VENGEFUL SHACKLES

I've forgotten!

Paula paces in front of the emergency room door where her son is being handled by Joshep, there was a bit of fear and worry that Joshep would not save his son given how much Joshep hated himself.

"Josh, ah, I mean Doctor Smith, how's my son doing?" Paula immediately rushed to Joshep who had just come out of the room where Kevin, a 5-year-old boy was treated.

"It's stable now, but it's still gonna have to monitor it for the next twenty-four hours. Your son has congenital heart disease?" joshep asked coldly, honestly he did not want to talk to Paula, but he said he was currently playing the role of a Doctor and not as a betrayed ex-husband, inevitably he still has to communicate with Paula who is the patient's parents who are in her hands at this time.

"Yes, Kevin suffered from a heart defect from birth, even since in the womb doctors have said that possibility." Answer Paula.

Paula's heart rippled and felt pain when she had to keep the baby in the womb at that time even though doctors said the worst possibilities if Kevn was born with a heart defect, but the decision was unanimous, she was determined to keep giving birth to her baby no matter what, no matter how difficult it might be.

"Is there a history of descent from his father or his father's family?" Joshep's question sounded a little cold when it came to Kevin's father.

"Emhh no, no." replied Paula, "However you may also have remembered that my father had heart disease as well." Connect Paula.

"I've never remembered anything that wasn't important in my life." Joshep sounded cold and a little cynical.

"Ah, sorry." Paula said softly, she forgot if Joshep sngat hates her, so she might fall into the category of things not important for her life so easily forget everything about her.

"You should take care of the administration for your child's hospitalization right away, and the nurse will monitor your son for twenty-four full hours." Joshep said as he glared and stepped away, he seemed very reluctant and allergic if lingering close to Paula.

"Well, thank you Doctor Smith!" paula said sincerely, even though her sincere speech did not get a reply from Joshep, Boro-boro replied to his words, turning his head even though he did not seem to be willing.

Paula steps towards the administration counter, but soon she looks confused when she sees the nominal she has to pay for her daughter's hospitalization.

"I'm sorry, can I pay the deposit half first, and I'll pay it off tomorrow?" Paula asked the administration officer inside the counter.

The two administrative officers throw one another gazes, they are really sorry for the state of Paula who looks confused, but again this is a hospital regulation that he can not be easily violated, he said, they are also just ordinary workers.

"Sorry ma'am, but the deposit fee must be paid in advance, then your son can be hospitalized." Bright officer though felt unbearable but had to still convey it.

"What if I ask for two hours to make money and I will return soon to pay for the lack of money" Paula asked again, she really has no money at this time.

No one would have thought if the woman in shabby clothes, and the greasy face mixed with street dust was once the wife of doctor Joshep.

Paula who used to always be a class champion and aspired to be a doctor, her appearance is now very much different from Paula who used to be a prima donna in school, beautiful and popular, she said, but now Paula no longer has time to take care of herself, her time is up to work and make money for her son, even a day twenty-four hours seras still less for him who works as a cashier in a mini market, and become a laundry worker in his spare time, he said, then provide tutoring for children in the neighborhood at night, all that Paula did for the sake of connecting life and also to buy drugs that her son must always consume continues to terrorize as long as his son has not been able to undergo surgery.

Not that Paula does not want to operate her son, just for the cost of daily living alone it still feels very less, for example now, for the cost of hospitalization alone she still has to find a loan.

Paula rushes to meet Victoria's mother, the owner of the mini market where she works, she intends to borrow money from him, she's Paula's only hope, but sometimes expectations don't match reality, victoria refused to give him a loan.

"Sorry Paula, but your previous debt is so much, it won't even be enough if you pay it with your salary for many years, I opened this store to make a profit, but if the profits continue to be panjami by you, long time my business will be out of business!" Reject Victoria cynically.

"I beg ma'am, I'll return it soon!" Paula has even now shed tears, she is confused where else to look for a loan.

"No, I can't give you a massage."

Everyone Paula meets and asks for help answers average ham, ppir the same, they do not want to give him a loan with their different reasons, making Paula finally feel desperate.

In her desperation, Paula returned to the hospital empty-handed, she did not go straight to the administration, but went straight to her son.

"Mom crying?" asked the little boy who could now sit on his bed to welcome Paula.

"No, I'm just happy because you look so much fresher." Paula answered wiping away the tears that kept flowing down her cheeks.

"Mom, I'm healthy now, do you want to pick me up to go home? Come on, mom, I'm going home!" Whine the boy.

"But the doctor hasn't allowed you to go home, and you still have to stay here."

"No, I don't want to ma'am, said my friend, when her mother was hospitalized, they had to sell their cows to pay the cost, while we didn't have any cows to sell, with what we pay for it, come on mom, let's just go home!" whining Kevin again makes Paula's heart feel like it's squeezed.

What kind of mother is she who even for her son's hospital expenses alone can't afford to pay, her inner.

With a heavy heart and with a very complicated procedure, Paula was finally able to bring Kevin home after tagging a statement if his return was of her own accord and would not demand anything on the hospital side if it happened something later in the day.

The next night when Joshep was on guard, he was confused to find Kevin in no room, "Where was the little patient who had the heart attack?" josep asked the nurse who accompanied him around that night, but the last patient he did not see Kevin, even though the boy should still be under his supervision.

"Ah that, Kevin? He went home forcibly" replied the nurse.

"Forced home? Don't his parents know if their child's illness is dangerous?" Annoyed joshep.

"Sorry doc, but it looks like they are constrained in the payment, his mother stated if she can't pay the deposit for her son's hospitalization fee."

"How much deposit do you have to pay?" ask Joshep curiously.

"Three million, doc."

'Oh shiiiiit, what really happened to you, why so much money you couldn't afford, what kind of life did you and your husband live, what kind of man did you choose, to the point of not being able to give you that kind of money for their son's recovery?' josep murmured in his heart feeling annoyed and sad with the life that Paula is living right now that is not like what.