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obachan s scribbles obachan s scribbles wednesday september 29 2010 mom is moving to another hospital things are getting hectic around me since that big day it s not so much of the workload in the office but rather the difficulty in managing the combination of the daytime work and the chores i need to do at home last week was another big challenge in some traditional areas in rural japan people offer special meal to their ancestors during higan period which is about a week around spring or autumnal equinox day my parents have kept that custom so last week i needed to prepare that special meal every morning in addition to the dishes for my dad that ritual meal has to be strictly vegetarian you are not even supposed to use animal broth to simmeri vegetables but luckily the shiitake mushroom gives some good flavor so taste is not the issue the issue is having to prepare extra meal when i have to hang laundry before going to work i managed it for a couple of days with no problem but from the 4th day on i felt so much burden on my shoulders then i heard that mom is going to move to another hospital this coming friday my aunt and i are going to help her move to a hospital in the neighbor city hope it doesn t make her unhappy posted by obachan 9 29 2010 12 29 00 pm link 3 comments wednesday september 22 2010 a week after we did it as i wrote on my foodblog we got an endorsement from a domestic geopark committee about a week ago oh it was a big day tv crews from all the local broadcasting companies we only have four people from several newspapers when our chief answered the phone from the committee we couldn t tell for a while if it was a good news or a bad news from his facial expression then he put the phone down and told us the good news we let off firecrackers and shook hands with each other d but we all knew that it was just the beginning beginning of another long agony or to put in a more positive way another challenge big challenge i m just happy that i m not facing this challenge alone posted by obachan 9 22 2010 12 46 00 pm link 3 comments saturday august 28 2010 this is what s going on 2 so that is my situation in august 2010 those who missed the beginning of the story please read the previous post first but mom s operation and my work were not all the challenges i have to face here s my dad who shouldn t be and cannot be forgotten let me tell you something he suffered from hypochondriasis from his late 30s to early 60s by the time he was 45 years old his name was well known at all the hospitals in the eastern part of the prefecture well we only have a handful of hospitals there anyway because he always insisted that there was something wrong with him and the doctors had to refer him back and forth among their hospitals finally he did get sick and had an operation and after recovering from it his health complaints have subsided well at least it looked that way until this summer but soon after mom started seeing the doctor dad started complaining about his health he says that his legs are mildly paralyzed and he has trouble walking a couple of weeks before mom got her worst diagnosis dad started his pilgrimage to hospitals with the doctor always saying well there seems to be nothing wrong then mom s diagnosis seems to have pushed him into full blown hypochondriasis to be cont d posted by obachan 8 28 2010 03 01 00 pm link 4 comments thursday august 26 2010 this is what s going on finally the worst part is over well maybe i shouldn t say that because it was not really the worst i did enjoy some of the new experiences after all and also things can get worse from now on anyway where should i start mom s operation maybe as i posted on my foodblog mom had been complaining about her foot problem for years and she finally went to see the doctor several months ago after visiting 2 different hospitals without getting a clear diagnosis at the 3rd hospital university hospital the doctor found two masses that looked like tumor after they examined one of them she was told that they were benign but the doctor checked out the other one just to make sure and it was found malignant also in her mri i guess there was a spot in her lung that could have been another tumor metastasized from the one in her foot luckily pet scan found out that the one in her lung was not malignant however to minimize the risk of metastasis she agreed to have her left foot cut off that was the end of july she was obviously shocked and i felt devastated of course i felt terrible for her but i have to admit that i was more worried about how it would affect me my work especially as i had written before since may 2010 i have been working for a promotion committee that is trying to make our hometown a geopark the place was approved as a domestic geopark a few years ago but the attempt to join the global network of geoparks has not been successful and this year we are going to give it our best shot since the beginning of this year the committee has been working harder than ever attending meetings after meetings improving tourism related facilities and running loads of events to promote our geopark and educate the public and this august was full of important events including an on site evaluation by japanese domestic geopark committee for the endorsement to apply for a membership of the global network it has been the dream of many local people here so it is like we can t fail this time because we already failed twice before to be cont d posted by obachan 8 26 2010 11 45 00 am link 8 comments monday march 15 2010 jobless days recently i often go to the cape and practice tour guiding i m a volunteer tour guide of the local geopark see i m doing my best to stay active in my jobless days honestly it is nice to be close to the nature when you are a little tired of people and their lip services the rocks are silent and they show us a totally different kind of time span which often heals me a lot if you ever come to the eastern part of kochi prefecture in the shikoku island japan let me know i ll be your tour guide and tell you all about the nature in this laid back countryside why don t you come to be my guinea pig enjoy the stories that rocks and plants on the coast tell you posted by obachan 3 15 2010 08 53 00 pm link 11 comments this blog is about an obachan s way of life that you may or may not find interesting the background designs will change semi periodically to show the seasonal changes in japan about me name obachan location muroto kochi japan obachan means a middle aged woman or aunty in japanese having moved back to my hometown in april 2009 i live in one of the desperately underpopulated areas in japan now let me share my life in a real countryside with aging parents living in the same house and here in muroto the place where i chose to live you can hear the heartbeat of the earth view my complete profile www flick r com this is a flickr badge showing public photos from obachank tagged with faves make your own badge here my pinoko doesn t speak story of me and my dermoid cyst obachanとデルモイドの話 my other blogs still clumsy with chopsticks foodblog obachan s kitchen balcony garden foodblog watercolors by obachan my watercolor paintings contact email me archive january 2004 august 2004 september 2004 october 2004 november 2004 december 2004 january 2005 february 2005 march 2005 april 2005 may 2005 june 2005 july 2005 august 2005 september 2005 october 2005 november 2005 december 2005 january 2006 february 2006 march 2006 april 2006 may 2006 june 2006 july 2006 august 2006 september 2006 october 2006 november 2006 december 2006 january 2007 february 2007 march 2007 april 2007 may 2007 june 2007 july 2007 august 2007 september 2007 october 2007 november 2007 december 2007 january 2008 february 2008 may 2008 june 2008 august 2008 september 2008 october 2008 november 2008 december 2008 february 2009 march 2009 april 2009 june 2009 july 2009 august 2009 september 2009 october 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