Toast to Life 32 (4N5D Admission, No. 3 - Spinning Lives)

MD. Tabei possesses a wonderful personality, as was again found during my admission.

It was the next day of the night Dr. Tabei had pasted the four Alleys to my head. I am quoting from my diary.

"Around eight o'clock that night, he suddenly came and visited my bed of a four-beds compartment. With a grinning face, he was about to show a minor plot to his staff of something 'educational'. Taking me to the 9th floor (my room was on the 8th floor for patients of digestive cancers). He said at the 9th floor's nurse station, then started talking, ’this is Novo TTF (Optune). While I often talk at lectures and conferences, but I thought that nurses in the admission floors here have never seen the device along with the patients. So I asked Mr. Sato to come up here.' Ah, that's what it was. This person was amazing after all."

At that time, more than 10 nurses on duty were having a meeting for their grave yard shift. The moment when Dr. Tabei's started talking, 20+ gazes turning to me all at once just surprised me. However, I immediately regained my mind and asked a nurse in front, like, "would you like to bring a battery?", and passed that along with the cover and strap, although I call the set sometimes as a lunchbox due to its heaviness. The response was "oh, it's pretty heavy." Yes, the battery is heavy. Her word later came up to my mind, when a Novocure technician who visits my home or the Mita Hospital every month said after my discharge, "I wish it were about the size of a mobile phone. It seems that improvements are being made every day, but we have zero chance to be informed of." Novocure's Optune occupies 100% of TTF's global market, and it would be quite natural that they are concerned about trade secret leakage. 

So, Dr. Tabei. He offered me to even change by himself the Alleys during the admission, and he did it. Or, when I call the Hospital from home, he always returns back the call back by himself, which is probably contrary to the Hospital's protocol. He naturally "emits" atmosphere of "staying with patients", and tries to spin their lives somehow. 

Not exactly inspired by him, on April the 26th (Mon), after I was discharged, I went to the photo exhibition "照らす (Illuminate)" (photo), sponsored by Ms. Natsuki Yasuda (and Mr. Kei Sato) of a NPO "Dialog for People" ( #D4P ). Not too many photos hanging on the walls, there were found those from Eastern Japan Earthquake, or others of a father of a suiciding student. On that day, I wrote in Twitter:

"I felt like my life wouldn't last if I didn't go to this event. I went there today on the last day of the exhibition. Last year, I experienced how difficult it was to spin my life. I felt it by seeing the photos one by one, taken by her."

(To be continued.)