VENGEFUL SHACKLES

Re-encounter

"Doctor Joshep, there's a pediatric patient in the emergency room who needs your treatment!" a nurse ran into Joshep's room, a young doctor who had been on duty for several days at the hospital in the remote village.

Just now Joshep was about to feed the rice to his mouth, since morning he had not had time to eat breakfast, but only an hour later had gone into lunch.

This is how the fate of young doctors who just moved, must always be ready, especially this time his task at a small hospital on the island that can be said to be remote, where there is only one doctor every day who is standing there and must be able to handle all complaints, except for dental poly and gynecology, there are special doctors who come every two days to the hospital, sometimes they come once a week, unlike him who must always be ready every time there, he said, even the official house provided by the hospital for shelter is also located very close to the hospital, only about ten minutes if taken on foot, by foot, so if there is an emergency patient and he is at home also still called to come if there is no other doctor in the hospital.

Joshep closed the lunchbox again with his intention to eat for breakfast, but until near lunch time, still had not had time to touch.

"The five-year-old boy, symptoms of difficulty breathing, lips turning blue, seems to have a heart attack." The nurse explained to Joshep between them walking through the hallway to the emergency room.

Joshep's big step is now getting half-run after finding out if the patient is a small child, and the symptoms mentioned by the nurse earlier seem quite urgent.

Joshep immediately handled the boy who was now lying weakly in bed, deftly Joshep continued to try to restore the consciousness of the boy who almost lost his consciousness because his breathing began to weaken.

After about thirty minutes of struggling, inside the space filled with tools even though the tool was far from that sophisticated and complete word, it was, josep finally came out of the room that always made it look like he was on the battlefield.

Fighting to save the lives of people between life and death is not a trivial thing, it not only drains his energy, but also his mind, he said, he will be so relieved when he can get his patients out of danger, that sometimes he does not care about his own health for the health of others, ironic.

"How's Kevin doing, Doc?" Asked the middle-aged woman to scuttle Joshep's steps in front of the emergency exit.

"You're his mother, or?" Joshep was intrigued to know and was curious about what the patient's relationship with the middle-aged woman who was now questioning him was, because the woman looked very old if for the size of the little boy's mother.

"I'm his teacher, he passed out at school, so I brought him here." Answer the woman.

"Where are his parents?" Ask Joshep again.

"His mother is on her way here, thank God Kevin is fine, I can go back to school then, because her mother will be there soon too, thanks for her help Doc!" Said the woman bending her body forward.

"It's been my job." Joshep replied as he rushed towards his room again, his stomach really felt really hungry this time, there was no time for him to mince words any longer, no more, worms in his stomach have been protesting to be given food, besides he does not need to explain about the health of the child to the woman who delivered it, because the woman is not his family.

Previously Joshep had also left pesn to nurses there, to convey to the patient's family to meet him later in his room if it had arrived, if it had arrived, because there are some important things that he must convey to the patient's family.

Joshep's practice room door was knocked from the outside when he had just finished his delayed meal, "Get in!" he said as he tidied his lunch box into a bag and kept it in a drawer under the table.

"Josh-"

"Pula-"

Both of them similarly-sma muttered softly calling out each of the names of the people who were before them at this moment.

Until finally Joshep who first realized and can control the situation also controls himself, at this time he is a doctor, and must be professional behave like a doctor.

"Please enter!" Joshep was flat and coldly tidied, allowing the woman he had called by the name of Paula to come in and sit opposite him at his desk.

"Can I help you?" joshep asked as if he had never known the woman before him who had been his wife for only six months.

"My mother, I was told by the nurse to see Dr. Smith." Stuttering Paula who did not think at all that doctor Smith was meant by the nurse was Joshep Smith, her ex-husband five years ago, there are thousands of people named behind Smith, Smith, and Paula didn't think it was Joshep Smith.

"I? Tell the nurse to have you meet me?" Joshep's forehead is wrinkled.

"I'm Kevin's mother, the emergency patient you were treating earlier, said the nurse there are a few things you want to tell me about my son?" Paula's style of speech looks very awkward, as well as Joshep, people will never think if they ever love each other and are bound in a happy marriage even if only in a matter of months, if you look at their interactions like strangers.

"Kevin, is he your son? He's five years old, just like our farewell that's been going on for that long, is he your son with that man?" Guess Joshep.

As much as Joshep's energy refrained from being professional, he said, but his fortress was also destroyed when he heard the harsh reality that the boy he had just saved his life from death was the son of his ex-wife who was signaled the results of an affair when he was he caught Paula with a man in a hotel room, especially if using science fits again, the age of the boys is right with the time of their separation which is both already 5 years.

Instantly the shadow of Paula's treachery half-dead trying to forget is now imagined again, the scene where Paula sleeps almost naked in a hotel bed with a foreign man is now clearly reflected back in her memory makes her back in a blanket of hatred in her chest.

"Yes, he's my son. About whoever his father is, it's none of your business, aren't you here as a doctor, behave like a professional doctor!" Without being in pain, Paula is now showing the same anger that Joshep showed her.

"If I knew you were here, I wouldn't be willing to set foot in this remote town." Joshep.

"Do you think I'm very happy to meet you? If the world were to split in two, I would want to live in a part where there is no one in it!" paula won't lose.

Until finally a knock on a nurse's door stopped their debate, "The patient on behalf of Kevin in the emergency room relapsed again!" the nurse reports that Joshep and Paula are running to the emergency room.