The following is a heart-rending personal account by a mother in Miyagi Japan about the terrible things that have happened in her family since March 11, 2011 when Fukushima Daiichi became a tremendous agent of death.
We provide an English translation immediately below and the original Japanese below that.
How do you do?
Please excuse my sudden submission of email.
Since my friend introduced me to your blog, I have always referred to it.
I am a housewife living in Miyagi prefecture.
Since this earthquake disaster, I am exhausted mentally and physically due to a succession of unlikely incidents.
The successive occurrence concerns me, though it might be unrelated to the Fukushima Genpatsu Accident, here I’d like to email reporting it.
There are three phenomena which I would like to report.
First, I was pregnant at the time of the earthquake disaster. On March11th, at 9 weeks of pregnancy, it was the time of morning sickness. As it was “tabeoso” (needing to eat constantly in order to avoid nausea), I consumed whatever I could put my hand on and was taking care of my two year old son and my nieces outdoor in good weather while the family went to the disaster clean up work.
When May arrived, I went to the prenatal care testing, to which I was unable to go since the earthquake disaster at a hospital, and there, anencephaly of the fetus was detected.
Due to the progression of pregnancy, the immediate hospitalization for an abortion was inevitable.
I was devastated as my child had been affected by this one out of tens of thousands deformity.
Thereafter, menstruation restarted, yet the usual 28 day cycle became 33 day, the cramps are extremely strong, and recently i became aware of the symptoms that are connected to endometritis.
I have a two year old and is focused to protect this child, so we tried the best to spend the time indoors and had been mindful of the origin of beverages and food.
However in July, when a little healing from the sadness regained my poise, the two year old came down with the sudden onset of strong abdominal pain, then diarrhea and bloody stools. This is the second incident.
We rushed to the hospital, and the diagnosis was intussusception. Anesthetization was given immediately to treat the symptoms. Fortunately, it didn’t require a surgery.
After the earthquake disaster, I asked the doctor about the child’s nasal discharge which continued for two months, it was dismissed as either just a cold or a weak symptom of an allergy. His intussusception this time was explained to me that even though the rarity of onset at the age of two was recognized, well, it did happen rarely.
Why my children are threatened by such life’s dangers? The thought made me deeply depressed.
The third incident is a sudden death of our pet dog at my parents’ home last week. We live in a walking distance from my parents’.
The cause of death, cardiac hypertrophy.
The dog loved playing with the rocks in the garden and played always rolling in the dirt.
It was hard to believe that it lost a vigor suddenly and died within a day as it was playing hard and eating well until the day before.
Three incidents, each of its own phenomenon.
These may not be related to radiation and really is a coincidence.
But I would like to report as the unlikelihood of probabilities of these succeeding events makes me suspicious.
初めまして。
突然のメールで失礼致します。
友人からブログを紹介してもらって以来、ずっと参考にさせていただいております。
私は宮城県在住の主婦です。
今回の震災以降、あまり起き得ないことが立て続けにあり、精神的にも肉体的にも疲れております。
必ずしも福島原発事故の放射能の影響ではないのかもしれませんが、立て続けに起きているのが気になったので報告のメールをさせていただきました。
ご報告したい事象は、３点あります。
まず１つ目、私は震災当時に妊娠をしておりました。3月11日は妊娠９週。ツワリのひどい時期でしたが食べ悪阻だったので、とにかく手に入るものは迷わず飲み、食べ、そして家族が震災の片付けで力仕事をしているあいだ、２歳の息子や、姪達を天気の良い外で遊ばせておりました。
５月に入り、震災後行くことができていなかった妊婦検診を病院で受け、そこで、胎児の無脳症が発覚。
週数も進んでいたので、すぐに入院して堕胎という決断をやむを得なくされました。
何万人に一人という確率の奇形が、まさか自分の子供に降り掛かるなんて…当時は絶望でした。
その後、生理が再開するも、いつも28日周期だったのが33日周期になったり、生理痛がものすごく強くて、最近では、もしかして内膜症なのだろうかと疑える症状すら出てきました。
私には２歳の子どもがおりますので、放射能からこの子を守りたい一心で、飲み物食べ物の産地にはかなり気を付けて、なるべく室内で過ごすようにしておりました。
しかし７月。悲しみから少し癒えて落ち着いてきた頃に、２歳の子どもが突然強い腹痛を訴え、下痢、血便。
これが２つ目の出来事です。
あわてて病院へ駆け込み、腸重積と診断され、すぐに麻酔をして処置。幸い、手術にならずに済むことができました。
震災後、子どもの鼻水が２ヶ月ほど出続けていることも気になり、医師に尋ねましたが、単なる風邪か、弱いアレルギー症状でしょう、と言われ、今回の腸重積については２歳になって初めて起こるのはかなり珍しいが、まぁ、たまたまなったのでしょうね、、、くらいで終わってしまいました。
なぜこんなにも私の子供たちが生命の危機にさらされるのだろう…
そう考えると、大変落ち込みました。
3つ目は、私の実家で飼っていた愛犬が、先週、突然亡くなったことです。
私の実家は今住んでいる場所から徒歩で行ける距離です。
愛犬の死因は、心臓肥大。
庭の石ころで遊ぶのが大好きで、いつも土にまみれながら遊んでいた犬でした。
前日まで元気に遊び、たくさん食べていたのに、急に元気がなくなり、たった一日で亡くなってしまったなんて、本当に信じられませんでした。
3つそれぞれの事象。
これらは本当に偶然で、放射能の影響ではないのかもしれません。
でもそう疑ってしまうくらい、あまり起き得ない確率のことが立て続けだったので、今回、報告させていただきました。