For Jun

みなさま、メリークリスマス!!今日は嬉しい嬉しいニュースがあります☆
本田家にサンタさんが来てくれました～!!準が声を出せるようになったんです!!!初めはもごもご音を出したり、こちらが言っていることを繰り返すだけで、音もハッキリせずに何を言っているのかよくわからない状態だったのですが、少しずつ音もハッキリしてきました。今は繰り返すだけではなくて、簡単なことはコミュニケーションも取れます。本当に嬉しいです!!!思わず涙・・・。心配していた記憶も、今のところ大きく失っていない様子です。ヤッターーー!!!

リハビリも毎日しっかり頑張っているようです！本人は大変だろうけど、これからが楽しみで仕方ありません。ますます前向きに楽しく毎日頑張りまーす!!

みなさまも素敵なクリスマスをお過ごしください☆

Merry Christmas, friends and families! Today, I have a big news for you! Santa has come to our family! Jun started to speak!!!! He still mumbles because of lack of muscle around his moutn, but we can surely communicate!! It’s awesome! It seems he didn’t lose his memory. It’s super great because it was one of the biggest concerns that we had. YYYYYYAAAAAYYYYYYYYY!!!

He is doing great job at his rehabilitation everyday. He is making progress every single day. I can’t wait to see more improvement!

I wish all merry christmas! Thank you for being such a great person for us!

ご報告が遅くなりましたが、月曜日に無事転院いたしました。
転院の当日は多くの看護士さん（とお隣の患者さん）に見送られ本人はとってもご機嫌な様子♪そして何より久しぶりに病院の外に出られて嬉しかったのでしょう。移動の車内でも終始ご機嫌で、その時の表情からはまだ意識が完全に戻っていないなんて考えられないくらいでした。
転院先の病院はリハビリテーション科なので、毎日休みなくリハビリが続いています。初日は本人も緊張して不安そうでしたが、ここでもスタッフの方や他の患者さんたち（笑）に支えられ、毎日少しずつ慣れてきているようです。明日は病院でクリスマス会です☆姉のわたしが楽しみにしています♪えへへ。

He has moved to his new hospital on Monday. When he left the previous one, lots of nurses and his neighbor patient came to say good-bye, so he was pretty happy about that. In addition, he was thrilled for a car ride! Seeing his delighted face, we almost forgot what troubles he has.
At new hospital, he has a solid schedule with three different kinds of rehabilitation; physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech therapy. He was nervous during first couple of days, but it seems like he already made his “fan” at this place too. Tomorrow, they will have a christmas party on his floor. I am pretty excited to participate with him! 🙂

お知らせです。来週の月曜日、１２月14日に転院することが決まりました。勝手ながら転院先の詳細については、個人的にご連絡いただければと思います。リハビリの内容がより充実する予定なので、今から楽しみです！けれど、今までお世話して下さた病院のスタッフの方々とのお別れは寂しいです。「お世話になったお礼に元気になってみんなに会いに来ようね」と準と約束しました！

He will move to new hospital next Monday. In that place, he will get more specialized training/rehabilitation, so we are pretty happy about it. It must be hard to leave current hospital though…the staff are just so nice! I promised Jun to come back here to surprise them when he gets lots better! That would be great!

昨日、気管切開が取れました！まだ痛みだか違和感だかがあるようなので、様子見ですが・・・今週末には落ち着くといいです☆昨日は久しぶりにご飯が流動食だけだったのでご機嫌ﾅﾅﾒでした。。。

He had his tracheotomy removed yesterday! It seems like it still hurts, so we will see how it goes. He wasn’t happy at all yeterday because he couldn’t eat anything…poor boy.

気づいたら事故から3ヶ月以上経っていました。あっという間だったような、とてつもなく長かった3ヶ月だったような・・・。けれど3ヶ月前には、3ヶ月後にこんなに笑える日々が来るとは思っていませんでした。ほんとみなさまのお力のおかげです。いつもありがとうございます。

最近の準は、ご飯をモリモリ食べているせいか顔がふっくらしてきました。笑。　普段ご飯食べる時はあまり表情が出ないのですが、母の作るチョコパンを食べる時は笑ってくれます。味がちゃんとわかるのかなぁ？チョコパンもちぎって渡してあげると、自分で口に運んで食べています！特に食べ物の制限はないので、最近はしっかりおやつまで食べています。贅沢者ですね～。

もちろんおやつを食べるからにはリハビリも頑張っています！最近は平行棒を使って歩く練習をしているようです。まだ支えは必要だけれど、毎日少しずつ進歩しているようです。先月ﾎﾞｰﾙを落とすことしか出来なかったｷｬﾁﾎﾞｰﾙも、今はだいぶ投げることに近くなってきました。今日もお見舞いに来てくれたお友達とｷｬｯﾁﾎﾞｰﾙをしました☆

あとは話せるようになって、意識が完全に戻ってくれるのみです。クリスマス前にサンタさんが来てくれたらいいなぁ～☆

It has been already (or probably ONLY) 3 months since the accident. It seems looong time for us, but we didn’t imagine 3 months ago that we could have such a good day within 3 months. Thank you so much for your continuous support!

He has been eating a lot these days. He eats pretty much everything including our mom’s homemade chocolate bread! He doesn’t look happy when he usually eats, but he smiles when he eats mom’s bread! Does he remember/ taste the bread?!?! He eats it by himself. He enjoys some snacks in the afternoon as well. What a spoiled boy! lol

He is working hard on his rehabilitation too, of course! He started to practice walking with bars (and support from his back) sometimes in a week. It seems hard for him, but he makes progress a bit day by day. He can play catch better too! He had a good time with playing catch with his friend the other day.

Next thing that we are waiting is talking with him! I feel like it will come pretty soon. Is Santa Claus coming to Honda family? ☆　You are welcome to come earlier than Christmas, Santa!

今週に入って、ご飯を食べる勢いがますます増してきました！
週の初めには5分粥・ムース食だったものが今日には全粥・一般食に。食べやすいように細かく刻んであることもあり、食べるスピードもどんどん速くなっているように思います。スプーンにご飯をのせて渡してあげると自分で食べることもできるようになりました。この調子でモリモリ食べて、体力つけて行ってほしいなぁ。

Jun is eating more and more everyday! He ate only porridge and mushed vegetables on Monday but he eats mushy rice and regular vegetables, meat, and fish. He eats much faster now as well. He even uses his spoon once I give it to him with rice on it. I hope he will get more energy nfor more rehabilitation! Thank you for your continuous prayers!

Today Jun threw a ball. Actually the ball was dropped from his hand, but he did it on purpose! He is eating a jello-like food to re-learn eating. His visitors are pretty sure he can hear, see, and understand them. He can even understand English, too! Mihori’s American co-workers visit him sometimes and he seems to understand them.

Recently Jun was able to give a high-five and also give a peace sign! Thank you everyone for your caring concern and interest in Jun’s recovery. We are making progress!

Video of Jun drinking water on his own!

Jun is having  good days and bad days recently. In a good day, he can ride on a wheel chair and go out of hospital for a half hour or so. He looks like smiling sometimes and moves his body a lot. In a bad day, he doesn’t move, has no facial expression, and stay in bed for the whole day.

First of all, thank you soooooooooo much for all your thoughts, cards, loves, and prayers for Jun and us!! They have been helping us a lot. We really appreciate that.

Today, Jun had an MRI. It was actually his first MRI since the accident because he had some metal protections for his teeth. You know, you can’t take MRI with metal, right? Anyway, the doctor said his brain stem and some parts in the frontal lobe are damaged. Brain stem controls pretty much everything, so it is a crucial damage for him, and that is the reason why he is still unconscious. He blinks, moves his arms, yawns… but it is rather natural body reaction than responses and doesn’t count as conscious. He can’t respond to us at all yet.

The doctor said she has no idea how long would it take to be conscious. It might be within this year, or forever. We are pretty sure it will take long time. Only we can do right now is talk to him, give him lots of stimuli, trust him, and wait. It would be tough, but we want to fight with him, for him. Luckily, I have such a great/ positive parents, so I feel like we can go for it!

Anyway, thank you again! Papa and Mama said thank you and hello to all of you as well!!
We love you!

Mihori