Good morning 1129

 

It is sunny. In the morning Yuki is going to be discharged from the hospital.

Yesterday, I didn’t visit the hospital. However he seemed to be busy. Because our daughters called him in turn. So he could kill the time. 

This afternoon, probably we will go grocery shopping, mainly “sake”. 

November is almost finished. 

Good morning 1128

 

Yuki is all right. He continues this immunotherapy. 

We will be able to spend usual weekend, it means Yuki will go playing tennis.

To tell the truth I become negative easily. December is just around the corner. 

I will walk to the bank to record transactions in our passbooks. Are you surprised? I still record them manually. I keep household account! Though I use an app. I am really stingy! But sometimes I am really generous, especially Costco day. Usually we present something new we get there to our friends. 

Good morning 1127

 

It is cloudy. It is a quiet morning. 

Yesterday it was a long day. Yesterday we could talk with the doctors longer than usual. It is interesting, the doctor says I have time to patients who are hospitalized. 

If any allergy symptom doesn’t happen after the first immunotherapy today, he will come home on Friday. He continues coexisting with his tumors taking another immunotherapy. The probability of occurring pneumonia is higher than before after he takes it a few times.

In the morning I will (should) go to the gym. In the afternoon I will go to Karaku to talk with the master, on the way home I stop by the hospital. Now visitors to the hospital go in to the patients’ room directly. And it is permitted to talk for 15 minutes. Last year we couldn’t because of coronavirus pandemic.

Good morning 1126

 

It is cold, but sunny. We go to a clinic in the morning then we go to the hospital. Yuki for a while is hospitalized.

 Now we are taking what we will eat outside for our lunch.  It is a calm morning. 

I talked a staff of the library. I am going to donate my English picture book collection.  Most of them are paper book.  They usually don’t accept paper books, but they have few English picture books. So they seem to accept my collection. But I want the books to be used, so I should show the feature of the books. For exemplar, color series, alphabet series and so on.  or, a few sentences, long sentences, and so on. It takes a few months. 

This is a kind of my discarding, but it is fun.

lunch diary 1123

 lunch diary 1123

A new week has started.

And a new stage will start from tomorrow.

It is sunny, today. We might go outside. Where?

We might go for “a special handmade broom”

 Why broom?

I am particular about handmade brooms. Of course I use a vacuum, I mainly use a broom every morning to clean the rooms. Since I came here I use “Kanuma broom”. The current broom is getting old and deteriorated. So we might drive to Kanuma , where it is 40 minute drive. 

Good morning 1122

 Today, it is November 22nd. It is “Good Couple Day” in Japan. In Japanese “ good couple” sounds similar to 11/22. One sounds “i”,two sounds “fu”. So it can be read “i-i fuu-fu”. It means a good  married couple. I don’t know when it appears. Anyway these years every year stories about good couple day appear in the news.

For two of us, it is a usual day. In the morning each of us does exercise (tennis, gym) . In the afternoon we go to a clinic and I walk. In the evening we spend easily as usual. Yuki says “I create own my music on PC” (while taking a nap). I say “I will practice the piano or put together our end of life planing on our note”.

Did I tell you recently I got a private certification of  end of life plan adviser.

Good morning 1121

 

Today it is our  Costco day, it means I take CBT at a clinic. I was asked to get a bag of onions, and Yuki was also asked to get bulgogi bake. On the way home from Costco, we should drop two houses. It will be fun.

What we can do today, we do and enjoy!

Additionally, last night our elder daughter Adriane’s at Narita airport.  Both travels to Senegal and Thailand were sponsored trips. She didn’t use her money and she didn’t earn money. 

In December she will join an exhibition .

Good morning 1120

 

From next Tuesday Yuki is going to be hospitalized. His new stage will start taking a different immunotherapy. We really realized that lung cancer has poor prognosis.  As I told you he has no symptoms on the surface. Some people might choose no treatment. Yuki takes treatment covered by our health insurance. 

Yesterday on the way home from the hospital we went to a mall and he bought a new cap.

Today we spend as usual. He goes playing tennis, I should go to the gym (before going to the gym I should return boos to the library.)

Good morning 1119

 

Tuesday has come. In one and a half hour later, we leave. 

I know it can’t be helped. We decided he takes all treatments covered by his health insurance.

We hope he won’t suffer side effects. 

lunch diary 1116

 

lunch diary 1116

We could go seeing colorful leaves last week.

It was fun!!!

Today we leave home in 40 minutes. We go to Yuki city to buy our favorite soy sauce. 

There is a soy sauce factory.  Only in the morning they sell their soy sauce at the factory. 

Tomorrow we are going to see the doctor. Then his treatment will be decided. 

For a while it might be difficult to drive far. 

Good morning 1115

 

It is Friday, the last weekday of this week. On the surface our life daily life hasn’t changed yet. 

In the morning laughter yoga meeting is held here. Today two women are going to come. 

This Sunday we have our mayoral election. Of course we will go to vote to “get” voter discount. And probably we will buy cake.

Good morning 1114

 

It is sunny. Yuki is about to leave home to go to the hospital. He gets a PET scan in the morning. It takes about three hours. 

Today’s y schedule is, going to the clinic, a bank, and a store to buy groceries. Oh, I  should go to the community center to hand my picture cards of this month. 

Did I write about the picture cards?

I join a volunteer activity supported by the community center. It is to draw picture cards every month. The cards are delivered to the elderlies who live mainly alone. 

Some volunteers draw their cards at the community center once a month, the others draw their cards at home and pass them to the staff. I draw my cards at home.

Good morning 1113

 

Yuki has already left home to play golf. He is fine. 

However—-

New tumors were found. They are small, as of now it is not sure whether they are bud or not.  Tomorrow he will take a pet. Next Tuesday we will see the doctor again. Additionally, his brain has no problem. His tumor marker is all right. 

Anyway he has no symptom. 

Radiation treatment or chemotherapy treatment will start again. 

Today in the morning a family visit my home library. In the evening a girl come s to take a piano lesson. 

We do what we can do now. 

P.S my friend seems to worry about replacing vaccination. At least around us no one including two of us take vaccination against coronavirus. The reason is probably, the cost, doubt, and not obligation. On the other hand some people take vaccination against flu, though we don’t take. 

Good morning 1112

 

In 40 minutes we will leave home. We see the doctor and take an explain about Yuki’s  MRI check he took last week.  Effie seeing the doctor he takes blood check. So after that we will have breakfast, though I don’t need to skip breakfast. (It is troublesome to prepare it for my self. ) we are having coffee now.

Lunch diary & haiku poem 1109

 

Now Daikon is growing in fields and our neighbor also grows Daikon in her field.

Daikon it self is still little, but now the leaves are very soft. So luckily we get the leaves, to tell the truth they come too often.

Anyway I constatnly cook these leaves. The easiest way is to cook them with Bulgogi beef yakiniku of COSTOCO.

I hope you can see this youtube "lucnh dairy & haiku poem 1109"

Good morning 1108

 

It is sunny. It is the last weekday of this week. 

Today’s our plan is that: in the morning Yuki goes playing tennis, I go to the gym. After lunch at home, we go to the library and  Yukik’s clinic. While Yuki is  in the clinic I will walk around there as my walking exercise. 

Next we are going to see the doctor who will tell us the result of Yuki’s CT and MRI. 

We will spend a calm weekend without special plans. 

Good morning 1107

 

The preparation for our community center autumn festival was finished. From today to his Sunday the festival is held for these weekdays only group exhibitions are held. The members of our Haiku club display our haiku. This Sunday lots of performances farm stores and food stalls are going to do and open.  We are worried about the weather. Because mainly they are outside.

Our elder daughter yesterday was taken to hospital. She got a shot and got some medicine. She doesn’t have any bad illness. 

Well two of us are surprised that Mr. Trump won by an overwhelming victory. 

Good morning 1106

 

It is cloudy. A few minutes ago it was rainy. 

Today I go to the community center to join to prepare for the community autumn festival. It is the biggest work for me in this week.

Good morning 1105

 

I feel under the weather, maybe my nervous system is in disorder.

It is sunny, today, so probably I am all right. 

Suddenly it is cold every morning and night. This temperature difference is one reason. Another reason is that my elder daughter is in Chiang Mai n Thailand. Since next day she arrived there she has a fever. She says she doesn’t feel have a cold, probably it comes from hard schedule. 

She was going to stay for two or three days in Paris because the air plane situation. Any fortunately she is in Chiang Main and with some Japanese.

In the morning we are going to the clinic where Yuki takes immunotherapy. Basically he goes there by himself, sometimes will go there. And in the afternoon I will go to the gym.

lunch diary 1102

I hope you can see this youtube "lunch diary 1102".

It is Monday, but it is a holiday. We have no plan. Probably we go to the library.

Yesterday Yuki’s band performed at a big city stage. It was a nice day, so there were lots of audience.

Of course the concert was free because it was hold by our city. 

In the evening, a friend visited us. Three of us were talking.

Good morning 1101

 

November has come. We shared the rest of yesterday’s cake for our breakfast. 

Our elder daughter T could could on a plane which is not different from the first one. She is leaving for Bangkok via Helsinki. At Helsinki airport there were Japanese signs. She was really relieved.

She is in her 30’s, and shingle. Thankfully? when she is worried or feels anxious she calls us. It remains us of being a family.