Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Living with Cancer vol.17 - Morning walk.

朝のお散歩を再開しました。


季節が変わるごとに、色も空気も変わっていく景色。
丘の上に登るのに、何度も休憩してやっとこさ。去年は、ここ走っていたんだけどな・・・。今は、毎日筋肉痛です。

牧場の一歩手前に家一件分くらいの沼地があるのですけど、そこで見つけた鳥。何ていう名前だろう。私は自然に詳しくないので分からないんですけど、知っていますか?



Do you know the name of this bird?  If you do, please tell us.

I started my morning exercise...it's just walking a few miles up this hill and go around and back.  I need to stop several times to catch my breath, so Luther and I find lots of things that we didn't notice while we were running this same route last year. We enjoy watching birds for 10 minutes or so.  There are doves, red robins, this black bird, mean bluejays, and lots of unknown ones. 


All of a sudden, Luther shouted, 
"Tokyo Tower!"
.....far far far away, there is one, I guess :)

ルーサーが突然、
「とーきょータワー!」というので、見てみると、ふむ、確かに。遥かかなたにありました。


それから、こんなにかわいいお花たちにも出会います。
赤や黄色やピンクのお花も好きだけど、やっぱりブルーに惹かれます。


We also met these cute flowers.  I love all kinds of colored flowers, yet my favorite color these days is blue.  

After my last treatment of chemo, and from the fear of getting cancer back, I started having pain where the tumors used to be.  I got on the first anti-depressant that I've ever taken in my life.  It makes me very sleepy, and I don't care about any details...I just don't like it; although, it's helping me not think about worst case scenarios.  Well, last week, I learned that exercise is an anti-depressant.  OK!  Isn't that sounds great?  I'll be off of this medication soon!


実は、がん治療が終わってから、再発の恐怖で体調まで壊してしまい、抗うつ剤を服用しています。でも、エクササイズはお薬と同じ効果があるんですって。がんの予防にもなるし。運動、楽しくやっていこう。

4 comments:

YURI said...

綺麗な光景だね!
私もブルーの花、好きだな。

お散歩、楽しんでね♪

Mutsumi said...

ゆり - いっしょに歩きたいね。

Unknown said...

Hi Mutsumi,
The bird in your photo is a Red Winged Black Bird. Not Not a very original name but many of the males will show up this time of year ahead of the females and call out their territories.
Here is a great resource for bird identification- The Cornell Lab of Ornithology http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Red-winged_Blackbird/id
Thinking of you,
Shondell

Mutsumi said...

Thank you Shondell, that really helps. I put the website into my Favorites :)