2013年09月12日
【英文】 Sakuyahime Project Page１
Support for mental patients who are in the shade of public aid
Toshiko Kishi is one of the nominated members of the Sakuya Ｈime Project.
(A project to build a gender-equal human resource debate in Shizuoka .
The Sakuyahime project aims to empower Shizuoka women and develop female leaders for the next age. It was launched in 2010 by the Shizuoka Prefectural Government Office.) Toshiko is a mother who lives in Fujieda city in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, making a great effort to provide a place for mental patients who are in the shade of public aid.
Toshiko Kishi is the C.E.O of the N.P.O Group home and restaurant “Bakery Caffe Wind”. Written below is the process of how she started this project.
1).Tragedy
The tragedy when my second son Ryo was involved in an accident on the way back home from playing outside on his bicycle happened in September, 1992. When I was cooking dinner, my neighbor suddenly rushed into my home shouting “Ryo, Ryo! He was involved in an accident “.She said he was hit by a car. I dashed to the place where the accident happened, close to my house. He had been run over by a car coming the wrong way on the one-way road. Ryo had already lost consciousness, the right side of his head was crushed and a line of blood was running from his ear. He was not breathing. An ambulance took him to the hospital and an operation was done immediately, but the doctors told me that there was no hope of survival because not only his right brain, but left brain was the damaged, too. There is a 99.9 % chance he will not survive. There is no way to make him survive. I told the doctors “ If you say no hope of 99.9 %, there is a 0.1% hope, I bet on 0.1%. Open his head again now, in front of me. I will never regret even if he dies with that operation.” I begged the doctors. I did not want to give up 0.1 hope. Heisei Memorial Hospital is a well-known hospital for brain surgery. Doctors granted my request, and an operation was done again. I even thought if this operation turns out to be an experiment on the human body, I would accept it. After the operation the result was that his consciousness did not come back, but at least he did not die at that time. Doctors said “We can’t tell that he can live one day or two days, There is the possibility of his becoming a human vegetable.” At least I was satisfied that he could survive by the operation .I was given the hope he might be able to live one day longer. Actually he could live three days, I told the doctors. “He can live three days.” Doctors only answered ,“Yes, he can.” He lived four days ,five days and at last one week passed since the doctors had given up.
The person who caused the accident came and said, “How can I pray?” I only answered, “Pray for him that today’s situation lasts even one day longer”. I was not thinking he was cured, I just hoped to keep him living even one day longer.
In the ICU, I kept playing CD player, making him listen to music. After one week passed, an examination of the brain waves was done, and surprisingly his brain waves were rising slightly. This showed proof that his brain was not dead, but still in unconsciousness. Also he was not breathing by himself. Doctors gave me permission to do everything that I wanted to do.
His skull was severely damaged, only the center of the skull remaining. That means his brain was not covered by the skull. If something touched his brain, his life was endangered. I made a floss pillow and put it around his head also I put my two knees preventing anything from touching his headt, and kept playing CD, and cauterized moxibustion point . I was waching his face for 24 hours except going to the toiret.
I tried everything that I could do. I was surprised that doctors gave me permission to do everything. Nurses and other patients encouraged me. Ryo’s consciousness did not come back, his condition was still remaining the same. But the miraculous thing happened, I saw his fingers were moving. Doctors did not trust me and said “It can’t be happening.’ Since then doctors began to think that he might survive. His condition was improving rapidly. One day, he began to say something, one by one, ‘o’-“ka”-“a”-“san” connecting each sound that he said was, “take me to the hospital by your red car.”
At that time I had a red car. I had the confidence that he must have said “Mother, take me to the hospital by your red car.” He definitely said that. It was his first word after the accident. He must have remembered the time of the accident.
2). Unexpected After Effect of Miraculous Recovery
Soon after that, he opened his eyes, although the right eye was crushed and blind. He couldn’t stand up, let alone walk. Because most of his brain was damaged, it did not function. Miraculously, even though he had lost all his memory, he could recognize me saying “mother”.
Doctors gave me the fragments of his skull. I tried to put them together trying to remake his skull by using strong glue and cement. A new skull was made, but if something touched his head, he got the extreme pain. He expressed his pain as “my head is exploding.”
He left the hospital in December three months after the accident happened, and went to school from January (in Japan third term begins in January.) It was a miracle! When he was involved in the accident, his brain damage was too big, doctors completely gave up on saving his life. It might sound like he recovered rapidly, but not rapidly, little by little taking time. At the same time a more difficult time began. After effects of the brain damage caused many kinds of problems.
His frontal lobe, the front part of the brain necrosed, which made him lose emotional control. Above all, many places in his brain hurt. He had an epileptic fit. He went on the rampage. He continued to be hospitalized repeatedly.
I think when he got back his consciousness after three months passed, he was born again as a thirteen year old boy. Only three months made him a thirteen year old boy. There was an imbalance, which he had to adjust himself by battling with the after effects.
Doctors advised me that I might be thinking he is recovering in this pace, but his condition is not simple as I thought. Actually I didn’t have any doubt about his speedy recovery which occurred in this three months. Unfortunately he did not recover as I imagined. I took him to a lot of hospitals searching for ways and doctors to cure him.
One day in the car, on the way to the hospital he suddenly lost the emotional control and began to behave violently. I can’t tell how many times I was endangered by his behavior.
My son’s accident made me start my presents work. I was ignorant about welfare. Through my experience I got to know how families who have mental patients suffer from hardships.
3).Ryo’s case
There were no institutions to accept him. He has both social handicaps and mental handicaps. At the institutions for social handicap, his intellectual level is high, and he could not communicate with mental patients in the mental hospitals.
He went to the local elementally school, but he couldn’t keep pace with other children.
He grew up to the age of junior high school, but he could not go to school every day.
Teachers suggested he to go to school for handicapped children, but he was different from the handicapped children born by nature. He refused to go to the school for handicapped children. He went to local night high school. But he went to school just
One day. I looked for a school or institution to suit him and found one in Nagoya. Nagoya is very far from Fujieda city. He would have to live in the dormitory. He did not want to stay there, and escaped from school on the day he arrived. He did not know how to come back home. He had to ask people how to buy the train ticket.
The last choice for him was a mental hospital. He was hospitalized in a mental hospital, but patients are permitted to stay there three months at the longest. He stayed for three months and came back home and went on a rampage. Such conditions continued.
I was completely exhausted. Sometimes I wished for his death. When he had his accident, I did everything to help him survive. I only prayed for his survival, but I really wished for his death at that time. Never had I thought such a thing before.
Toshiko Kishi is one of the nominated members of the Sakuya Ｈime Project.
(A project to build a gender-equal human resource debate in Shizuoka .
The Sakuyahime project aims to empower Shizuoka women and develop female leaders for the next age. It was launched in 2010 by the Shizuoka Prefectural Government Office.) Toshiko is a mother who lives in Fujieda city in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, making a great effort to provide a place for mental patients who are in the shade of public aid.
Toshiko Kishi is the C.E.O of the N.P.O Group home and restaurant “Bakery Caffe Wind”. Written below is the process of how she started this project.
1).Tragedy
The tragedy when my second son Ryo was involved in an accident on the way back home from playing outside on his bicycle happened in September, 1992. When I was cooking dinner, my neighbor suddenly rushed into my home shouting “Ryo, Ryo! He was involved in an accident “.She said he was hit by a car. I dashed to the place where the accident happened, close to my house. He had been run over by a car coming the wrong way on the one-way road. Ryo had already lost consciousness, the right side of his head was crushed and a line of blood was running from his ear. He was not breathing. An ambulance took him to the hospital and an operation was done immediately, but the doctors told me that there was no hope of survival because not only his right brain, but left brain was the damaged, too. There is a 99.9 % chance he will not survive. There is no way to make him survive. I told the doctors “ If you say no hope of 99.9 %, there is a 0.1% hope, I bet on 0.1%. Open his head again now, in front of me. I will never regret even if he dies with that operation.” I begged the doctors. I did not want to give up 0.1 hope. Heisei Memorial Hospital is a well-known hospital for brain surgery. Doctors granted my request, and an operation was done again. I even thought if this operation turns out to be an experiment on the human body, I would accept it. After the operation the result was that his consciousness did not come back, but at least he did not die at that time. Doctors said “We can’t tell that he can live one day or two days, There is the possibility of his becoming a human vegetable.” At least I was satisfied that he could survive by the operation .I was given the hope he might be able to live one day longer. Actually he could live three days, I told the doctors. “He can live three days.” Doctors only answered ,“Yes, he can.” He lived four days ,five days and at last one week passed since the doctors had given up.
The person who caused the accident came and said, “How can I pray?” I only answered, “Pray for him that today’s situation lasts even one day longer”. I was not thinking he was cured, I just hoped to keep him living even one day longer.
In the ICU, I kept playing CD player, making him listen to music. After one week passed, an examination of the brain waves was done, and surprisingly his brain waves were rising slightly. This showed proof that his brain was not dead, but still in unconsciousness. Also he was not breathing by himself. Doctors gave me permission to do everything that I wanted to do.
His skull was severely damaged, only the center of the skull remaining. That means his brain was not covered by the skull. If something touched his brain, his life was endangered. I made a floss pillow and put it around his head also I put my two knees preventing anything from touching his headt, and kept playing CD, and cauterized moxibustion point . I was waching his face for 24 hours except going to the toiret.
I tried everything that I could do. I was surprised that doctors gave me permission to do everything. Nurses and other patients encouraged me. Ryo’s consciousness did not come back, his condition was still remaining the same. But the miraculous thing happened, I saw his fingers were moving. Doctors did not trust me and said “It can’t be happening.’ Since then doctors began to think that he might survive. His condition was improving rapidly. One day, he began to say something, one by one, ‘o’-“ka”-“a”-“san” connecting each sound that he said was, “take me to the hospital by your red car.”
At that time I had a red car. I had the confidence that he must have said “Mother, take me to the hospital by your red car.” He definitely said that. It was his first word after the accident. He must have remembered the time of the accident.
2). Unexpected After Effect of Miraculous Recovery
Soon after that, he opened his eyes, although the right eye was crushed and blind. He couldn’t stand up, let alone walk. Because most of his brain was damaged, it did not function. Miraculously, even though he had lost all his memory, he could recognize me saying “mother”.
Doctors gave me the fragments of his skull. I tried to put them together trying to remake his skull by using strong glue and cement. A new skull was made, but if something touched his head, he got the extreme pain. He expressed his pain as “my head is exploding.”
He left the hospital in December three months after the accident happened, and went to school from January (in Japan third term begins in January.) It was a miracle! When he was involved in the accident, his brain damage was too big, doctors completely gave up on saving his life. It might sound like he recovered rapidly, but not rapidly, little by little taking time. At the same time a more difficult time began. After effects of the brain damage caused many kinds of problems.
His frontal lobe, the front part of the brain necrosed, which made him lose emotional control. Above all, many places in his brain hurt. He had an epileptic fit. He went on the rampage. He continued to be hospitalized repeatedly.
I think when he got back his consciousness after three months passed, he was born again as a thirteen year old boy. Only three months made him a thirteen year old boy. There was an imbalance, which he had to adjust himself by battling with the after effects.
Doctors advised me that I might be thinking he is recovering in this pace, but his condition is not simple as I thought. Actually I didn’t have any doubt about his speedy recovery which occurred in this three months. Unfortunately he did not recover as I imagined. I took him to a lot of hospitals searching for ways and doctors to cure him.
One day in the car, on the way to the hospital he suddenly lost the emotional control and began to behave violently. I can’t tell how many times I was endangered by his behavior.
My son’s accident made me start my presents work. I was ignorant about welfare. Through my experience I got to know how families who have mental patients suffer from hardships.
3).Ryo’s case
There were no institutions to accept him. He has both social handicaps and mental handicaps. At the institutions for social handicap, his intellectual level is high, and he could not communicate with mental patients in the mental hospitals.
He went to the local elementally school, but he couldn’t keep pace with other children.
He grew up to the age of junior high school, but he could not go to school every day.
Teachers suggested he to go to school for handicapped children, but he was different from the handicapped children born by nature. He refused to go to the school for handicapped children. He went to local night high school. But he went to school just
One day. I looked for a school or institution to suit him and found one in Nagoya. Nagoya is very far from Fujieda city. He would have to live in the dormitory. He did not want to stay there, and escaped from school on the day he arrived. He did not know how to come back home. He had to ask people how to buy the train ticket.
The last choice for him was a mental hospital. He was hospitalized in a mental hospital, but patients are permitted to stay there three months at the longest. He stayed for three months and came back home and went on a rampage. Such conditions continued.
I was completely exhausted. Sometimes I wished for his death. When he had his accident, I did everything to help him survive. I only prayed for his survival, but I really wished for his death at that time. Never had I thought such a thing before.
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