Weather: Cloudy in the morning then rainy in the afternoon Lunch: Albert (pub) Dinner: Pub near the station (I forgot the name) Stayed at Luna and Simone Hotel, Westminster We took a bus to the Westminster Abby, and spent quite a bit of ti…

Weather: Rainy Lunch: The real food company (sandwich stand) on Regent St. Dinner: a cafe in theater district (Stockpot West Ltd.) Stayed at Luna and Simone Hotel In order to get our bearings in London, we took an “original bus tour”, whic…

Weather: Cloudy with occasional sunshine Lunch: Fish and chips at Edinburgh Airport Dinner: Marquis of Westminster, a pub near Victoria station Stayed at Luna and Simone Hotel, Westminster Because our plane left shortly after 1:00, we had …

Weather: Rainy Lunch: Castle Cafe Dinner: Advocate (pub in Royal Mile) Stayed at Ard-Na-Said B&B, Edinburgh, Scotland It was a very rainy day, but we spent most of our time at Edinburgh castle. Stories of Mary Stewart, Henry VII, VIII, and…

Weather: cloudy No lunch Coffee at Queen Anne Caf? in Scottish National Portrait Gallery Dinner: Henderson’s Stayed at Ard-Na-Said B&B, Edinburgh, Scotland In the morning we left St. Andrews to Edinburgh with our son by bus. Even though I …

Weather: cloudy with some sun shine Lunch: Villa Italia Pub Dinner: Pizza Express Stayed at Annandale B&B, St Andrews, Scotland I loved the breakfast at Annandale B&B, particularly the Scottish smoked salmon, even though I could eat only a…

Weather: rainy Lunch: Hawie’s Dinner: Oak room Stayed at Annandale B&B, St Andrews, Scotland Mark and I left for Scotland at about 7:30PM on 2/21 and arrived at Heathrow in the morning. We made a connecting flight to Edinburgh, and then to…

（日本語は明日いれます）After all, I could not leave home last Sunday to spend the night at the hotel in Boston. Probably because of my posture while writing pages of translation on the computer throughout the week, compounded by fatigue, …

（日本語は後からいれます）It has been a very busy, but productive week. On Sunday, Mark came back from Japan safely with souvenirs; I asked him to buy brushes, pens, and water color paints, in addition to the regular food items from Japan.…

Old habits are difficult to kick. I received a phone call last Friday from one of my clients, asking about availability for a weeklong job on the west coast. Instead of saying, “sorry I cannot do it,” I asked her to give me a weekend to mu…

(写真はこの寒空に我が家の柊を食べにくるコマドリたち。我が家の猫たちは一日中眺めています。） In a way my biggest problem is my round face and olive colored skin. Everyone who saw me recently exclaimed, “Oh, you look so healthy. Did you gain…

（日本語は後に続きます）This week I worked one and a half days, and felt that this may be the appropriate amount of work for a while. I have been trying to find the right routine, find the best time to get up, to go to bed, and so forth, b…

A full 10days have passed since the intimate party with my friends, with which I opened the next chapter of my life, and many “new things” have happened since then. I started taking watercolor lessons from an artist last Friday, and I work…

I am working every other day this week, and have no energy left for anything else. I will write a new entry during the weekend.

Just before starting chemotherapy and radiation treatments in June (June 25 entry,) I invited four couples to come to my house, who are our very important friends. Rachel Naomi Remen, the author of “Kitchen Table Wisdom,” wrote about the r…

（日本語は後に続きます）For the past two weeks I have been trying to decide whether I still have a stricture even after the dilation. I am not throwing up like before, but I still have a slight discomfort and spit out the remnants of food …

My Santa Claus came in the morning. My neighbor, Manik, an Indian woman, came over in her red jacket with a bag of Christmas cookies. I visited her a few days ago with a few stems of flowers as an offering for her gods, along with a can of…

(日本語は後に続きます）The only thing on my calendar was to go to the Christmas Eve church service at 5:30 p.m. Since the afternoon was bright and warm, I took a walk before going to the service, and ate a whole Klondike bar (!) to repleni…

Klondike bar, Haagen Dazs ice cream, Ghirardelli chocolate, Lindt truffles, and Ritz crackers are part of my daily essentials. These are the food items that provide a lot of calories, even if you only nibble. I was quite chubby when I was …

“Please contact me sooner next time. Your stricture was pretty bad. The opening (to the new esophagus) was only pin-hole size. It is dangerous to dilate a small opening like that. Get in touch if you feel any stricture in the future, even …

日本語は後に続きますIt all started with coughs. My cancer saga started with coughs, which had not stopped for three months. My complaining about the cough at the annual physical check-up at the beginning of April led from one thing to anot…

I drove for the first time in six months today. Am I too self-conscious or what? I drove like an old lady, 5 miles below the speed limit to the drug store. Another milestone toward normality and independence is accomplished！

I was having one of the best times of the year yesterday. It was a warm winter day in Maine. The sky was high and there was no wind. The moderately high waves were chiseling the masculine rock surface endlessly as they have done for millio…

（日本語は後に続きます）One of the biggest concerns I had when I had the esophagectomy at BWH was the Fox TV Program “Vanished,” which originally aired on Monday from 8:00 to 9:00 in September. Even on September 25th, the day before the su…

（日本語は後です）No matter how many times I go through it, I cannot get used to the needle, the coldness of the IV fluid, and the moment before being wheeled into the operating room. Rather, the more you experience the operation, the more…

12/04/06 （日本語は後に続きます） I went to the BWH today for the first check-up with the surgeon after the surgery; everything is normal! I will go back to the hospital on Wednesday and Thursday this week for an endoscopy examination and …

11/27（日本語は後に続きます） It is truly interesting that exactly two months after the surgery I started having a serious infection with J-tube. Suddenly the foul smelling pus started oozing out of the insertion site, soiling my clothes. …

11/21（日本語は後に続きます） By the time I can write a paragraph about my emotions and frustrations, I am almost through with that phase. Usually writing brings that process to the surface of my consciousness, and I am fine by the time I …

11/16（日本語は後に続きます） The weather in New England has been gray and dark, and it is affecting my mood a lot. I have had difficulty dealing with cold and dark weather every year, maybe because I was born in a subtropical climate in J…

11/8 （日本語は後に続きます）One of my important rehabilitation routines is to go to church every Sunday. Since the discharge from the hospital, I have never missed the service. Last Sunday, on 11/5, our church had a special music Sunday c…