The Sweetest Harsh
Episode 87 - The End of the Wait

Hospital hallway ceilings that occasionally feature bright, long neon lights, Alfa, who appeared to be holding a push bed, lay with a pale face and several doctors and nurses who accompanied her short trip in the hospital corridor …. Ah, Tiara can't remember everything. The bleeding made his body completely limp and his consciousness float more and more, not to mention the pain that over time began to come, and .... baby ... what about the baby? The woman seemed to have shouted loudly and moved strongly to be able to reach anything she saw faintly, but what came out of his mouth was just a small groan that could only be heard by his own ears.

The woman was taken to the operating room. His body was weak and he could no longer open his eyes. Tiara tensed for a moment as she felt her right hand being fitted with an infusion hose. And the last thing he could record clearly was when the doctor put a mask containing drugs to deliver it to the dark world that made him not remember anything else. Carefully, the doctor immediately performed an intubation technique by inserting a device to view the airway and endotracheal tube into the oral cavity, keeping the woman able to breathe during unconsciousness. After that, the cesarean section began.

Alfa sat beside his wife's head with a trembling body. How not? He watched without missing a second the complicated procedure performed by the officers in the tense room to Tiara. At the moment, almost a clear circle of his eyes that flowed as he watched the condition of the woman he loved was helpless with a breathing apparatus that he could not imagine what it would be like if applied in a conscious state. Feel how the laryngoscope is inserted into the mouth to the throat, then repeated with the inclusion of the endotracheal tube. The man felt tormented by what his eyes could catch. A struggle that left her breathless as Tiara had to go through so many steps to give birth to their son.

The man whispered in his own heart that he would do anything to make his woman happy. What a state of silence Tiara, but in such a state it seemed to shout it with the words of judgment, Alfa, has come to a willingness between life and death for me to fight this time. I know you understand what you have to do to raise a smile on my lips. No, I'm not asking for any change in this. I love you, I love you, and it is with this that I shall redeem our happiness at a later time. Yep. He knew, Tiara would definitely talk like that later.

Alfa folded her lips and closed her eyes. The words in his heart seemed to be uttered by Tiara entirely and made him tormented because he could do nothing. The man imagined himself on the bed, holding in fear when all the beats of his life could be heard through beeps on the monitor screen. Expect the sound to be continuously constant and the grass graph to show stability.

The man once again looked straight at his wife's face, staring with his growing love, making her want to continue to hold her. How he had nothing to repay all his efforts in those minutes. How he wanted to see those two eyes open and give him good news.

Until that voice is heard. The sound of a small cry behind the blue curtain that really made his heart flutter. A doctor held a small baby wriggling in the arms of his hands towards him. His son was born!

“Congratulations Sir, your baby is male and healthy,” said the doctor showed the baby for a moment near Alfa before returning to bring it to the table for cleaning.

Tiara's husband covered his face with both palms. Muffle the explosion of novelty and the unbearable sense of happiness that covers it today. Many times he whispered words of praise to God for the abundance of joy that finally approached. Alfa stared unblinkingly at the baby. He was stunned to see the first seconds of his son trying to breathe the air of the world.

A few minutes later, doctors and nurses were preoccupied with the process of suturing the incision on the stomach Tiara. Ensure that the procedure has been completed and ended safely. Then, the breathing apparatus was released, the woman's body was cleaned and taken to the treatment room for recovery.

The bed was pushed out of the operating room along with Alfa who also stepped foot. The man approached Helmia who was waiting in front of the room. With a stifled sobbing, he hugged the middle-aged woman who also felt happiness.

“My son was born Ma ... My baby is a boy,” said Alfa in between her arms stammered.

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Silent. There was nothing to hear but a minute clink on the wall clock installed in the room. The complex events that could not be sorted in the woman's memory made her forehead shrivel, trying to dig deeper into what she was currently experiencing. As consciousness slowly approached, Tiara was immediately greeted by a shiver all over her body, her hands trembling and her throat feeling dry to the point that it was difficult to move her tongue.

This uncomfortable situation again. It felt like he was familiar with this situation before. A situation where he felt chained by the pain all the time that was so fond of his weak body.

Alfa put her communication device back into her pants pocket and was shocked when she saw that her wife's eyes had opened.

“Sayang.” The man hurriedly approached, bowed his body and kissed Tiara's forehead closing his eyes. Fondling at the touch of his lips to his wife's pale skin with gratitude. Finally the woman returned.

Alfa sat herself down on a chair beside the bed, took a glass of water with a straw and brought her close to her mouth. “Minum,” command. Tiara excitedly gulped down until the water was a quarter left.

“Our child .. how?” The woman asked in a hoarse voice.

The man rubbed Tiara's forehead with a soothing smile. “She ... is fine, is fast asleep in the baby's room. Doctors and nurses will come and check on you and bring our son here,”.

Tiara closed her eyes. Pass a drop of water from its neutral angle. His lips thinned withstanding the cry he really had to endure because his frail body was still painful to move. The dreams? Is this a dream?

Alpha wiped the clear circle. Gluing Tiara's cheeks slowly. “Thank you,” cleanly. “Thank you for everything ...” He kissed his wife's fingers at a glance, then held the tiny head in the arms. Not knowing how else to express the happiness that is going on in their hearts. Tiara put her husband's head back. His eyes are wet.

Shortly afterwards, the man distanced his body, along with the open door of the room. Doctors and nurses were seen entering the room followed by Helmia who pushed the push-box that was being slept with by a tiny baby with a bright green blanket.

Tiara was inexhaustibly looking at the crib until it stuck to her bed. Staring with the face of his son who looked calm. The baby had thick black hair and clean white skin with a pointed nose. His chest was seen rising and falling regularly and his hand that emerged from under the blanket really made Tiara impatient to immediately touch her hand.

Doctors examined Tiara for a moment before the nurse picked up the baby and helped Tiara to breastfeed her baby. With her position still on her back, the woman held the body of her son who was put to sleep on her chest. Oh, that's very clever. His son immediately responded so close to the breast buds of his mother, sipping it for a while as if anxious to immediately be able to suckle.

The woman was unusually full and rubbed her baby's back slowly. Forgetting the discomfort that seemed to disappear instantly as soon as he held his son in his arms.

Tiara had almost forgotten that the wheel of life kept turning and time was giving her a chance to be happy. The woman did not expect that she could feel this pleasure as well. Sharing love with his son.

"Gheo Keylan" Alfa told the nurse, who made Tiara and the man look at each other with a smile. The nurse immediately wrote the name on the note and also the crib where the child fell asleep.