I am a native Japanese speaker who used to teach Japanese in a university somewhere on this planet. Currently I don't work but stayed in my house in Northern part of JAPAN. I hope that you could enjoy reading my posts and know what life in Japan is like.
I usually write a blog post after supper. Today I worked a lot for the trellis for apple tree. It has been almost completed. And I received the result of chest x-ray test by regular mail from the city hall. I got the test on November 17th. And today is December 29th. It takes many days when it comes to works by public offices. Fortunately, the result was “no-problem”. If it said a further examination was needed, my daily life would be changed completely with anxiety. Since many relatives on my father side died of cancer, I think it is a kind like ticking bomb.
And now I am writing a blog post. I have already eaten a small package of snack. I decide not eating two packages; one at a night.
I walked to a DIY shop in the morning. I bought 20 litter of Soil there. Recently one of neighbors gave me eight seedlings of strawberry. Of course I thanked him, but I know that strawberry can hardly grow in my garden, because soil is too bad. I had tried several times growing strawberry in the past. Strawberry couldn’t grow well in my garden, nor could I harvest the fruit well. So, I didn’t have any plan to plant strawberry in my garden in this autumn. However, having been given seedlings, I have already made the place to plant them. When I plant a seedling, I will make a gap between the soil of a seedling and soil of my garden. And I am going to fill the gap with soil that I bought in DIY shop today.
A Local Train on Shin’etsu Line
Probably there’s no Snow on Mt. Kitamata yet
DIY shop is selling a lot of Flower Seedlings
The Big Tree has been there since I was a kid in a half century ago
I took my mother to a small local clinic in the afternoon. She had a health check ten days ago. So today is a day to receive the result of the check and a flu shot. When the doctor told her the result, I was also there because she would forget anything the doctor told her. The doctor told her to take a more detailed inspection in the big hospital. The doctor wrote a referral letter and gave it to us. I have to take her to the big hospital next week.
I am just a layman about medicine. And no one can make a judgement about her symptoms exactly at this point. Let her take a test first. But I feel a little wondering. I quit my job in foreign country, and came back here in July. If my mother’s condition is not good and someone needs to take a care of her, does it mean I retired and came back home in a good timing?
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