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!
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Mama, Jun, and Papa at the baseball game!
