For Jun

絵画館前

先週、我が家では家族揃ってインフルエンザの注射をしてもらいました。いい大人が揃って・・ナンテ笑われそうですが、なんとなくタイミングがあったりして（苦笑）
私（mama)も主人も今までしたことがないのに・・・・
これもJunのおかげでしょうか？！
　皆様も早めの予防をお勧めします。

週末Junは海外に留学する高校のお友達の☆いってらっしゃい会☆に参加しました。送り迎えはアッシー君がしてくれるので安心♡
楽しく過ごしてくるようです（ホッ）。

　Hello!!
Last week, our family had been a vaccinasion against influenza.
becouse we are all.
we are indebted to Jun for our doing(smile).

Jun would come to the send-off party of his friend of high school for
going to abroad and study.
Jun was very happy.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　by mama☆

HELLO!!

実は前回から忙しく帰宅の遅いMIHORIに代わって私（mama)がUPしてますのでよろしくお願いします。

今週は秋の深まった代々木公園での様子をお伝えします。
お天気もよく気持ちもよく足取りも軽く・・・・？！
JUNは真剣そのものですが。。。

This is Mama writing instead of busy Mihori…sorry for not writing in English! I will do my best! love-Mama

なかなかRefreshできない現状にこのページを楽しみにして下さっている方には本当に申し訳ないと思っています。

JUNは週3回のリハビリと近くの中学校のプールにwalking＆swimming
にいっているほか、先月より鍼治療を始めました。
papa,mamaの友人の勧めでいろいろなことに挑戦しています（感謝）。

今月はお姉え（mihori）のBirthdayに4人でFrenchを食べに行きました。

cakeを作る手伝いもしましたよ♪♪♪

できあがり（completion!!!)

こんにちは！
いつになく暑い日が続いていたので、なかなか秋を感じられませんでしたが
気がつけばもう９月も終わりに近づいていますね。

準はおかげさまで、相変わらず元気にやっています！
今日は家での様子を少しだけ・・・♪

he folds more neatly than his mom! 🙂

mom wanted to take a photo of Jun vacuuming, but she failed.

it's one of his daily chores!

急に気温が下がりましたね。
みなさま、風邪などひかれませんように。

Hello!
We had been having HOT/steaming summer days until last week, but it is actually already the end of September! Time flies!

Jun is doing pretty well at home. Here are some ideas how he’s doing;)

I hope you all are having good ones. We love you so much!

Mihori

This is Megan again. I posted an entry a few weeks ago, and I just finished spending a whole month in Tokyo. I stayed at the Hondas’ house for the first two weeks of August, just about a week after Jun moved home from the hospital.

The whole family is so happy to have Jun home. He has made such amazing progress over the past year since his accident, and everyone is so proud of him. As I said last time, Jun is learning to help around the house, like folding laundry and vacuuming his own room.

Even so, things are not easy for the family. Most of all, Jun is working very hard learning and practicing all of his new skills at home, and living in an active family lifestyle again—he gets tired sometimes, 😉 But Mama and Papa and Mihori also have many, many challenges with Jun living at home. It is not easy helping a family member with such severe physical and mental/emotional disabilities as Jun every day, all day. He still needs help to do many daily tasks, and now the family does not have doctors and nurses to help them the way that they used to. They are helping him to do those things, but they are also trying to help him to learn so that someday he might be able to do them again for himself.

I am so proud of the Hondas for what they do every single day. They are always saying how proud they are of Jun, but they should also be proud of themselves. They are an amazing family, and it is so clear that they love each other so much, taking care of each other during this tough time.

So please keep sending your words of support to Jun, and to Mama and Papa and Mihori too!!!

But even though things are sometimes hard, there are still many things to celebrate! Here are some photo highlights from my time in Tokyo (I will post a video some time soon, too):

Brotherly backrub

Tired Hondas

Karaoke!

With a lacrosse friend, over for dinner 🙂

At the Tokyo Giants game!

game

Mama, Jun, and Papa at the baseball game!

Hello all!

How’s your summer? We’ve been having a HOT/HUMID summer here in Tokyo.
It has been a month since Jun came back home. He has been undergoing rehabilitation twice a week at a hospital near our house. When he doesn’t have one, we take him to a swimming pool where he can practice to walk without any help from us or even enjoy swimming! We believe it is a good training for him. In this summer, we had lots of fun with Megan and Evan; karaoke, good dinners, a baseball game (without poor Mihori…she had to work as you may easily imagine lol)

We even visited his first hospital. When Jun left that hospital, he wasn’t able to speak yet, so nurses and doctors were happy to see him speaking, standing, and walking!

It has been an entire year since the accident. It was a long but fast year. We still have some stuff that has been challenging for us to deal with, but we are doing pretty good and having good time everyday!

Have a good one!
love, mihori

This one is from Megan (a friend of Jun and his family).

I arrived in Tokyo from the U.S. yesterday. It has been one year since I was in Japan and since I had seen Jun and the Hondas. In fact, I was here the day that Jun was in his accident last August. When I left Japan last year to return to my home in Michigan two weeks later, Jun was still unconscious, and I left with a very heavy heart, wondering if I would ever see Jun awake again.

This August, as you know if you have been keeping up with Mihori’s posts, Jun has come a VERY long way. I have only been here for about 24 hours, but I have seen him doing things that seemed impossible one year ago. He moved home last week, and his house has been adjusted to help him move around on his own. He walks without a cane, holding railings, getting around the house; he eats on his own (with chopsticks or silverware) along with his family for breakfast, lunch, and dinner; he plays with his Nintendo DS, doing games designed specifically for people who have suffered brain injuries; he talks with everyone around him, and has as much of a fun-loving personality as he always has had; he cleans up after himself after meals; he helps his family to keep the house in order, folding laundry, etc. In short, he is back to being a regular member of this family, living at home, working together, and laughing together. A fantastic thing to see!

I have been invited to go with Papa, Mihori, and Jun to Jun’s rehabilitation class next week so he can show off his mad skills. Stay posted. There is more to come!

もしかしたら写真がうまくアップされていないかもしれません！早急に対処いたしますので、しばらくお待ちください。ごめんなさい！

Sorry you might be having a trouble seeing the pictures. I will take care of it as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience. I will add a post in English soon as well. I’m just telling you that Jun graduated from college!!

更新がなかなか出来ずに申し訳ありません。いつも気にかけていただいてありがとうございます。

新しいリハビリ病院に移ってから約１ヶ月が経ち、先日主治医の先生から経過報告がありました。経過は順調で、１ヶ月間で予想以上の回復が見られるので今後も期待しましょう、というようなお話でした。まだまだ懸念される部分は多々残っていますが、とりあえずは一安心です!!

その先生とのお話の中で、今の目標として３月中旬に退院して、その後は自宅での生活を目指そう、ということで全員一致でまとまりました。そのためにはあと２ヶ月でクリアしなければいけない課題がたくさんありますが、今まで通りの準の日々の努力があればきっと目標を達成できることと信じています。時々準のリハビリに付き添うことがあるのですが、本当に常に真剣に全力で取り組んでいて、姉バカを承知でほんとうに立派だな、と感心させられます。

また更に元気になった準にも会いに来てくださいね☆みなさまの応援が彼にとって一番の元気の源になると思います。家族は毎日周りでワイワイガヤガヤうるさいだけですので・・・（笑）どうぞよろしくお願いいたします。

Thank you for your continuous thoughts and prayers!

It has been about a month since Jun moved to current hospital. We had a conference with his doctor the other day. She said his rehabilitation is going pretty well and Jun made a greater progress than she expected. It was good to hear that! Although we still have lots of concerns that we need to overcome, but we are pretty happy so far. We all set our goal together then; we want Jun to come home in the middle of March!! I believe Jun can make it happen. He is trying so hard on his training every single day which shouldn’t be easy for him. I am really proud of him!

Thank you again for your support. I can’t wait to tell you more good news soon!

Much love
Mihori