Sulastri's Struggle.
Chapter 17
Have you gone home, son?" santi asked when Eko, her first son, approached her mother in the hospital room.
"Yes Mom, how are you?" Eko approached the sleeping Suryo sir.
"Yes Le, we have to be ready for 10 million in operating expenses" Santi looked at her husband in tears.
Eko took a deep breath and then moved away from the bed. He came out of the room and sat in the waiting room.
Eko grabbed her hair riled up. As the oldest boy, he felt guilty for not being able to do anything, when his father was sick like this.
"How do you feel sad for Le?" ms. Santi followed Eko.
"I came home early, Mom, before it was time to go home. I'm annoyed, Mrs Sulis is stingy, I've been working for a long time, but why when you ask for help borrowing money so stingy!" gerutu Eko's.
"Seettt... can not be so, the mother borrowed it we can not force, thank God, if we are loaned, but. if not, yes already!" advice from Santi. That's how Miss Santi even though her heart was very sad, she did not show it too much in front of her children.
"Yes ma'am, but it was during this time my father worked for many years has never been named to borrow money, or demand a salary up, but Mr. Sulis notya lend money even angry, angry, like his treasure would be taken to death!" Eko kept ranting.
"Indeed Mr Burhan is no le?" ask Santi's mom.
"No ma'am, he's going into town, checking the plantation there."
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At 4 am, Pastri is now getting off the bus by chance the city bus he was riding on passed in front of the hospital. From Jakarta he did not intend to go home first. He walked quickly down the hospital hallways.
"Sir I want to ask, pasean named Mr. Suryono treated in what room?" ask Lastri to the receptionist.
"But yes Ma'am" the reviewer opened a book looking for Suryono's name.
"Oh in the orchid room no three Mbak" replied the resefsionis.
"Thank you sir" after getting an answer, Lastri immediately searched the room. He looked at the door and pushed it. There were three patients lined up in the orchid room no three. Lastri opened the patient barrier one by one. It turns out that Mr. Suryo is at the very end.
Lastri stared at the bed, looking like the mother he missed was sleeping next to her husband with a sitting position with both hands tilted to the left.
Mas Eko slept on a mat on the floor, visibly covered in a jacket without blankets.
Lastri approached her sleeping father as well.
He walked on his tiptoes so as not to disturb their sleep. Mr. Suryo was seen in pairs of infusion hose thin body. As the tears of Lastri dripped, it felt like wanting to immediately embrace the frail body of his father but was afraid to wake up.
When the beginning of Lastri left for Jakarta, Mr. Suryo was fresh in shape, but now inversely proportional face pale, his cheeks look deflated because of thin. Likewise with his mother looking tired on the face, and a little skinny. Naturally, who is not sad to see her husband sick.
"Hiks hyks hyks" cried the girl of high stature until it broke even though she had been resistant since.
"Lastri.." Suryo opened his eyes at the cry of his third daughter.
"Mr..." Lastri was crying on his father's chest his body was shaking. Mr. Suryo rubbed his son's head dear. The hand rub that Lastri always misses, when he was a child he always felt every before going to bed.
"Father why...what pain.must be Mr. exhausted. Hiks hiks hik" Lastri frowns with a hiccup.
"Father it's okay, son, just catch a cold" comforted Mr. Suryo. "You go home with who Nak is" said Mr. Suryo diverted.
"Himself" Lastri was no longer able to answer because he kept crying.
Lastri's cry woke up her mother and woke up including Mas Eko.
"Lastri... Are you home, son?" ms. Santi walked quickly to her son who was still lying face down in the chest of Mr. Suryo.
"Mom... What are you sick about, how many days have you been in the hospital?" lastri asked still crying wet Santi's mom's shirt.
Miss Santi just kept quiet how to explain.
"Tri, you better rest first, I'll tell you later" Eko replied.
Lastri took off his opener and then turned back to look at Mas Eko. "Mas Eko is evil! You're sick don't want word" Lastri banged Eko's chest softly.
"Mas Eko is right, son, you should rest, we'll tell you later" Santi's mom calmed her son.
Lastri also wiped her tears relented according to what Santi said.
There was an early morning prayer Eko invited Lastri to morning prayers at the hospital mosque. After the prayer, Lastri was a little calmer, then asked Eko about his father's illness.
"Now tell me Mas, what are you sick with?"
Eko tells about the illness suffered by his father, had to operate and how much he had to spend. But Eko did not tell, that he had intended to borrow money from Sulis, if his sister knew it would be angry.
"Yes Mas, the problem of cost, I have prepared, the important thing is that you recover quickly" said Lastri relieved Eko, but Eko looked at his sister could not bear.
Eko again sad why only his sister this one who is always burdened with any costs in his family.
"I can help the deck, but Mas only has two million" Eko does have savings, but only two million, he said, that waspun usually used to help Santi ma'am every day to transport the three lastri sisters who are still SMK, Junior High School and SD.
Eko does work, but his salary in the area is certainly only half the salary in the City. Not to mention his salary was painted by Mr. Sulis without the knowledge of Mr. Burhan.
"No need Mas, the money is saved, if I can not send money next month to pay for school for younger brothers, please pay first yes" said Lastri.
"Yes deck, now we go to Father's room, I will definitely change prayers"
Lastri nodded then returned to the room.
At nine o'clock in the morning, Lastri has paid off the administration, because at 11 o'clock will be operated.
Even so, Lastri remains grateful, in Jakarta people who already know the results of their stitches are always subscribed. Otherwise, how will it pay off the cost of his father's operation.
"Sir, how are you?" tanya Dwi she just arrived at the hospital.
"Mbak Dwi... good news Ma'am, yes Allah... it turns out Mbak is already pregnant big?" Lastri didn't know if her sister was pregnant, naturally. He's gone for a year.
"Alhamdulillah Dek, it has been seven months" they then chat at length, telling each other's circumstances.
It is time for the operation of Mr. Suryo to be carried out. All stiffened waiting in front of the opration room.
Lastri always prayed that his surgery would be launched and his father would be able to recover as he had been.
"Family Mr. Suryono.." there was a loud voice of the sisters.
"I Sus" Lastri, Santi and Eko's mom approached.
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"Assalamualaikum. sorry reader, Mak always late up. Actually want up every day, but what's the power of real-world work is time-consuming,"
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