October 18th (Tuesday), was the day of Orin’s PET scan and MRI examination. The results of this day will determine the future treatment policy. He/We usually walk for 25 minutes, but this time, Orin drove our “Honta” to the bus stop for New York City. However, about an hour later, I received a phone call telling me that he had got rear-ended accident while turning left on the main street. (It’s too late, if he let me know earlier, I’ll have to report it to the police immediately) The reason for the delay in contacting me was that he had to be on time for the bus, and that he had to send a damage report to the insurance company first while on the bus.
To make a long story short, the other party were 3, a mother who was in a hurry to send her children to school. So Orin let them escape, deciding that if he called the police, he would miss the bus. Yes, surely, this mother did not submit a report to the police.
Anyway Orin has to be checked for whiplash, etc., so I waited for him to come home and asked him go to a nearby general hospital. He went to the ER late at night. No anomalies since then.
On the 19th, we went to the police station in Newburgh and handed over all the evidence and photographs for questioning. Our “Honta” (named like this) has a minimum insurance coverage, so any repair costs are not covered, and since the accident was originally a rear-end collision, we have no choice but to make a claim to the other party’s insurance. How many days will it take.
Orin is still a criticism of the car society. There are as many car deaths in a year as the total number of soldiers who died in the Vietnam War. Or the odds of dying from cancer are lower than car accidents. I don’t like to put statistics on paper. Whether by accident, war, natural death, or disease, the dignity of people and living things goes beyond the numbers/tricks of statistics to convince them.
But of course! It’s true that if I hadn’t had hip replacement surgery, I wouldn’t have had a reason to own a car.
Kazuko Miyamoto’s exhibition at the Japan Society was a great success. At the invitation of the venue, Yoshiko Chuma, a master of dance, gave a performance. I finished editing this video long ago, but now is the time to share it on my blog. Please take a look if you have time. A video link is below, just click a blue words. 41 min. Thank you very much.
The middle of September, M-chan who lives in Tokyo, was visiting in NYC and also came to visit our Newburgh City. When she studied art & computer programing, I was her roommate and we lived few years together in Brooklyn. From that time to now, her great character of having a consistent core and a good listener personality has not changed at all, I was so excited and talked about many things during this spent a time with her.
This is a very recent event. I don’t know how to say it, like a haiku that expresses all kinds of information in a minimum of words, I’ve been wanting to take photos and videos where a single snapshot tells everything.