Big noisy Diesel trucks disappeared from Tokyo Metropolitan streets and the usual year-end- and new- year- quietness has come. Although number of cars on streets decreased, parking lots for super markets were full throughout the day. Many customers crowded to get foods for long holidays. I did not use my car as a transportation but took subway and JR trains to a department store's food floor, anticipating crowded parking lots. Of course the food floor was flooded with people, but other floors were rather empty.
Yesterday I went to M hospital after weeks to have an eye examination. These days it has become more comfortable not to wear glasses when stepping down stairs. Doctor T told me my corrected eye sight of right eye had recovered to 0.8 (left eye's sight is 1.2) and said it might cause troubles about my glasses. After the hospital, I went to a glass store in Ginza and consulted with them. They suggested me that glasses which were newly made to use for playing golf bout a month after operation should be used for my daily life such as driving, walking and sometimes for golf. When I read books, I will use old glasses for nearsightedness. I have to bring around two sets of glasses but through today it works well.
This afternoon, a male cousin visited me after three years. He is six years younger than me. He looked healthy, but a bit aged. He said he had a prostate carcinoma. He has been receiving hormone therapy just like me for the past three years. He suffered cerebral infarction a few years ago and his right hand became immovable. But nowadays he can write and drive well after continued rehabilitation exercises. It is really a surprise to me that there are so many patients of prostate carcinoma around me. The other day, some one told me that 92 percent of aged male Japanese over seventy years would become prostate carcinoma. What he said might not be nonsensical.
On December 27, I was given the second injection of Zoradex Depot at S hospital. Doctor S told me the injection brought me the restrain effects against cancer already. After the consulting with him, he arranged me a blood test and a urine examination on the same day. He said he would be able to tell me how the medicine had good effects on me on January 9, 2001.