(Mother in Toyooka)

I went to visit a patient in Toyooka last Sunday.
Though I was wondering whether the patient felt satisfied or not because of visiting only once a month, three years have already passed since I started.
I have thanked a lot for Ms. Nakawa who rents me a house as a clinic pleasantly.
She has welcomed a lot of patients from the morning to the night with a smile of the sun as mother. She has looked very fine but the chronic leukemia and she’s been running around the city of Toyooka for the people every day. I have been taught by Ms. Nakawa who is mother of Toyooka. She has the spirit of thorough sincerity. Moreover, I occasionally feel that I have a fate to go to learn the things from her.

(Importance to know)

I went to the patient living in Toyooka too on the way home from visiting.
That lady living by herself became from Hepatitis C to cirrhosis and she is liver carcinoma now. She has often been into the hospital and out.
The window lighting of the apartment was seen in the very quiet and very dark place, which seem no neighbors.
As soon as I entered the apartment, she was very glad to see me with her tears though she said she had better die.
To know the patient where and how to live, and the environment and the relationship surrounded the patient, are very important to treat.
I try to visit the serious patients once a month as much as possible though I cannot take the time.
This patient has embarrassed nurses in the hospital but she looks very bravery because living alone in such like a place.
The more I know the patient, the more I become gentle.
Although I don’ think I can see everything of others of course, the mind that tries to know should be needed for the medical treatment person not to become arrogance.

(The distance between medical treatment person and patient)

A popular hospital was introduced on TV the other day. A lot of trainees come to gather in this hospital because they can learn the advanced medical technology with the pioneer of the community health.
The doctor working there said, “To examine the patient means that not for internal organs. We have to think how the patient live and the cause by seeing the whole life of the patient. I was very impressed by him. Western medicine comes to speak the word of the Oriental medicine. Moreover, the trainees have to work on the field and they get to know how a lot of patients of the farmers live actually. One trainee talked about a wonderful abundance. “The distance between the doctors and patients are very close differing from the university hospital.” “I would like to keep the same aspect as the local in going to visit based on the hospital.”

(Warmhearted-mind to others)

Mr. Fujimoto who is the principal of Hiroshima City University said that the key word opening the future is not the sympathy but warmhearted-mind to others and listening to others carefully. I’m consented sincerely by his words.
It isn’t easy to face one by one when we become busy. This might be a reality of the current medical treatment.
However, the person has delicate receptivity which is pleased or sorry with only one word. As the body and mind are connected, the weight is much large.
I would like keep myself who can listen to others as much as possible.
Visiting the patients which I try to listen to others carefully would be needed and more important in the future.

(I amaze housewife!)

The amount of the information or rumors about the hospitals among housewives has surprised me recently.
When I had a chat with some housewives, I found how much they have exchanged the information or reputations about the OOO clinic in details. There are so various topics, for instance, the internal medicine dept., the orthopedics dept., the dentist, dermatology, gynecology, bone-setting clinic, names of nurses and so on.
Naturally, though everything cannot be trusted because there are their own subjectivities, the amount of information or reputation is splendid.
Moreover, there is very clear that each person want a doctor to do.
The person asked the doctor at the lecture meeting before, “Please teach me how to distinguish a good doctor and a bad one.”
The doctor who was a professor of the university answered, “A doctor who doesn’t give the medicine as much as possible and one more thing, who has a good reputation, is a good doctor.” I sent the applause to him in the mind because of his simple answer.

(Where, when, by whom, is the inspection undergone?)

There are various comments as below: “I don’t know when to be inspected because I’m fine so far.” “Though I had an inspection once a month, the advanced-stage cancer was found two years later.” “As I smoke the cigarette, I went to the medical examination for the lung cancer. However, I was actually a pancreas cancer.”　　“Only I was inspected as many as five times once a week, my appeal was not accepted at all.”
As my mother had pains in her chest, she was tested in 5 or 6 hospitals. But no abnormality was observed in any of the tests. One hospital even referred her to a department of psychosomatic medicine because nothing was detected in the test.
The local GP discovered the cause which was the advanced-stage pancreatic cancer already.
I felt that it is very important when, where and by whom to be inspected.
It is an age when one every three people dies of cancer now.
Nobody can be asserted to become a cancer nowadays.

(Don’t overlook the yellow light.)

If I am asked the question what kind of person should be tested once a year, my general answers are following below.
1. Person who accumulates stress for a long time
2. Person whose lifestyle is irregular (sleep and meal)
3. Person whose symptom is different from everyday
4. Person who is over 50 years old
5. Person whose parents, brothers and sisters are cancer

However, I recommend going to the hospital to the patients who are very nervous and want to be tested. If there are nothing change at patient’s vital points of the pulse, the tongue , and the body even after the acupuncture and according to the patient’s appeals, I recommend going to the hospital positively too.
There are many patients who are stiff neck, lumbago, paralysis of one side of the body, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and cancer coming to our clinic.
Simple stiff neck and lumbago sometimes hide the serious illness.
There was a person who came to our clinic because of lumbago. As I was anxious about the symptom and the opinion in the Oriental medicine, I recommended going to the hospital. Later the advanced-stage cancer was found.

Actually when you improve your daily-lifestyle and relieve stress with sports or anything, if there are nothing changes before and after, you should notice it is a yellow light.
If you rely on medicines in any cases, you will not be able to know which the yellow light is.

(Warm-hearted medical treatment)
In Oriental medicine, we listen to the patient whose life-style and personality actually touch the patient. We try to find the unbalance that neither the spirit nor the body is separated.
In Western medicine, the sickness is found by the various inspections.
There are important things which are at least needed both Western and Oriental medicines though I think both are necessary in the current medical treatment.
To touch the diseased part of the patient
To be indulgent to the patient
To give the word with the warm-hearted
These seem to be natural but a lot of opposite in the reality.
I feel strongly that a technology and a theory are based on these.

When friend’s mother was carried into the hospital by the ambulance this year, the doctor at that time said to us that are out in a hurry while watching the PC. I’ve never forgot his voice and appearance.

The one of the main task as a doctor is to make the patient demonstrate the full of ability of mind and body to repulse the sickness. This is said by Dr. Norman Cousins, who used to be a professor in Medicine Dept. and also as a journalist in the U.S.

(People are good doctors.)

I have met a friend who lived in the U.S. for years the other day.
She has been doing the volunteer work to meet a lot of people like a consultation though she is not working.
I asked her, “Are there also a lot of people who are cancer?” She answered, “Yes, there are.”
According to the story heard from the patients who are cancer, they holds a big stress. A grudge is said the most of stress. The patients have lots of grudge between personal.
I understand it easily. The risk of becoming sick will rise if we keep worrying about one thing over many years.
The emotional trouble that cannot be solved by the effort might become a big stress.
Thus, nobody might felt that it is the difficult to keep the interpersonal relationship.
There are serious problems in the relationship between a wife and husband, people in the company, among neighbors, and a child and parents recently.
Anyhow, if there is a person whom you can’t accept for many years, it would be a root of the stress.

(Others’ fault？)

However, if I think well why we feel unhappy, is it others’ fault after all? There must be various opinions, but problems here most are the condition of our feeling which we blame the others.
After all, an intense vital status of attack to others ruins my health condition.
The life of anger belongs to the organ of the liver in the Oriental medicine.
The liver is said to be an originally energetic organ and very important. If you cannot be unrestricted, the stagnation of the blood and “qi” called “Kanustukitai” will be made.
If “Kanutsukitai” is prolonged, the mass will be formed.
The mass itself is thought to be the foundation of cancer.
After all, the state of the life which blames others would cause the root of the stress.
However, it is not easy indeed. Others sometimes might have their faults, and there is an environment which you cannot slip out no matter how you do.

(To get rid of stress)

Then, how can we release our minds from such a stress?
Though everyone understands we should change our way of thinking or escape from the problems easily, it is a hard working.
Though there might be another technique to get rid of stress, you have to let something blocked go through inside yourself in the Oriental medicine, it is nothing to do with others.
To let something go through means nothing but vomit.
There was a person who was a binge eating, and he/she ate a lot, and he/she throw up everything by putting a finger into the throat. There is a deep reason. The thing not filled is filled with food, and vomiting makes a person feel refresh. This is most related to feelings.
Therefore, the stomach might be burdened but it is useless for a binge eating person to forbid eating if there is no way to solve the problem.

Anyhow, to vomit is important. There is a key person who can listen to what you want to talk, not to give the advice.
There might not be a person such like this, if so, I would like you to move your body to spread out your stress. Or it is good to make “stress cancellation note” to write your feelings.
I think just after you wrote your stress on your note, you had better to throw away it.

Opposite meaning of the stress is loosening.
Loosening means feelings that a sincere laugh, heart to think the person to be important, glad heart, warm heart, satisfactory are everyone has originally.
I can see the thanks in the basis.

(The mind and the body is one.)

I always undertake treatment by thinking about the balance of the tension and loosening as a person who is involved the Oriental medicine which teaches the mind and body is one.
Even if there is no specific advice, I can let the stagnation go through with the acupuncture therapy.
Acupuncture should be needed in the medical treatment really in the future.
It will be useless to solve the symptom suppressed only with medicines. And this is obvious for the people who have the mind understand most in the 21st century any longer.

(Live indeed)

My best friend’s mother has been fighting against the cancer now.
The cancer has extended from the large intestine to the whole body such as the liver, lungs, and kidney.
She would be hospitalized though she fought hard with the family at home several days ago.
It is the battle which we can’t express the only one phrase which means very hard.
I felt an ultimate energy of the zest for living from friend’s mother.
I have been taught living indeed by her.

(Peace sign)

When I watched mother’s face at home just before hospitalization, she had a deep breath sometimes and there was corrugate to the middle of the forehead.
When she noticed my watching, she opened her eyes and smiled at me.
There were some excrements after several days, and my friend and I were pleased a lot of excrements.
She showed us her peace sign when we said to her “Mother! It went out a lot.”
All small one by one, excrements, holding a glass, drinking water, moving the feet are
peace signs of the big victory.

(My friend)

When I was a baby, I had no memory, but mother raised me up with enough love.
I began to cry even if I had no memory of mother.
I was relieved in mother’s earth even if I wan grown up. Mother who seem not to die through all eternity is the steady earth.
There is no happiness or honorable more than we can help the mother through my friend.
Thank you for giving such happiness and a chance which I took care of mother.
Thank you for mother.

(Attack cancer?)

The patient talked with tears about her relative who was the cancer and had been informed the remainder of her life sentence from the doctor the other day.
Cancer was found from the kidney, and metastasizes to both lungs six months later, and shoulder, too.
She took the big operation three times, and continued the anti-cancer drug treatment and morphine, and the pane was treated. It also makes a mistake in the amount of the medicine, ten double are administered, and her whole body became stiffen. In addition, the pleural effusion was pulled out voluminously, as soon as having the radiation therapy, her physical strength fell rapidly. Her weigh decreased 10kg, had no appetite, became a walking difficulty and she returned to home with the remainder of her life sentence. It is a very aggressive unbelievable treatment.
The patient was suffered from these treatment and cancer, and the family sobs.
Is such a reality repeated like this every day now?

(Mother’s face I cannot forget)

I’ve never forgot my deceased mother for a moment since I started this work.
A person who found mother’s pancreas cancer was a general doctor in the neighbor.
The doctor asked me, “Do you mind if I notify the cancer to your mother? I said, “No, I don’t.” Because she spent the various hard time many times, so I thought she could accept her sickness.
The doctor said, “Shall we think more carefully. This is only one life. The reason why she was in the hospital was to inspect it in detail today.”
When I opened the door after doctor’s explanation, I saw mother’s anxious face I’ve never seen before.
I sincerely thanked for the doctor momentarily.

(The worst)

Mother went to the hospital where was introduced with the film of the cancer three days later.
The doctor whom we met first was called the best surgeon in the hospital.
The doctor cried out, “What a big cancer it is!”, in front of mother who was sitting on the wheelchair with her head down.
I trampled his foot down instinctively, and whispered to his ear, “She doesn’t know it.”
I got angry his saying, he seemed to be the worst of luck of delicacy and embarrassed nurses in the hospital.
Mother’s doctor was not that one, but a young and nice doctor. Useless treatment was hardly done, but he requested we did the acupuncture on mother and accepted our opinion.
When I notified the cancer to mother, I don’t know how many times I talked and discussed even in letters with the busy doctor. Both notifying the cancer and treatment of Western medicine were discussed carefully.

(Light in the dark)

Doctors have their own opinions about notifying the cancer to patients. To sentence of the cancer and to determine to accept the cancer can help the treatment for the patient.
However, the doctor can send the patient to the heaven or the hell even if the doctors don’t have the surgical knife is not the exaggeration. Especially the patient is a serious illness.

The woman who had been confined in toles and pebbles due to the earthquake of Sichuan the other day has been rescued after 170 hours.
Her fiancé discovered her and kept telling her let’s marry and was the Chinese type of the wedding good?

The master, Renfu Fujimoto, said, “To give one light in the dark to the patient is much more important than to light them.”
Human being has an unexpected vitality even if the time of death approaches.
It should be the doctor that can believe the human vitality indeed.
I feel that when we believe to respect the life heavier than the earth, we can give one light, one hope, to the patient.