Life Sustaining Treatment

My mother, 81 years old, ate a piece of bread that clogged her throat and made her stop breathing.  Then my dad and brother called an ambulance and this happened on the last Tuesday, June 16th..

She had been unconscious for 5 days and in a coma on her hospital bed at the CCU room and she started breathing without artificial ventilation on Saturday but  with very weak brain wave.

Fortunately she is still alive, but unconscious now due to cardiopulmonary resuscitation comprising of an artificial hydration and nutrition, intubation and mechanical ventilation.

The doctor recommended that she needs to be on a life sustaining treatment, such as Tracheotomy for airway management and Grastrostomy for nutrition.

My mother told us that she would not like to be under life sustain treatment and she wants to have a natural death.  She has been suffering from Parkinson's disease for 6 years and she knew that now it is her time.

Some articles revealed that the spirit of a comatose person leaves the body and float around the bed. This spirit hovers over the body and sees it from the birds view angle.
Unfortunately, I did not feel her spirit around her bed.  She is still alive and I will be looking for her spirit for a while.

Hydrangea in the wet season of Japan.

Hydrangea is a symbolical flower with the wet season in Japan.  June in Japan is usually wet in everywhere besides Hokkaido, the northern island in Japan.  This wet season is called "tsuyu", which literally means "Japanese plum (Ume) rain", but the relation between Japanese plum and rain is not clear.  Some people say it is the time for Japanese plum to ripen, but no evidences.

Regarding to the rainy season, we have two rainy seasons in Japan; one is the period from June to early July, the other is from the end of August to the beginning of October, the same time of typhoon attacking at Japan.

I say "wet season" instead of "rainy season", because I would like to distinguish with each other and this season is more wet and makes feel blue.