again the pain, the pain is extraordinary, sitting can not, sleep can not. Every night can not sleep because it continues to cry, do not bear the same pain. Her bed while standing in the arms of her husband. It was just a second of two.
Unable to endure the pain, he was eventually taken to the hospital. At the beginning of the hospital, just a few hours straight home. When infused, the pain goes away, so immediately ask to go home. But, if it has arrived at the hospital, the pain is crumpled again. For two months it was in and out of the hospital.
Initially the doctor diagnosed the drops there is a pinched nerve, because it is complained that the hip and spine that makes sitting and sleeping (collapse) can not be. Plus Teteh told the doctor that he had fallen from a mango tree ten years ago. But strangely enough, the X-ray results showed no pinched nerves.
Until finally, regardless of how many times you go to the hospital, the doctor does an ultrasound. It was only then that it was discovered that there was a tumor in the uterus. And after doing further examination, the doctor stated Teteh suffered from stage 3 cervical cancer. The cancer has spread everywhere, including to the hips and urinary tract. Then the doctor gives a referral to be treated at RSCM. Because in regional hospitals, there is no treatment for cancer patients.
Fortunately, the boss at my brother (husband Teteh) works to provide a respensation for work time so that my brother can focus on accompanying his wife's treatment. When Teteh entered RSCM, at that time the covid virus was rife.
A week in RSCM, you can still wait for Teteh. In the second week, you should not wait because the doctor stated that Teteh was exposed to covid. And a few days later, the doctor reported the sad news that Teteh died.
Tetah who was only two weeks treated at RSCM and was battling cancer was instead declared dead from the covid virus. Maybe this is the best for the late so as not to linger feeling pain. So, if calculated, Teteh felt pain for about three months only.
I if you've inget almarhumah Teteh, rubbing my tears mili.
Allahummagfirlaha warhamha wa afiha wa’fu anha.
That's just the story. (Mak othor nih, in front he said he wanted to tell a little story, it turned out to be long too. This is one chapter of his story 🙄)
Finally, hopefully all of us, the women are kept away from the name of cervical cancer which is said to be the number one female killer in Indonesia.
Okay let's continue the story of three uh now four human children, namely Harum, Hanges, Nata and Yuda.
Although the idea is not smooth, try to keep going. Because I'm the kind of writer who doesn't like to hang stories.
Ntunizen: Yes, yes. Now go on and see the beautiful Yeni Tea.
Othor: Thanks mom-mak Entunizen (when muji dwek wkwkwkwk).
I feel pursued by sin if it is written, but not finished. Although not smooth up is not anything, please understand. Her name is also the mother of one child, husband of two. Oops back, husband one, son two. Wkwkwk
Ntunizen: Setoooooop!
Othor: Uh yes, sorry, sorry, sorry, hampura.
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Two years later.
“Mamiiiii!” The girl who wore a green veil in line with her school uniform ran to hug the beautiful woman in a wide hijab who was waiting for her on the terrace of the school Taman Kanak-Kan Islam.
The little girl who was Harum grabbed the hand of the veiled woman for salim.
“Where was the school, honey? Happy?” ask the woman in the sky blue veil and wearing a dark blue robe which is Harum, the ex-wife of Hangga.
“Senaaaang,” replied Little fragrant cheerful.
“Some naughty ones didn't earlier?”
“Nothing. If there are naughty ones too I will not cry, I already want to enter SD.”
“Smart, his son Papi. Kiss me first ah. Mmmuach.” It's good to smell the gaunt cheeks of that pretty little girl with wiry eyes. “Kok mami don't get kissed? Kiss mommy also dong.”
“Mmmuach. Fragrant dear Mami,” said Little fragrance ended with a big smile.
“Mami dear Beautiful fragrant,” reply Fragrant damaged the top of the head Small fragrant hooded.
“Come we go home!” Fragrant holding hands Little fragrance.
“Kok home, Mi? We're going to have lunch with Papi?”
“We go home first, Harum Darling. Later Papi will pick us up and Oma at home.”
“If Papi lies again how, Mi?”
“Insyaallah Papi won't lie again.”
The two women named Harum swung a step towards the guardians' car park. Toyota Agya white color that became their step goal.
Harum opened the front passenger door for Little Fragrance. After making sure the little girl was sitting sweetly and closing the door of her car, she got into the car and sat behind the wheel.
“Read the prayer first dong,” said Harum while turning on the car engine.
Then the two of them raised their hands and prayed together. “Bismilbornrahmanirrahim. Subhaanalladzii sakkhara lanaa hadza wama kunna lahu muqriniin wa-inna ilaa rabbina lamunqalibuun. That is, the Most Holy of God who has subdued for us this vehicle. Whereas before we were unable to master it, and it is only to You that we will return.”
After praying, Harum drove a car, creeping on the density of the Jakarta highway. That's how fragrant it is now. He is very good at driving four-wheeled vehicles.
After leaving the hospital after a miscarriage two years ago, Harum thought to stay in Lampung City and find work on Seberang Island. He wants to live a new life and leave all the drama of his life in a place far away and unreachable by Hangga, Nata or his former in-laws.
That was when Yuda offered her a job. At first Yuda hesitated to offer the job for fear of offending Harum. Beyond a doubt, Harum instead accepted it with pleasure.
“Begini, Fragrant. I work in Jakarta, while my mother and daughter live in Lampung and always refuse to be invited to live in Jakarta. I need someone to accompany my mother and daughter here. Fragrant this year is going to Kindergarten and I need someone who can take Harum to school. Harum babysitter who had resigned because she was getting married, while the housekeeper who used to help the mother's work at home, could not if you had to take care of Harum as well. I really need a babysitter for my daughter. I want ...”
“I want, Sir,” replied Harum quickly then.
“Sorry, Fragrant. But this job doesn't suit your diploma. Oya, sorry. When you passed out, I ransacked your bag to find a number or whatever it was about your family. And I found your diploma.”
“Nothing, Sir. I want. My education is also not high.”
Harum becomes the nanny of Yuda's daughter. He accompanied little Harum to study, play, and shuttle school. In between his work, he also received orders for donuts, sponge, and other cakes. Many friends of Bu Yusma who have become his subscription.
On the way, Harum and daughter Yuda's relationship was even like a mother and child.
One day, Harum finds the daughter of Judah crying. “Harum beautiful, why cry?” ask Harum then.
“I'm sad. My friends all have mama, have mother, have mother, have mommy, but Harum. Huuu, huuu.”
“Harum will have Mami, but Mami Harum already in heaven,” replied Harum at that time.
“I want to be like friends who have mom in the world. Beautiful sister, can't I call mami aja?”
The incompetent fragrance held back the haru, nodding in agreement. And from then on, Yuda's daughter called him ‘Mami’.
Yuda also teaches Harum to drive a car to make it easier for Harum to pick up his daughter. At first Harum rejected Yuda's wishes.
“Pak, how about motor only. God willing I can bring a motor,” Harum bargain when Yuda forced him to learn to drive a car.
“This Lampung, Fragrant. If bringing a motor here is more dangerous,” kilah Yuda.
“Kok that, Sir?”
“You know what Lampung is famous for?” ask Yuda.
Harum frowned for a while to look for the answer. “The famous one from Lampung was ... Andika Kangen Band,” he replied.
Yuda held a smile. “The famous one from Lampung was two. First Kangen Band. The second legal,” sahutnya. (Sorry residents of Lampung, this is a joke from the original people of Lampung itself. 🙏🙏)
“Begal, Sir?”
“Hem. That's why you bring a car to pick up Harum. And I'll teach you how to drive while enrolling you into a car steering course."
“Good, Sir.”
“Oya, one more. Don't call me Father because I haven't been father-father,” protest Yuda. “Eng, I mean, I am a father, but I am not old. My age is only three five.”
“Oh. Indeed younger than my previous estimate,” said Fragrant.
“You guess how old I am?”
“34 years 11 months,” said Fragrance without sin that makes Yuda upset accompanied by laughter.
That was the conversation Harum and Yuda had two years ago. Conversations that make the relationship of the two who were originally stiff become more fluid and relaxed.
After a year of living in Lampung, Yuda asked Harum for help to persuade his mother and daughter to move to live in Jakarta. Bu Yusma and Little Fragrance who always refused the invitation of Judah, instead immediately agreed when Harum persuaded.
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A man wearing a grey shirt with his arms rolled up to his elbows, swung a step past the row of gravestones.
The white man crouched down when he reached a patch of land measuring 1.5 x 2.5 meters covered with fresh Japanese grass. Placing a flower on the grave with the name of a woman on it, the man began chanting prayers in his heart.
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Cut it here ah let's be curious. Who is that guy? Is Hangga?
