Category: Everyday Life

It should be ready soon!

Last year, a friend asked me how I was doing with my personal manga, so I told her about my plans for it.
I am almost finished work on a disease diary related to the detached retina I had in 2006, which was our biggest event. Yes, it’s a disease diary. I could call it an essay, but I don’t think it is a report of my struggle with a disease. And I couldn’t write serious medical topics.
Three surgeries for the detached retina, one surgery for complications that rarely happen after those other surgeries, and one necessary surgery in 2007 following on the surgeries in 2006. I stayed in hospital for a total of fifty-one days between August 2006 and June 2007.

I wanted to finish earlier, but I had trouble with my eyes. I had a strange sense of near and far for a long time, so I felt it was difficult to write (draw) on paper. (To tell the truth, that sense is still strange, but I got used to it a little.) Work using a computer is actually easier because these is some distance from my eyes to the display.

The finished work will have text, illustrations, and manga in both Japanese and English. We added more and more things we are able to do by ourselves. Is it just that we are greedy?

An Andalusian Dog’s Life:
The case of my detached retina
This is the book’s title. I have a plan to print a small number of copies.
Please read it if it appeals to you!

I’ve now finished my parts, and I asked (with pressure) to professional Chris to fix my English and do the book layout for me instead of giving me a birthday present.

Yes! It’s a happy birthday to me, today.

However, against my offer (command?), he gave me a Christmas rose in a pot and a box of cream-puffs.

– YS, 12 March 2008

12 March 2008