Just a quit post to say I’m out of the hospital/not sick anymore and my summer vacation is over… hurrah… Back to work. The good side of this is that I was able to schedule a date to have my tonsils taken out. Finally.

The doctors here were like, “Oh wow. Every month??? That must hurt a lot. Of course you’d want your tonsils out.” Contrast that with the doctors in the US: “Yeah… it’ll go away on its own. Yes, each time. No, there’s nothing you can do about it. No, there’s no need for surgery. At all.”

So despite having some horrible times this week, I’m a bit relieved that I was able to handle the hospital in Japanese on my own while running a 104 fever, as well as (with Hitomi’s very much needed help) schedule a surgery date.

On a further note, I got a phone call yesterday from the headquaters in Nagoya checking up on me. It’s a nice thing I guess — caring about me and all. But it definitely served to underscore the way your job in Japan is like Big Brother. Of course I guess it’s not a perfectly fair assessment considering the kind of job I’m in, and being a foreigner in Japan…

So I had a lot planned to write this past week — the Phoenix Matsuri, the BBQ in the mountains, my trip to Osaka, and the Takefu Bon dance — but the fever cut them short. So I’ll try catching up on them sometime this week.