THE BIRTH OF MY CHILD Chapter 7
THE BIRTH OF MY CHILD
Chapter 7
The moment I heard the word OPERATION, my mood changed. I became super afraid. I looked at mother and could sense uneasiness written all over her face but she was trying to look calm.
“Why operation doctor?” She asked
“Well, the child is bridged and so operation is the only route for us but first thing first, you have to sign a document to show that you agreed to it and so in case of anything, we won’t be held responsible” the doctor concluded
“How much is for the operation?” My mother asked the doctor
“Prepare around 80k” the doctor responded
My mother was beginning to show emotions little by little but still trying to hold it back at the same time.
She immediately picked her phone and called Benjamin who didn’t waste time to answer the call.
“Joseph, the doctor said na operation them go do and so try to prepare 80k for the operation. We are waiting in the hospital” she said and then ended the call
Benjamin later told me how his head became so hot. His monthly salary at that time was around 16k and he just started the work.
He tried to get an advanced payment from his boss after relating the situation to his boss but the man disagreed. The man who was a Pastor asked him to go to his own church to ask his Pastor and ask for help and the reason he said that was because the boss owns a church and Benjamin doesn’t like worshipping in his church.
“The only thing I can do for you is to allow you to go source for money elsewhere and won’t hold it against you that you are absent from work today” that was the last thing the boss said to Benjamin
And so, Benjamin left work that day thinking so deep on how to get 80k for the operation and it was at that moment he knew 9 months was enough to raise something tangible for the hospital bills but he was relaxed about it with the excuse that it wouldn’t cost more than 20k for the delivery not knowing an operation is possible.
Tbc