I'm a Japanese housewife living in Japan. I'm in my 60's. I want to know daily lives in the world, so at first I'll tell my daily. What is your daily life?
Yesterday I participated in an online English coversation meeting. There were four Japanese ladies.
After the meeting , I organized my thoughts.
◆Do you think that you have a healthy brain? Why or why not?
It’s an interesting question, isn’t it? what is the definision of "a healthy brain"? My brain is appropriate for my age. It means I often feel my age. The older we get, the easier we loose our memoryies.
◆Do you usually make decisions with your brain or with your heart?
It depends on the situation. At first I think my physical strength. It means I make my decisions mainly with my brain. When I was young I used to follow my intution and my feeling.
◆What animals do you think are highly intelligent?
Dolphins, monkeys, dogs, and so on. Sorry if you are a cat parson -- I don't add cats on my list. Additionally we used to have a cat.
◆If you could get a brain implant to make you smarter, would you do it?
I wouldn’t do it. Because if I were smarter than now, I would like to be much smarter. It’s endless.
However if we could get a brain implant to stop dementia, I might do it. I would keep myself.
◆What does your brain spend the most time thinking about?
Nowadays, my brain is full of "meals". what should I cook for our lunch and dinner? It is a usual thing.
But it 's too hot to have enough appetite, So what do "I" want to eat?
And the other day I suffered from sever heat fatigue. At that time I was thinking what I could eat.
Probably my brain doesn’t work so hard, I do what I can do now.
◆How do you think sleep affects the brain?
Good and enough sleep is the most important to keep our health and a healthy brain.
When I can’t take enough sleep, I am out of it on the day.
It is a calm morning, though it is already hot outside.
His pneumonia has got better. Additionally taking no chemotherapy seems to lessen his side effects ironically.
Anyway we should keep our daily life, and do what we can do now.
Yesterday finally I went to the gym and did one circuit exercise.
I got lots of cucumbers from our neighbor. So I made cucumber smoothie. The ingredients are thin sliced cumbers, yoghurt, and canned pineapples. It was tasty. I found a good way to use up lots of fresh cucumbers. Making pickles is of course one of the way to use them up.
Yesterday, I washed my cotton white blouse, and ironed. One of my house errands I don’t like is ironing. Usually I wear a T-shirt without ironing, this time I need to or I feel to wear cotton blouse. I like the blouse so I keep it for a long time to handle it carefully. Ironing is too hot.
It is Saturday. Fortunately Yuki didn’t need to be hospitalized, though he has to continue taking steroid medicine to heal pneumonia for two weeks. And unfortunately his chemotherapy is stopped. The chemotherapy this time he takes seems to work on the CT image. The docomo seems to think what caused his pneumonia. Did it come from summer cold? If it is right it seems to be too long. Did it comes from radiation or ICI he took before? Or is it a side effect of this chemotherapy?
What we are afraid is having on treatments. But anyway it is impotent to heal his pneumonia.
According to the weather report it won’t be hot like yesterday. So he is going to “meet” his tennis mates.
My husband Yuki and I live in a regional city. Our retirement life has state since 2020. Though Something good, exciting, worried or bad often happens, we try to focus the current situation and spend enjoyable days while living offf our savings little by little carefully.
