My sister-in-law is a beautiful soul. That is Yasu’s sister, A. Her and I have always gotten on like a house on fire. We always email each other, write letters and send gifts to each other during the year, but in general I get on better with her than any family that are blood related, and consider her a real sister.
Early last year she suffered what the doctors thought was a stroke, she went numb down one side of her body and was hospitalised, and required numerous hours of rehabilitation.
Then, earlier this year, just before her 30th birthday she suffered the same thing again and this time the doctors found out that it wasn’t actually a stroke she was having but a nerve at the top of her spinal cord was acting up. I’m not sure what the disease is called, but basically when the nerve acts up it sends a shockwave through the body and causes stroke-like symptoms of temporary paralysis down one side of the body.
The doctor’s said there is no cure for the disease and to combat it, she would have to inject herself with medicine twice per day for the rest of her life, and if that isn’t enough, she would still suffer these stroke-like happenings up to 6 times per year!
Anyway, last night we called mum and dad in Japan as we hadn’t called them for a while. We both had a sense that something was wrong because A usually messages Yasu for his birthday and she didn’t.
We were shocked to learn that A has been in hospital for the last 3 weeks. She had another happening which has left her blind in her left eye! :(
She’s in a major hospital in Obihiro, one which doesn’t have much experience in treating her disease. She is being treated by steroids through an IV, but that hospital only has experience of treating steroids by IV for 3 weeks maximum and now she is on her 4th week, so is actually making history at the hospital in some awful way.
When we got off the phone I just burst into tears because I couldn’t hold it in anymore. She’s over there being so brave, even when she has lost half her eyesight. She’s only 30 for crying out loud!! This is so not fair!!! Why is such a beautiful person like A going through all this shit??? :(
There’s nothing we can do from here, the only thing I’m doing every chance I get is sending reiki long distance and hope that it can help somehow some way… I wish I could do more.
I don’t know why the good people in this world have to go through so much shit. I look at the evil people in my family and they seem to be getting off scott-free and yet, someone so nice, and still with the world at their feet has to suffer in this way.
:*(
I know life is not easy but why does it have to be so bloody cruel?
