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やはりハワイも冬。朝晩は冷え込んでいます。そんな中、体調を崩し病院に行くと、帯状疱疹になっていたことが分かりました。しかし、優しい先生と主人の看病のおかげで、体調もだいぶ良くなってきました。

それにしても、診察の前に食べたハウピアワッフル、そして、家で主人が作ってくれたストロガノフはとても美味しかったです。これでまた元気になれそうです。

I just finished a grueling month of overtime at work. So as you can imagine. Rest was the first thing I wanted. After feeling refreshed after getting a full nights rest, my wife had mentioned that she was tired after we woke. She hadn’t worked a ton of overtime so why was she tired? She told me it was because she felt like she had dreamt all night, and felt she was awake the whole time. Made me wonder if we really can wear ourselves out because of an active dream life.

Yukiyo has truly chosen the right profession. She is clearly very involved in her work and cares about all of her patients.

I’m not sure if I would react the same way in this situation, or even if I would show the same level of emotion. I would definitely feel sad for this patient who was so confused that she thought she was back home even though she was actually hospitalized. If I felt more strongly about all my patients, I don’t know if I could keep up with my duties.

リハビリでは様々な段階の動作や活動を支援します。
例えば以下のような段階です。

①基本的動作レベル
寝返る、起き上がる、
座る、立つ、歩くなどの基本的動作

②日常的生活動作レベル
食事、更衣、移動、
排泄、整容、入浴など生活に不可欠な動作

③より高次な生活動作及び活動
買い物、洗濯、掃除、
外出、金銭管理、趣味活動など社会生活に必要な活動

基本的な動作能力が改善し、
病院内での活動がある程度自立してきた患者は
屋外での動作や活動もできるように外出訓練を行います。

外出は社会生活を送る上で必要な活動です。
外出訓練は、社会生活の手段を取り戻し
本人が望む生活の質を高めるために行われます。

私が働く病院では
①病院外周を歩く訓練
②病院近くのコンビニやスーパーに買い物に行く訓練
③バスや電車などの公共交通機関を利用した訓練
④患者本人の自宅周辺での訓練
といった内容の外出訓練を行っています。

こうした実践的な屋外での訓練によって、
病院内の生活では現れなかった問題点や課題が見つかり、
具体的なリハビリの目標をたてることができます。

外出訓練はこうした点でも、非常に重要な役割をもっています。

Just this week my son Bali and I took a 15 hour train trip to the Gold Coast to visit my parents. I have mixed feelings about this train trip as although it was certainly an adventure it went on and on and took 15 hours before we finally arrived. I couldnt help but think how in the same amount of time we made this train trip should we have traveled by plane we would be somewhere on the US mainland or India if we traveled west. Yet to take 15 long and enduring hours to end up only 1000 kms from where we started was a little disheartening. In some parts of the train trip the scenery was beautiful however for most part we saw Australian scrub and cattle farms.
Bali and I were so relieved when we finally arrived on the Gold Coast some 15 hours later . We had woken at 5 am that morning for a 7 am departure. We had a lovely time at the Gold Coast staying at my parents house and spending time with them. Bali and I were very happy to catch an aeroplane back on our return journey and the very quick 1 hour that it took made us both so thankful that we also have planes as a travel option.

チェイさんの趣味は、漢字の習得です。
しかし、例えば、「刎頚」と云う漢字は、簡単に書けても、
「交わり」と云う言葉はわからない。
このアンバランスを何とかしなくては！
彼は、新しい漢字を覚えると、早速、送ってきます。
習字の腕も、ますます磨いて欲しいものです。