Thursday, August 28, 2025

Good morning 0828

 


Tomorrow, we have to go to see the doctor. I am really anxious. Yuki seems to act as usual. Today it is cooler than yesterday. According to the wearer report it is around 33 degree Celsius. Heat stroke alert is not going to be issued. So he will go playing tennis in the morning.
His weight got back easily normal.
His problems are bad hoarse voice, aspiration, and coughing.
Yesterday he went to a Radon mist hot spring. He suddenly started coughing.  Th other customers seemed to be worried, he said “I’m asthmatic“.
He acts what he can to on the day.

On the other hand, while I am facing to my anxiety, I spend at home lazily. Do I go to the gym?probably no. 
Additionally the first three time free personal trading were finished. Next week I will go there once a week when Yuki goes to his clinic.


Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Good morning 0827

 

  by Yuki

Yesterday I took a personal training, and I went back home without shopping.
I cooked my lunch at home. 
Today it is the third time to take it. It is free the first three times. The training is mainly stretching. Additionally yesterday in the afternoon I also go to the gym to do one circuit  machine exercise(15 minutes). 
Usually we do two circuit machine exercise, then do 15 minute stretching  seeing the video.
Next week, I am going to see an orthopedic doctor. So I ask him to do exercise and yoga like before.
I know walking exercise is all right, but it is too hot for me to walk even in the evening. And I don’t like walking exercise.

Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Good morning 0826

 


Today, Yuki has a PET CT test. The according his plan he eats sushi at a Kaiten-sushi ( a conveyer belt sushi restaurant). He believes sushi is all right not to swallow accidentally.
Then he is going to participate in his land practice tonight. 

On the other hand I take personal exercise at a gym in the morning. What do I eat for lunch? Do I drop by a cafe? Probably l will buy a lunch box. 

On the surface our lives are the same as usual.

Monday, August 25, 2025

lunch diary 0823 and good morning 0825

 

by Mieko

 by Yuki

A new week has started. I decided to take a personal physical training five times. Mainly to strengthen my back bone. It takes 30 minutes. Yuki  drops me off in front of the gym on his way to the clinic. So probably I constantly taking the training.

My friend introduced this site . Thanks. These days I started som yoga poses , and exercises by myself. Finally  my orthopedic doctor allowed me to do such light exercises, including going to the gym.









Saturday, August 23, 2025

Good morning 0823

 

 by Yuki

Yesterday it was a long day. His pneumonia as a side-effect and aspiration pneumonia are getting better. The amount of steroid is decreasing,  but he can’t get a treatment yet.we go to the hospital next Friday again. 
Unfortunately without cancer treatment, his tumor is growing, and ways of the treatment are decreasing.
He also took his vocal cords test. His muscles seem to be difficult to tighten his vocal cords. It means aspiration is easily caused. He needs to be careful of his pose when he eats, and what he eats. Unfortunately noodles are difficult for hem to eat. 
The reason of his hoarse voice was not cleared. 
Next week, he gets Pet CT test.

Well, though it is a strange excuse, I am not good at English. So when I write his blog in English, I choose what I am able to write in English. Te most difficult thing is to write about our emotion.

I am able to write the situation calmly. 

If I used Chat GPT, I could write this blog more correctly and deeper. 


Today I am going to take personal training check. For the first time it is free. I might take personal training  for a several times to reduce the stiffness? of my hip joints though it is expensive.   .


Thursday, August 21, 2025

Good morning 0821

 


Today I am going to take CBT. Tomorrow we go seeing the doctor at the hospital. 
I am full of anxiety, so I am really happy o take CBT to relieve  my stress as much as possible. 
While I take CBT, Yuki is at Costco. 
I hope his symptoms like  cough, hoarse voice, and  aspiration will be improved. Such symptoms exhaust his physical strength and decrease his QOR (not eating noodle, and spicy food, and anyway talking).

Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Good morning 0820

 


Though it is past the middle August, it is still hot.
Today I will go to a personal gym and talk about my back and hip bones. 
The personal gym is connected with the gym I usually go. 

In the morning we go to a clinic to reduce Yuki’s side effects. On the way home we go the personal gym and of course have lunch outside.
And probably we will buy some delicatessen for our “supper”.

A high school student will come to take my piano lesson in the evening.
We have returned our usual days.

Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Good morning 0819

 


Last night suddenly my tooth filling came out. I should go to the dentist today. It might be a long day because I go there without an appointment. 
At our familiar Japanese pear orchard, they have started selling their pears.  The orchard is run by a couple who are the same generation as us. They decided to reduce the scale of their orchard.

On the other hand, our government said “we will change course toward more rice production.
 Everybody seems to appreciate this decision, but how many farmers  or farm companies are there who will be able to do it? 

Monday, August 18, 2025

Good morning 0818

 


A usual week has started, though kids are still in summer vacation. This Friday I am going to hand over my English picture books. I’ve already packed them in five cardboard boxes.  I will pack them more. I keep some books in my house. Most of them are really easy ones. There are two or three sentences in each page.  The others are my favorite ones. 

Organizing my house is my hobby, isn’t it.?

Sunday, August 17, 2025

Good morning 0817 & lunch diary 0816

 

 by Yuki
This photo is noodle, isn’t it. Last week he could eat noodle, though he choked a little. 
Now he chokes easily. So the doctor said ‘not to eat noodle’. Anyway in a week he has to go to the hospital..

He seemed to enjoy  the jam session. 
I also enjoyed  talking with my young friend.

It is drizzling now. He wants to go seeing his tennis mates. It depends on the weather.
Me? Do I read books which I borrowed from the library?

by Mieko



Saturday, August 16, 2025

Good morning 0816

 

by Yuki

For many people this weekend is the last two days of Obon vacation.
Yuki participate in a jam session in the afternoon.  My young friend comes here in the afternoon.

Yesterday we talked to Yuki’s main doctor. 
We thought his hoarse voice is a side effect caused by taking steroid. Unfortunately it was wrong. His disease is progressing.  In one week the amount of steroid is decreased step by step. Then next Friday we will talk to the donor about his next treatment plan.  The medicine for aspiration pneumonia was also prescribed. And unfortunately he shouldn’t eat noodle.  
He doesn’t like my saying “are you all right?” Because he seems to be tired of it.
On the other hand I like some wane saying “are you all right” to me.  Usually I am asked “is your husband all tight?”
But if someone  said “are  you all right?”, I would say “no problem”. 
It is really difficult to accept diseases.



Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Good morning 0813

 



by Yuki
Unfortunately I canceled the performance at KARAKU.
Probably it was the second time. The first one was I had to visit my mother inTokyo suddenly because of her illness.
So it was the first time for me to cancel ly because of my dizziness.
Instead of going to KARAKU I was being given IV at a clinic. Fortunately Yuki dropped and pick me up. If I were alone—- .???
I will stay lazily today. 
Tomorrow my daughters might come here. 
The day after tomorrow it is the day for Yuki go to the hospital. I and going to go with him and listen to the doctor. We hope he will resume chemotherapy, though he has still pneumonia, and very hoarse voice because of steroids side effects.



Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Good morning 0812

 

Yesterday I suddenly fell ill in the afternoon, though in the morning I felt dizzy. From the afternoon I was lying down the rest of the day.  What happened to me? It seemed a kind of heat stroke, though it was not so hot but very humid. 

My condition is uneven, and Yuki’s side effect also comes in waves. 

Well, anyway today, it is the day of KARAKU. I hope I will be able to go there. Yuki is going to participate in his band practice tonight. 


Monday, August 11, 2025

Good morning 0811 & lunch diary 0809

 

by Yuki

by Mieko
Many people go back their hometown during this Obon vacation or go on a trip. However we unfortunately it is not a good weather. In some area they are having heavy rain called “linear precipitation zone.” Last night on their way home they were caught by it, they couldn’t go forward. Some trains include ing bullet trains couldn’t run, the trains changed into the hotels for the passengers.

In this area, it is raining but not so heavily. Today we have to a nearby laundromat to dry our clothes.









Sunday, August 10, 2025

Good morning 0810

 

by Yuki
Yesterday a firework festival was held in our town. Luckily we could watch some fireworks from the window from Yuki’s room. He took some pictures and updated his YouTube with his music.

Thankfully a viewer gave me the answers to my questions about an English picture book. Yesterday I read it up. I also organized some books about Mother goose. I used to hold a workshop about Mother goose sometimes,  winky with songs. I thought if I had read up this book, the workshop would have been more fulfilling, and fun. I try to introduce this book on a zoom meeting.







Saturday, August 09, 2025

Good morning 0809

 

I have started  taking my kimono apart. Most of my kimonos were taken apart and made over into casual dresses by my friend. But I still keep some kimono, which are mainly formal kimono. 

But I decided to give them a makeover into dresses. 

Kimono of late my mother in-law were discarded mostly. Probably mine will follow the same path. My daughters can’t put on kimono by themselves. 

Additionally I am able to put on kimono, but if I need to put a formal one, I will go to a beauty saloon.



Friday, August 08, 2025

Good morning 0808

 

by Yuki

Many people will have long vacation from tomorrow. I hope the temperature won’t be  reach to 40 degree Celsius. 
I resumed easy yoga at home, it makes me comfortable, but I feel mu hip joint gets stuck. 

Yesterday I watched a Japanese  movie on Amazon prime. (We have registered only for an Amazon 
Rim member. ) I was looking forward to seeing it. I enjoyed watching a movie for the first time in a while.

I hope someone answers my questions about the picture book which  log I updated the day before yesterday.

Thursday, August 07, 2025

The topic is "brain"

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.

by Yuki

Wednesday, August 06, 2025

questions -- a book from "Mary had a little jam and other silly rhymes

 I read this book little by little.


Q1

Mary, Mary, quite contrary
 what does your garden grow?
Spinich? Broccoli? Cauliflower?
 To which Mary ansserd, "No!"

What is the silly part?
Does the questioner ask her the least favorite vegetables?

Q2

Peter, Peter, sugar eater,
always wanted food much sweeter.
Adding sugar was a blonder.
Now he is a toothles wonder.

Why the boy Peter is a toothles wonder?
He ate sweets too much, so his all teeth were gone by cavity?
Or luckily all his baby teeth have gone naturally without cavity to chane into adult teeth?

by Yuki 


Tuesday, August 05, 2025

Good morning 0805

 

by Yuki

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.



Monday, August 04, 2025

Good morning 0804

 

by Yuki
A new week has started. It is the hospital day again. 
Little problems always happen, we should be composed and have guts.

On the surface, Yuki looks better. He participated in jazz session yesterday afternoon.
I drew up picture cards . I take them to our community center. The stuff send them to the elderly who lives alone.





Sunday, August 03, 2025

Good morning 0803 and lunch diary 0802

 

by Yuki
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.
Anyway I did house errands. It was a good thing.

 by Mieko






Saturday, August 02, 2025

Good morning 0802

 

by Yuki

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. 
I will do discarding 10 things.



Friday, August 01, 2025

Good morning 0801

 

by Yuki

August has started.

We leave in one hour for the hospital. I hope he won’t need to be hospitalized by pneumonia and resume the chemotherapy .

Anyway while he takes blood check and X ray, I am going to stay at Starbucks. It is my luxurious time.

It must become a long day, today. Where and when do we (or I) have lunch? 




Thursday, July 31, 2025

Good morning 0731

 

by Yuki

It is the last day of July, isn’t it? It was a long month. 

Though Yuki is coughing is getting better, tomorrow we have to go to the hospital.

Yesterday, he we went to a hot spring with full of radon gas where it takes about one hour by car.

He seemed to find another hobby? mission. This time didn’t go with him. Next time I  might go with him. I don’t like “hot” hot spring very much. 

I organized our family photo book in 2025. Sine I started annal photo book 11 years have passed. Why July?

Our grand daughter was born in July. To celebrate her birthday I started to make our family photo every year.  She grew up, so she doesn’t visit us so often. It might be the last photo album.

.





Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Good morning 0729

 

by Yuki
It was a long day yesterday. Fortunately he didn’t need to be hospitalized. Another medicine was prescribed. For a while he decided to stop playing tennis. But tonight he is going to participate in his band practice.
Today I go to an orthopedic clinic. I have still trouble of my hip joints, though they are getting better.

Yesterday we had lunch at a convenience store in the hospital when we were waiting. 
Today I would like to have something good outside. It is too hot for me to cook. Or I might buy something to eat at a supermarket on the way home from the clinic.







Monday, July 28, 2025

Good morning 0728

 

by Yuki
We decided to go to the hospital today, though we are going to go there this Friday. Yuki’s coughing is worse, and feels dull more. We are afraid of pneumonia. Last time he was hospitalized, he had pneumonia. 

These days I don’t write positive things on this blog. I lean on this blog to show the sign of my weakness.


Sunday, July 27, 2025

Good morning 0727 & lunch diary 0726

 

by Yuki

by Mieko

It is Sunday. Though both of us are feeling summer fatigue, we are getting better. Yesterday I organized and cleaned the fridge.  Now the washing machine is washing our bed covers and so on.
For these 10 days I didn’t cook much. .So unfortunately I wasted some ingredients.
When Yuki feels dull, I am easily upset. (On the other hand it is a usual thing for me to feel dull.)
I want to remain composed.







Saturday, July 26, 2025

Good morning 0726

 

by Yuki 

It is Saturday.  Since Yuki ran down, ten days have passed. To tell the truth there are ups and downs in his physical condition. For us it is the first experience. I know he is struggling with his condition very hard. But let me dare to say, I also feel lots of anxiety.

On the other hand he constantly updates his YouTube while composing original music. I am relieved he has a good hobby. 
 
Today Yuki’s friend comes with fresh organic eggs. Probably Yuki will eat the fresh raw egg with rice. 
It is a Japanese culture, isn’t it?




Friday, July 25, 2025

Good morning 0725

 

by Yuki
It is the last weekday of this week. Kid’s summer vacation has started.
Thankfully this week we have no fever. Yuki has a little cough. We don’t know it comes from his illness, or a side effect from summer cold. Anyway he seems not to need to go to the hospital.
 
This week he doesn’t go playing tennis. I think considering his situation it is  absolutely reasonable. Now this area heatstroke alert has been issued. Additionally the other members play tennis every day. 

He could go to a regular clinic to get a shot to reduce his side effects because of  no fever. He also goes there today.
On the way home we have bought our meals. I am giving up cooking this week including today. Though I always say the same phrase at the end of every month, I am scared to do our monthly household account book. Not only meal cost , it also usually medical cost.  I went to clinics more than usual and bought more Japanese’s herb medicine to reduce our summer fatigue.

Thankfully our gardener came and trimmed and cleaned the garden. He was working wearing a special cool jacket.

Additionally,  I canceled my laughter yoga meeting and volunteer reading at the library this month,  because I was really worried an out Yuki’s situation.





Monday, July 21, 2025

Good morning 0721& lunch diary 0719

 

by Yuki 

by Mieko

Today it is a holiday.  Unfortunally both of us have a slight fever. I have a sore throat. Both of us are really dull. It is a typical symptom of summer cold.
Both of us are in bad mood, so each of us stay lazily and quietly in each room.
 If he has still fever tomorrow, he has to go to a clinic, and me too.





Sunday, July 20, 2025

Good morning 0720

 


Unfortunately both of us have caught a summer cold. Yuki has still a little fever. Last night I had a fever, but now I have no fever, though I am really dull.
For me, it is a usual symptom. But Yuki he seldom catches a cold. He seems to be depressed. Anyway he stays in his room, and composes  his music, and sometimes he lies down. 
We should survive this summer cold and scorching summer.


Fortunately we had lot of food stock in the frizzer, and fresh vegetables are delivered. So we have no problem about food, though I cook “a little”. Fortunately he has enough appetite.



Saturday, July 19, 2025

Good morning 0719

 

by Yuki

A busy long week is finished. We spend lazily at home this weekend. 

Yuki’s new medicine seems to work, but unfortunately he got a fever on Thursday. Now he has a slight fever and is getting better. So the medicine was stopped for a while. 

The way to take this medicine is taking it three or four weekends every day and stopping two weeks. This is the first cycle. He can take this way ??? cycles. Anyway for two weeks he doesn’t take anticancer drug, though he takes the other medicine.

To tell the truth when he got a fever I got upset and panicked. Now we are all right.

Without noticing some food is past its expiration day. I have to organize foot stock shelf. It is a usual weekend to let go off 10 things.




Friday, July 18, 2025

Good morning 0718

 

by Yuki

The last mission of this week is going to the hospital. Since a new medicine started three weeks have passed.
We leave home in 10 minutes. 

Thursday, July 17, 2025

Good morning 0717

 

 by Yuki

Yesterday, after we finished doing errands downtown, we visited a public art museum.
They hold “moving Vincent Van Gogh: digital fine art exhibition”


Well, Today we have to go visiting a lawyer. 
Unfortunately we cannot make good progress with the inheritance procedure (or issue.)
Our decision which is to get a lawyer was correct. 


Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Good morning 0716

 



by Yuki
Unfortunately Yuki canceled playing golf because raining. 
I was going to do errands downtown by myself. Luckily I got a driver. 
Rain is not so hard. 

It is in the middle of this week. The half of this week, we spent a lot time heritage issue including talking with our lawyer, the later half of this week , we go to hospitals. 

Anyway we will enjoy lunch outside today!
 

Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Good morning 0715

 

by Yuki
Typhoon is coming to Japan, but it won’t hit straightly this area.  It is cloudy, and sometimes raining. Today’s Yuki’s tennis is canceled.

Yesterday we visit a dentist who is Yuki’s friend. Why?
I handed in this month mold.

How did I use this? I used this to explain English pronounce. It was one of my important gadgets. So I am really happy to find a person who wants to use it. 
Then, I put this information on my Facebook which is open to limited people. Since I closed my English class I haven’t updated my Facebook. My Facebook mates are mainly Japanese English teachers. 
As soon as I updated my face log with this picture, I got many comments from my Facebook friends. Some of them have the same mold. It was like a reunion of my English teacher mates. It was fun.







Monday, July 14, 2025

Good morning 0714 & lunch diary 0713

 

by Mieko

by Yuki




A new week has started.  At first I have to go an orthopedic doctor. I will leave in one hour. 

Sunday, July 13, 2025

Good morning 0713

 

 by Yuki
It is still cool this morning. According to the weather report it will not today. 
Can I survive? — it is an exaggerated expression.
I organized my moxibustion box. 
I don’t use moxusa, but this YouTube might be interesting to you.










Saturday, July 12, 2025

Good morning 0712

 

by Yuki
Yesterday, Yuki saw his doctor, and got another prescription. His medicine problem was solved. Next Friday we are going to see his doctor again. The we go to another clinic, where he get a shot constantly to reduce his side effects. 

We had lunch stake. 

Then he joined his friend’s birthday party jam session. I was sleeping in the afternoon. In Japan, it is said that if you lie down right after eating you will turn in to a cow. (Fortunately today I am not a cow.) unfortunately I am still tired. This afternoon I will receive acupuncture. It is my modest luxury.







Friday, July 11, 2025

Good morning 0711

 

by Yuki

Yesterday afternoon, we had a thunderstorm. The thunder was really loud. Then itwas a comfortable night, we could sleep without air conditioner. This morning it is also cool.

The issue , we think, is being settled, though it seems to take for a while to solve it perfectly. 

Another small problem occurred. Yuki seemed to take  medicine mistakenly more than a fixed amount of times. So a shortage of medicine occurred.  We have to go to the hospital in the morning.  Everyday something happens. What do we eat our lunch today “outside” ?





Thursday, July 10, 2025

Good morning 0710

 

 by Yuki
Yesterday, it was a good morning to talk with  lady who owns her small used book store.
She borrowed a book from my library. She will come again. I am really happy.
I served soda with my candied rhubarbs. She seemed very satisfied. So I shared some with her.





Today we go to see our lawyer. Unfortunately the inheritance issue isn’t solved yet. We hope it will be solved positively.





Wednesday, July 09, 2025

Good morning 0709

 


Yesterday I could perform at Karaku cafe. Thankfully regular costumers and other people came so the Karaku was full. 
Today in the morning a woman comes to my home library. She runs a small used book store. She doesn’t come to buy books, she is interested in my home library.





Tuesday, July 08, 2025

Good morning 0708

 

by Yuki

Yesterday afternoon I gave up! I seemed to get heat stroke. I canceled  a meeting on zoom. This morning I feel better, but stroll not fully recovered. The main symptom is dizziness.  I hope I will go to KARAKU today.

I could have light breakfast. In the morning I stay quietly in my room. 


Monday, July 07, 2025

Good morning 0707

by Mieko

by Yuki

It is still early morning. It is hot. It is the first time to turn on the air conditioner this time. We are going out to go to a clinic. I am thinking on the way home from the clinic, we will stop by at a supermarket and buy delicatessen for our lunch and dinner.
Did I write about our smoothie? These days I constantly make smoothie with one fourth of head of cabbage and one banana and have it with our dinner.

Well, since I stopped using progressive grasses, as the eye doctor said, my eyes have been less tired, though it is troublesome to change grasses often. 

 A new week has started. We have to make it through this hot summer.
 

Sunday, July 06, 2025

Good morning 0706

 

by Yuki
Yesterday I gave one box of my English picture book to a young lady. She is born in Malaysia  and grew up in Australia. She works here as an assistant English teacher at public schools. She said she would like to use Englishpicture books at her lesson, and to lend them to her students. I was really happy. I invited her to come to my home library. Probably, she will come during summer vacation. 


Saturday, July 05, 2025

Good morning 0705

 

by Yuki

The good thing is , Yuki can continues current chemotherapy. 
Yesterday after the hospital we went having Korean BBQ (yakiniku). He has more appetite than me.
The bad thing is the treatment or keeping ways of his cancer are getting fewer 

Today be for noon I am going to meet a mother to give some my English books. She is Asian, but not Japanese. 


Friday, July 04, 2025

Good morning 0704

 

by Yuki
Since he started taking new medicine one week has passed. Thankfully he hasn’t got bad side effects. In one hour we go to the hospital. Then we are going to an art museum.

It is Friday.  Tomorrow probably we talk with our lawyer. 

Anyway we “survive” this hot  weather. 

Additionally last night we had heavy . It caused flooding on the nearby road. According to the weather report, the wet season on this area will finish on next Monday.



Thursday, July 03, 2025

Good morning 0703

 

by Yuki


Today, we have no plan. If we go out in the morning probably we will have lunch outside. To save money we will stay home in the morning. 

This weekend a Chinese mother will come  to take some of my English books. Next week a friend visit my home library. I am really happy to welcome some guests.

Yesterday I bought two new glasses. I used bifocal grasses. It seems to be  burden for my eyes. I made grasses to see far,  and to see around me. (Progressive lenses). Of course I have reading glasses. Now I am wearing reading grasses to write this blog.

It is good for my eyes. 

The bad point is the bag I go out is full of gadgets: grasses, smart hone, sunscreen, arm and warm covers protecting myself from air condition, salt candy, etc.


P.S I used the word "bifocal grasses". What differences are there between bifocal grasses and progressive grasses. There is no line between upper and loweer, so my grasses are porgressive grasses???



Wednesday, July 02, 2025

Good morning 0702

 

  by Yuki

I have to call a dentist. Sorry I started today with complaining.
On the other hand today I get my new grasses. It is fun.
These days against this hot weather we have homemade cabbage and banana smoothie. I use a quarter of head cabbage and a banana for two of us. Of course not add sugar. It is good.

Tonight I am going to join a Zoom meeting. It is also fun.
Yuki has no plan today except going to a clinic. He might go practicing golf though I think it is too hot.





Tuesday, July 01, 2025

Good morning 0701

 

by Yuki
It is July. A half of year has passed. For two of us, the issues of this month are two things. One is a new chemotherapy treatment, the other is the inheritance issue.

The end of month I will do volunteer reading at the library because kids’ summer vacation will start.

Today, we go to the hospital. But just to see the doctor. In the afternoon Yuki is going to join jam session at a jazz cafe. I am going to the gym to do one circuit exercise. 

Well, this weekend, I organized a Japanese room. Finally the “tokonoma” appeared again, where was used as a storage place.







Monday, June 30, 2025

Good morning & lunch diary 0629

 

by Yuki 
by Mieko

A new week has started.  The first my mission is going to an orthopedic clinic. Then we go downtown to get some official documents for inheritance. Do we have lunch outside? Might be. Last week we had lunch outside every weekday.

At night I am going to review the account book of this month. I feel headache. But keeping our household account book is “kind of” my hobby.







Sunday, June 29, 2025

Good morning 0629

 

by Yuki

In West Japan, the rainy season finished. In this area it is still in the wet season. But it is really hot. 
This morning I go copying sutra at a near by temple. Did I go there last week? Yes I went to the temple last week. But it was not a day to copy sutra. It was my mistake. So I talked the chief priest and came home. 
Fortunately Yuki’s side effects are mild as of now. He is going to compose music in his room today. And he might clean and was his car. 

Saturday, June 28, 2025

Good morning 0628

 

 by Yuki

Sorry, today’s diary is negative.
The kind of Yuki’s chemotherapy treatment changed. Instead of  I.V, he started taking oral medicine of  anti cancer drug twice a day. Anyway today he is able to go playing tennis while taking some breaks.
It is hard for the patients and their family  to coexist with cancer.

Friday, June 27, 2025

Good morning 0627

 

 by Yuki

We leave home in one hour. Today he is going to take a sixth? round of chemotherapy. It depends on the result of CT last week he got. 



Thursday, June 26, 2025

Good morning 0626


by Yuki


We'll leave home in an hour. It is COSTCO day, it menas I take CBT(cognitions behaivor threapy). On the way home from Costco, we stop by at some friend's house to deliver some thing they asked us. 

It is fun!

One complaint is that; I tired of having the hotdog.  I don't mind to have Mac hamburger. A Mcdonard is in front of the Costoco. Additionally there is a Starbacks next to the Costco.



Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Good morning 0625

 

by Yuki
Today I am going to go to a  grass store to change my grasses for my PC .

Yesterday one boy dropped by at my home library. It is the second time for him to come here. His friend came to get him, and he started playing outside. Talking with him was fun.

In the evening I walked around my house. Coincidentally I met a friend. It was the first time for us to see her in several years. Both of us were walking. Of course we started chatting. Probably chatting time was longer than walking time. It was fun. 




Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Good morning 0624

 

by Yuki


Yesterday we visited three clothe’s shop. He could get two summer shirts. I didn’t buy anything new!
As soon as we got home, it rained cats and dogs. I was going to go doing one circuit exercise, a gave up. 
Instead of it, I do light exercise for my hip joints. 
It is drizzling, it is exactly a weather of the wet season.
I am making candied rhubarb. Today it is the third day, and final day. I take out the melted sugar fluid , boil it and pour it on the rhubarb twice a day.  









Monday, June 23, 2025

Good morning 0623

 



by Yuki
A new week has started. Yesterday we checked our summer clothes . Mine is all right, I could put away one dress. Yuki said “it is too small”. So he is going to discard four clothes in the afternoon. It means we are going to go out for looking four his new clothes: summer shirts.

Yesterday I talked with a friend on the phone. She is older than I, but she still manages her English school. 
She lives in the next prefecture, it is too far to visit her easily. 
It is all right. If she lived within one hour distance I would often visit her to complain. Well, if I could, she must be too busy to listen to me.

After having dinner I took a walk for 15 minutes. I was surprised that how many people were walking. Though it is the wet season, it is really humid and hot. 
According to the weather forecast, this week we have rain, though it is cloudy and humid today.



Sunday, June 22, 2025

Good morning 0622

 

by Yuki
It’s 7 AM. I’ll leave home in one and a half hours. Why? From this month sutra copying meeting begins at 9 o’clock.
Actually for me having low blood pressure it is a little bit difficult to do morning training. Though it is said the elderly are morning people, I am not.
Addition I am not a night person.

Yesterday a friend presented me a bunch of rhubarb. In the afternoon I am going to make candied rhubarb. It doesn’t use fire, though I have to disinfect a jar in hot boiling water.
Let’s enjoy Sunday!


Saturday, June 21, 2025

Good morning 0621

by Yuki



Yesterday  the laughter yoga meeting was fun. I am in my 60’s. Another one is in her 70’s. And the others are in their 80’s. At first we talk our complaints —— all of them “my …….s hurt!” All of them go to an orthopedic clinic as a usual thing. Well I know I myself am strange why I am included.

Then to rewrite negative things into positive things, we talk what was good, what made us happy, what we appreciated in this month.

Two each women  say “I could visit my friend.” Their friends live in the same city but it is far to go  on foot. Going there by bus is troublesome. They have to walk to the bus stop. They have to change the bus. The bus comes once an hour.  Going there by taxi is, they say, “Too expensive”. 
This time each of them found a person who took them by car. One is her friend’s friend’s husband. 
The other is her friend’s nephew.

Then we played cards, and did yoga breathing.






Friday, June 20, 2025

Good morning 0620

 

by Yuki

Yesterday Yuki could play golf. He was so exhausted that he went to bed earlier than usual. Though he doesn’t have much energy as he used to, he still enjoy sports. It is a good thing. 

I went to an eye clicking in the morning. It was really crowded. I was sitting for long hours. In the evening I did one circuit exercise at the gym, but my back hurt at night. I put a patch on my back. 
I don’t know which gave my back damage, sitting for long hours or just light 10 minute exercise (most of time I was stomping lightly on the walking board skipping half of machines ).

Today I hold a laughter yoga meeting. In the evening we go to a dental clinic. 

Thursday, June 19, 2025

Good morning 0619

 

by Yuki
Yuki has already left. Why? To play golf. Probably it is the first time for him to play golf  this year. He seems to go through his side effect tunnel. It was longer this time. 

“Thankfully” yesterday I was presented seasonal vegetables : summer bamboo and Japanese pepper berries. To tell the truth these days hot and humid days continue, so I didn’t want to cook. Actually I bought delicatessen for our dinner. 

But I couldn’t waste it. And I know it is very important to cook as fast as we possible when we dig or pick them. 

I cooked. 







Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Good morning 0618

 

by Yuki

We’ve already finished our breakfast. It was 40 minute earlier. Why?
Today Yuki gets a CT in the afternoon. He has to finish lunch two hours before it. It means our lunchtime before 11 a.m.  There are some cafes which serve “morning set. “For me”, it is fun. So we got earlier than usual and had early breakfast. 

Yesterday I did one circuit  exercise. It troll about 20 minutes. I skipped a half of machines, instead workout using them, I was walking in place. Additionally when I was at the gym, Yuki bought 2 summer pants as his lounge wear at home.

Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Good morning 0617

 

 by Yuki

Yesterday, it took longer getting physical therapy and seeing the doctors at the orthopedic clinic. After that we went to Yuki’s clinic as usual. I was tired. So I couldn’t go to the gym. The orthopedic doctor said “light exercise is all right”. Today I was going to do one circuit exercise in the afternoon. While I am doing, Yuki is going to “browse” his clothes at supermarket next to the gym. 

Now I wear a T-shirt. It is the first time to put on a T-shirt from early morning. Until yesterday I changed a long sleeve shirt into a T-shirt in the afternoon. Today it is already hot.  Is it the wet season?

Monday, June 16, 2025

Good morning 0616

 

A new week has started. 

My first mission of this week is going to an orthopedic clinic to get a physical therapy. Additionally in he morning Yuki has no schedule (usually on Mondays he has no tennis meeting.) he said “I will take you to the clinic. While you get it, I will be at Uniqlo clothes shop.” 

On the other hand if the doctor permit to one circuit exercise which doesn’t include ones for waist and back, I want to go to one circuit exercise in the afternoon while Yuki goes to the supermarket which has alcohol, and inexpensive clothes. (It means the clothes are cheaper thanUniqlo’s.)

Anyway today’s his condition is not so bad. I am relieved.