Love Above the Heart
- Pain -

Erick entered a hospital, his roar of breath accompanying him every step of the way.

"Thank you for helping and bringing my wife here sir, how's my wife doing, now sir?" Erick asked Mr. Dahlan. The assistant who accompanied him worked diving in Jakarta.

"Mother is already in the room sir, please come in!" Said the man who was always polite.

Erick went into the nursery dominated by the white color. Erick slammed into the front of a woman who was lying weakly on a hospital bed. He kissed the back of her hand many times.

"Darling, I'm sorry!" Said raspy.

The woman lying down nodded weakly in front of her husband. Erick looked at the woman's face, Gia. Gia looked pale while forcing to smile.

*Flashback On

"Darling, today I think I want to meet Reza, hang out with the weekend mumpung. You go with yuk!" Erick invites Gia along with him to meet Reza, a friend during his college living in Jakarta.

For almost a month they settled in Jakarta, Erick who had promised to meet his old friend was also sad because his promise has not been fulfilled to this day.

The first weekend at his new residence, he had taken Gia for a walk around the city of Jakarta. Likewise, on the following weekend, he accompanied his wife shopping for household needs.

Today is the right day for Erick to meet with Reza, keeping his appointment. Reza had already back and forth suing him for the meeting. As an old friend who was friends quite familiar, Erick was very good at maintaining that good relationship. And again, he hadn't seen Reza in a long time. When Erick got married, Reza was out of the country and could not attend the event.

"You go by yourself, baby! That's your Man time!" gia replied casually.

"Again, some days my body feels heavy!" continued Gia again while still smiling looking at her husband.

"You sick? What's that sick? Is it still in the same section?" Erick stormed Gia with a question.

Erick had seen his wife groan several times in pain, even since he was still living in Erick's parents' house. He invites Gia to the doctor but is always rejected by Gia under the pretext that she may be sick because she is too tired.

"No-no, maybe I'm tired!" ucsp Gia stammered, always the same reason Gia spoke.

"If you're sick, I can't see Reza! I want to keep you at home." Erick.

"No! don't have. You promised, right? yaudah keep your promise with Reza, that abis just accompany me. I'm nothing." explained Gia rejected Erick's proposal. He doesn't want to limit Erick while it's still normal. Erick also needs to occasionally get together with his friends. It's impossible to be with Gia continuously.

After having a pretty weird debate, and Gia does not want to be denied again. Finally, with a heavy heart Erick went also to meet Reza. Before leaving, he sent a message to Bi Dijah, a middle-aged woman who works in this office house as a cleaner.

"Bi, I'm picking Gia up. He's not feeling well! If there's anything call me huh, Bi! " Erick said it with a condolent tone but was immediately asserted by Bi Dijah.

After nearly an hour of Erick's departure, he got a call from Bi Dijah who said that he found Gia lying unconscious in the tv room.

Erick immediately called and asked for help from Mr. Dahlan whose house is one area with Erick's official house, to take Gia to the hospital immediately. Because Erick's position is farther away and it will take longer to arrive home than Mr. Dahlan.

Erick resigned to Reza and ended their brief meeting just a few minutes later. Reza was not calm and let go of his best friend with a worried look.

*Flashback Off

Erick looked at his wife's white face without a hue. The lips that are always reddish pink are the same, pale.

"Where is sick, dear?" Erick asked Gia. His hands stretched out to the wife's face.

Gia shook her head, she did not want her husband to give her a hand. Erick gently stroked Gia's hair and temples with regret.

The door of the room opened from the outside. Indicates someone entered the room.

Erick nodded weakly.

"Can we talk about your wife's condition, sir!" Ask the doctor again.

"Please doctor! How is my wife? What pain is he doctor?" Erick asked politely.

The doctor glanced at his patient who was lying weak. Gia started to close her eyes, it seemed like the medicine the doctor gave her was working and made her slightly sleepy.

"Can we talk in my room, sir. Let the patient rest!"

Erick followed the doctor's steps and sat right in front of him when he reached the room four times four.

"Dok, what's my wife sick?" erick asked the doctor for an answer.

"Look sir, according to the examination, Ms. Gia has chronic kidney problems" explained the doctor slowly.

"What?" Erick was shocked and did not believe the doctor's words.

Momentary silence.

"How can my wife recover, doctor?" Erick's eyes began to glaze over at the face of the wife.

"In this case, your wife needs to undergo dialysis. This procedure is needed to filter extra fluid and waste out of the blood. Other terms Blood wash." Obviously the doctor.

"But, Dialysis can help treat kidney disease but it can't cure it." Call the doctor again.

Erick bowed lethargicly, deep down, thinking his wife was pregnant. She hoped Gia could conceive her child again like that time. Erick wants to make amends for Gia. But why is the truth not on his side now? Is this the reward for the sins he committed?

"What can cure him doctor?" Erick was lethargic. He looked like a desperate man, but the trials for his household had just begun.

"Kidney transplantation may be another treatment option, depending on the patient's circumstances" the doctor said later.

Erick's tears fell and over time dried up on his cheek.

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Erick peeked at his wife from the outside through the small, transparent glass in the middle of the door. Erick saw the woman lying weakly wrapped in a blanket and her hands were adorned with an infusion hose.

It's so sudden for Erick. Just now it feels like this morning he ate Gia's cooking food before starting his activities. Even Gia peeled him an apple, and Erick asked to be fed by his wife. As the youngest child, Erick often behaved in a manner that was always warmly welcomed and smiled by his wife.

"Darling, you're definitely cured!" Erick said as if talking to his wife who was in the nursery.

"I will do anything for your recovery!" Erick said with confidence in himself.

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