Episode2：Infect diphtheria, wander on life and death.

Infect diphtheria, wander on life and death.

In July 1957, in the summer of 4 years old, I entered a nearby kindergarten, 8 months later,

Diphtheria in the neighborhood got in fashion.

I was not durable by nature, sometimes, unfortunately,

It infected the diphtheria.

5-6 friends also infected, but recovered in about a week.

I got awful, I went to a nearby Mutual Aid Hospital isolation ward

I got hospitalized.

He was hospitalized but did not improve symptoms,

(A membrane is formed in the throat and breathing can not be done), the mother,

I was supposed to attend 24 hours nursing.

Every night, when the pseudomembra occludes the throat, I can not breathe, so I do not sleep,

The film was broken by fingers.

　 As it continued for several weeks, I opened a hole 

directly in my throat, a small one

Plastic trumpet-like attachment, breathable

It was made to do.

Even after several months, my symptoms worsen, 

I can not eat,

Eventually, cardiac arrest occurred several times.

Each time, the doctor made the heart move in 

resuscitation procedures.

And, until the last moment, it was getting worse, 

little by little,It has recovered.

Since half a year has passed, I was able to take meals,

My face looks reddish and it got better.

At the time, diphtheria was prevalent, but when it 

became severe,

It was the reality that he died.

Among them, an example of recovering with 

such severe cases,

It seems that it was rare, the teachers announced 

at the conference.

Therefore, everyday, urine, blood,

I gathered sputum and so on.

With hospitalization for one year, we miraculously save our lives

It may be thanks to God that I could do it.

In March of that year, after discharge he was a day of home care.

When I became healthy, it was time to enter elementary school.

Elementary school, I could walk from my house 

about 30 minutes on foot.

Poor living did not change, but why,

Every morning, milk was delivered.

Care about my body, give me special, drink

It was felt.

However, I am sorry for my parents but I can not like it,

I often had them drink the leftover drink.

Physical education classes can not participate, from far away, watching,

I was either in the school room.

It was said that from the doctor for the time being, 

the movement at school was forbidden.

Therefore, it became fat baby, becoming an obese child.

The livable, remodeled barn is tameless,

In other, it was to live in a rented house.

The next rental house was a fisherman's town, 

about 8 km away, by the sea.

By around this time, when my father came home early, nearby

In the breakwater, fishing, Aji, Tako, Squid, Shako, Mackerel,

A variety of fish came up to the table, and it began.

Especially, it is convenient, the big ones are sashimi, salt-baked,

It was something I ate with fried bean sauce.

On the day when squid, octopus, shako could be taken away, 

my father,　I remember being in good spirits.