The Colorful Work World
Ch. 92 Mbah Kakung Groomed

Still in WFH. Sometimes I also replace my father to keep the altar at night. Somehow Mbah sometimes still need an escort even though at home there is a nurse. Maybe he misses his kids or some other reason. This is also often done when I was still teaching first, because teaching is still one city with a hometown.

One day I asked my father to do it “Yes, Mbah you are afraid of the money. You see, the money is a lot and he does not easily trust people. Therefore he always asked for company at night.” Whether or not that is the reason of the father.

If it is not papa at all. But every night, tired of this body. Fortunately to keep this up, all of my oms and tanti do it in turns.

One of the things that until now I regret is ever snapping because my protests over time came.

“Old Ray comes!”

“Sabar toh mbah, this also finished praying directly here. Time cannot pray first. Will it be a sin if you do not pray first?”

After saying this, I feel guilty, but it can be simpler. Just do the prayer at the place of the mbah. Rather than me yelling at an old man like that, it would be best if I were to find a way out like that. O Allah, may my brother forgive the mistakes of the grandchildren who still make this mistake, O Allah.

After I said that, he immediately fell silent and returned to his room. This is still quite healthy and still often go for a walk. Somehow over time, the physical condition decreases continuously. Most likely the trigger was when his wife died, in the sense that the woman was gone.

At that time I was still in college so I could not attend the funeral. But I had a chance to visit his grave while I was visiting my hometown. Since the absence of the princess, the mbah son's physical condition has decreased and become more spoiled and asked to always be accompanied by his son while sleeping at night.

This situation has continued to happen since I graduated from college until now. There are also times when conditions grow mbah ngedrop for certain reasons. The medical reasons that I have until now do not really understand. Either lack of nutrition or malnutrition what is the name. But as far as I've heard, if there's less nutrition than his body. His body condition will drop.

Often he was referred to the hospital. If you remember, one day before I worked in Tangerang. He was referred to a hospital in Bogor. In addition to Bogor, Mbah has also been treated at a city hospital near home because of the same welds. Indeed, if you are old, it is not surprising that you often go back and forth to the hospital. I am sad to see it happen to Mbah and pray for a speedy recovery.

Fortunately there are still nurses who help our family to keep the mbah. because all their children are busy working each so they do not have time at all times to take care of it. But of course, if you need something or call his son. All the children closest to him immediately went to face him.

This incident continued to pass until in the end, the angel of life came to give bad news to the family. Mbah died in 2021. The main cause of his death was.Covid 19.

At that moment I was called by one of my tanti. He is the younger brother of the father who gave about the current condition of Mbah who is being treated at a hospital near the house. Later that night, he will be sent to the hospital because the ICU room special covid in this hospital is inadequate.

“Ray, later nemenin mbah yes, let aunt husband no nemenin”

By trying to resist the upset tone I replied “Bok tanit, later I sent to Bogor.” I would not accept the impromptu request and without any prior notice. Not paid anyway.

This escort was carried out to deliver the mbah from the city to Bogor. The journey there takes about 5 hours. Of course, we did this while following the ambulance for the trip there. I really don't like being told this way. But because I happen to be WFH, I want to be exposed to the sap. Instead of bothering later the impression is only because they refuse to deliver Mbah kakung only.

We leave town at night. Before leaving, I had prepared myself with dinner and brought provisions and other preparations. Mbah's condition worsened and had to be brought to Bogor because he was exposed to a virus that is rife at this time, covid.

I don't know why he got the virus. He never went out of the house at all. That's why we had suspected that one of the outsiders who often entered the house carried the virus. But because it is not good to play show people, we just just know and be careful. Do not judge the person, whether the person is conscious or not.

Before leaving, we had to take care of the documents first. Therefore, I've been on standby at the hospital to take care of the permit to use an ambulance. Because the process of sending patients risk like Mbah must be with a fairly large document process.

While waiting for the paperwork, I also prepared an e-money card for the trip later. Fortunately my phone now has NFC so there is no need to stop by indomaret again to top up the card. A few hours after waiting, we finally started to leave for Bogor.

Inside the hospital, my mother and aunt took care of the paperwork for the transfer of patients from here to the bogor hospital. I'm with my aunt husband just sitting back for a break. Because then we will have a long journey.

“Be careful Ray on the road, do not get to sleep yes, temenin omnya”

“Good bu”

After saying goodbye to those in the hospital, I went to Bogor along with my omku and the nurse mbah. We followed the ambulance into the toll and continued until it reached RSUD Bogor. Because that's where my other tantes practice as a doctor..

During the trip, as much as possible I had a conversation with Iskandar. He was afraid to sleep on the road so I always tried to find a safe topic to talk about. During the trip I wore a strict program so it was very difficult if I wanted to eat or drink. Breath is too tight, let alone do something else.

As a result, during the journey for hours my water did not get food and drink intake at all. The trip was also quite challenging, because if by ambulance, of course we are a priority road users so all cars that block the road must be out of the way to give way to us.

Om Iskandar looked towards the back of the car and said to me “Tuh, look at Ray. We have something to follow, hahaha”

I looked back and sure enough, there was a car following us. Surely if you follow the back of the ambulance, they can also go faster on the way. Because the car in front will certainly move away. But usually, they follow only a few minutes, because the route is different from ours.

Several times we experienced when the ambulance passed, the car in front had given way. But when we want to pass, uh instead the car returned to the previous path so that makes us unable to pass.. Om Iskandar directly honks the car and luckily no problems occurred along the way.

As we were about to get to the bogor area, suddenly the ambulance in front of us stopped.

“Why did they stop om” Tanyaku to om Iskandar who was beside me.

“Not knowing, try asking them.”

We drove up next to him and asked the ambulance driver. Car glass we open then I say “Why pack stop?”

The ambulance driver whose face was not visible because he was wearing a mask replied to me “First sir, we do not know the way. We will follow from behind.”

Hearing the driver's answer, I and Iskandar to each other. Then we planted the gas and moved to the front of the ambulance. An ambulance driver may not know the way to the hospital. Just-there's. This is called staff lack of preparation. What will happen next on this journey?

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