Memoir Excerpts

We visited a Shinto shrine on the way home from the hospital to commemorate Akira’s recovery. A phone call interrupted our visit.

Running a fever, I stayed home leaving Akira alone at the hospital. After resting, I tried to work until a crow arrived with a message.

Akira got worse instead of better after surgery. Find out how the nurse responded, and how energy healing contributed to his turnaround.

How do you take care of yourself when your spouse is having surgery? Exhausted and with no more “yoyu,” I got help from an unexpected source.

I wasn’t afraid Akira would die from cancer. Instead, I feared that he would die and leave me alone to care for his father.

I waited for Akira to make his own decision to go chemo-free and in the meantime, supported his recovery through what we ate and drank.