A Bundle of Miracles

[Age 0]
Come to think of it, my second daughter
has been a handful since the day she was born 👼🏻🍼

After all, until her one-month checkup,
she hardly ever pooped 💩...
I was speechless when the doctor inserted his gloved little finger into her tiny anus
and wiggled it around and around~ 😱
Apparently, it happens sometimes—babies whose anus is blocked.
Not knowing that, I thought maybe the formula was the problem, so I ordered soy-based formula for her to drink 💧. My mother, who had come to Tokyo to help, and I were racking our brains, saying 'this isn't it' or 'that isn't it' 😅

[Around age 2]
After that, she grew up healthy without even catching a cold.
She wasn't shy like her older sister, and she was the kind of child who could play with friends she met for the first time right away.
She was the type whose body couldn't keep up with her enthusiasm,
and she would recklessly run around with her sister's friends, fall down, and cut the inside of her mouth (that little string-like thing connecting the lower lip to the gums 😱) 💧

[Age 5]
Perhaps it was a curse that she had never caught a cold? At the time, a new and old strain of influenza was spreading rapidly, and she had a sudden fever, went into convulsions in the middle of the night, was foaming at the mouth, and was semi-conscious 😱 → rushed to the hospital by ambulance 🚑
The pediatric ward was packed with flu patients and parents staying with them 24/7. My husband, who rushed to accompany her in the 🚑 without even wearing a mask, got infected too 😱 → I took over as her companion.
After two CT scans, she was finally discharged safely after 5 days 💨

No sooner had I felt relieved than
she collided with a friend while holding a toy trumpet in her mouth at kindergarten 😱
For some reason, the teacher didn't call an 🚑 ambulance,
and because of her own stoicism,
the teacher didn't think it was a big deal either... 💧
I picked her up and first went to a local neighborhood doctor.
The doctor looked inside her mouth and said, 'No, we can't handle this here...' and referred us to an oral surgeon, so we headed there by taxi. The doctor didn't think it was an emergency at first because my daughter had completely calmed down, but even there,
they referred us to a general hospital, saying, 'Just in case it has reached from the back of her throat to her brain.' 💧 By that time, my husband had left work early and rushed over by car, so the three of us moved together. By then, it had already been over 3 hours since the accident, right?
Although there was no abnormality in her brain,
they stitched up the back of her throat with a few stitches (without anesthesia!).
When I looked at the clock after the procedure was finished, it had been over 5 hours since the accident... 😓

[Age 11]
Sports day gymnastics... Believe it or not,
it was a pyramid of 99 people (back then, they still
did things like that...).
My daughter, who was about the third tallest in her grade,
was naturally a solid base.
On the first day of practice, everyone was sluggish 💧.
My daughter, who endured as a base
while the pyramid was built up to the very top,
couldn't even hold a pencil for a week 😱 (even though she was a student preparing for entrance exams).
When we went to the hospital, the doctor was even angrier
than I was (at the teacher's handling of the situation) 💦

[Age 14]
On the first day of the club's summer training camp, suddenly,
it seems she was ignored by dozens of her classmates.
It seems one girl instigated it.
But the advisor's response was slow,
and since she didn't say anything after coming home,
I only thought, 'She seems a bit tired.'
After that, she did her best to go through her daily life for over a month,
and finally, she was so exhausted that she stopped going to school.
I won't write the details here,
but just thinking that she had no place to escape during the training camp
and was suffering alone,
still makes my heart ache and tighten even now.
I'm just so glad she recovered...
That's all I feel now.
Oh my, looking back,
there were so many things I had forgotten 😅.


I can't help but be grateful
that she is safe now.
Being alive is a miracle.

In any case,
congratulations on reaching adulthood ✨️

May the path ahead
be filled with hope.

🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀

By the way, I learned this for the first time during last year's pre-shoot...

Her left hand is 2, her right hand is 0. Kids these days know how to express things without showing their faces.