Chapter 2 (16) The Day We Saw Hope in the Words, 'Everything is Going Well'

Even while temporarily back home, tumor marker checks were performed regularly.


On days when my husband's primary doctor was on outpatient duty, we would go to the hospital to check the tumor marker results.


The levels remained within the normal range.


"Everything is going well."


Until we heard those words, we had been in such a tense atmosphere that we had forgotten how to breathe.


I wondered if I had ever felt my own heartbeat so intensely throughout my entire body before.


The smile and the words the doctor showed us in the examination room gave us hope time and time again.


And then, my husband's hair also began to grow back little by little.


The doctor gave him permission to return to society, and it was decided that he could return to work while continuing his outpatient visits.


My husband, who never thought he would be able to return to society within a year,


went to work every morning with his eyes shining.


While I was happy,


I was also deeply worried about my husband, whose physical strength had declined.


He commuted to the city center by train,


and would be exhausted when he returned home.


Even so, after about ten days,


his body gradually began to get used to it.


Our daughter also started to say "Papa" and "Mamma,"


and we all rejoiced as a family over that small growth.

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