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Toast to Life 44 (Social Capital)
Daisuke Yamanoi, an emergency doctor at a large hospital, phone-called me on Saturday, 22nd. He had made calls many times until then over the year end, but I declined every time for other family engag
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Toast to Life 37 (Positive = looking forward, or looking for future)
I get trained by my children every day. On July 1st, my daughter, or high schooler, returned home at 9 pm, mistaking her train going opposite while falling asleep. I know she is quite diligent and ser
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Toast to Life 35 (Wish I were younger)
I started reading Prof. Kazuto Ataka's "Shin Nihon" (NewsPick Publishing Co., Ltd., 2020) (photo below).
Here are the reasons. I am often told by family members, "we talked about that right now. Why
Toast to Life 34 (Mr. Ryan Anthony)
Trumpet player Mr. Ryan Anthony, who presided over CancerBlows in the United States, died on June 23, last year. He had a blood cancer called Multiple Myeloma. I knew for the first time yesterday that
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Toast to Life 29 (Hard to keep writing blogs)
It's hard to start a blog. It's harder to keep it on. This blog has been in "black-out" for almost a month since the last one on March 29. The fact is astonishing even for the writer. Damn my tardines
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Toast to Life 28 (Treatment moving to next phase)
"Singapore's data is more detailed than that of Japan!" said Dr. Tabei, my attending doctor. On February 3rd, he said to me, "the temozolomide works because your gene xxx as shown positive." I, howeve
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Toast to Life 27 (Point of Arrival)
Looking at the title of this blog, you might have had a question mark "?" in mind. Yes, I put it, but not in the blue oval on the picture above.
Had a chat the other day with a person working for a
Toast to Life 26 (Possession?)
Andrew Marshall, an Englishman living in the United States, is one of the very few best friends in my life. Before that, he was a former journalist, which too was the same as my used-to profession, an
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Toast to Life 24 (Optune)
At the end of last November, I had a chance to receive an interview by a medical organization. Advertisement was up and there posted by a medical company uploaded to a FB private site of the brain tum
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Toast to Life 23 (Dr. Tabei)
The attending physician for my brain tumors is Dr. Yusuke Tabei. He is a neurosurgeon at the International University of Health and Welfare Mita Hospital. On January 6th was my first medical examinati
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Toast to Life 22 (Tumor-possessing, Covid-19, and Power of Dissemination)
Recently I got a call from MD Daisuke Yamanoi for the first time in a few months. Around 6 pm on a weekend, he was already drunk. "Today was half a dag ('han-don' in Japanese)." From this point of our
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Toast to Life 21 (hard shell and empathy, both in mind)
My wife said the other day, "you lately haven't had enough empathy for people." I was surprised at her words. Upon my discharge out of the Narita hospital in September, I realized a little on this emp
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