甲北病院院長 近藤 幹のブログ

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On one Sunday morning in late April, I was sitting in front of my computer, thinking of the difficult task I was about  to carry out. The task was meant to test my bravery. It was demanding both physically and mentally.  The name of that task was, shampooing our cat, mii. It has been over a year since she was last shampooed.

 

As I remember very clearly, the first time I shampooed her, she was still a kitten. After being shampooed, she was soaking wet and shivering. I gently wiped her with a warm bath towel but that did not seem to do it; I decided to use a hair dryer to dry her fur. Not yet knowing what this world was all about, she was very scared by the sound of the hair dryer as it was turned on. And when the warm wind blew her fur, her fear had peaked, and she pathetically wanted to run away from that scary object. She clearly was so desperate. However, my left hand was on her way. She tried to get away from my hand, by biting my thumb. That moment, a sharp pain just ran from my thumb to my brain as her fang penetrated through my nail and stopped just short of a bone in my thumb. What's even worse, her fang did not come off my thumb easily so that she had to swing her head a few times, causing more pain to my thumb.

 

After I turned off the hair dryer, mii eventually calm down and let me do the rest of the drying, in front of the electric heater, which was what I should have done in the first place. Luckily, my thumb did not get infected, even though I did not take an antibiotic. It took two weeks for that wound to heal, though.

 

Last time I shampooed her, she was more grown up and had come to know the world better, but while I was drying her on my lap, she vomited...and I mean, all she had, on my lap, and on her feet, and then she ran around the carpet with those feet. An extra hour was needed to clean up what had been left behind.

 

As I was going through these memories, my older son, Teru came to me and volunteered to do the job. Well, I figured he was old enough to learn the task, and so I let him do the work under my supervision. He completed his mission successfully and, well, quite satisfactorily. I was quite happy for my son. He should be proudly taking over the duty in the future.

Death of Steve Jobs

Apple cofounder and a former CEO of Apple Co. died on October 5th.

Although I do not know much about him, from what I have read or heard about him, I felt that he sure was        a great presenter.

I heard his keynote speech on ipad, which, I thought, was very well presented. 

Preparation for the speech, the way the presentation was conducted, and how manipulation of the ipad and its ability were visualized, all added together to bring about the great speech, to the point that it was actually entertaining to any listeners...

I read the book analyzing his speech and presentation abilities, and I had a lot to learn from the book, as well. (Although toward the second half of the book, its contents were not about Steve Jobs anymore but about         entrepreneuers other than Steve Jobs who succeeded in their own business fields and their unique ideas and   experiences, and so the book might as well have a different title...)

Well, it's not much of my business in any ways but I wonder how Apple Co. will be fared in the near future...

Dear my old friends

Dear my old friends,

 

Especially those Japanese people who attended Drew College Prep in the 80's, if you get this message

please log in to the Facebook and search me by "Kan Kondo".

 

I am waitin' for you...

About our intragastric balloon diet system

Good news for those foreigners who live in Japan, and are thinking of losing weight but have difficulty doing so.

We have started the intragastric balloon system diet program.

As many of you might know, the intragastric balloon diet is recognized in the world as one of the safest, and most effective, way to lose weight.

It is currently the main stay of the dieting methods in countries such as the United States, Canada, England, Australia, the Phillippines, and so forth.

The treatment regimen is simple. We do the upper gastrointestinal endoscopy, and if no diseases are found that contraindicate balloon placement, then, we proceed with the placement of the intragastric balloon.

The procedure takes a mere 20-30 minutes, and you would be put asleep throughout the entire procedure so that everything is over when you wake up.

We ask you to stay in the hospital for a couple of days to make sure that no rare complications occur.

The cost of the procedure is actually set to be cheaper than those of most other countries.
Hence, it is actually cheaper than if you have the same procedure in your own country (we have checked the costs in some other countries... Indeed, the costs of the procedure in these countries are medically hyperinflated. )

Please do not hesitate to ask us about the procedure. The price for the foreiners, of course, is the same as that for Japanese patients, since this procedure is not covered by the Japanese national insurance policy anyway.