[Exclusive]Takemi continues...and a personal crisis. 武见妙续，以及个人的健康小危机

Hi everyone

First of all I'm sorry for this month's poor progress. I got only 3 pages drawn because of a health issue -- gallbladder inflammation. At the beginning of this month, my family and I took a happy 5-day vacation to Hokkaido and had a lot of delicious, oily, rich food and drinks, which triggered quite severe gallbladder inflammation for the first time in my life. It's a known problem in my mother's family (almost every uncle and aunt all has it, but no one had it this young). Well, anyway, it hurts pretty bad and continuously causes stomach and back aches for several days.

大家好，

首先我要对本月的作品表示深刻的歉意。我本月只画了三页，因为身体发生了一点问题：胆囊炎。这个月初，由于机票很便宜，我跟家里人去了一趟北海道，享受了众多肥美鲜甜过于营养的美食，结果中途就发生了惨剧——因为吃得太油腻触发了人生中第一次的胆囊炎。这个毛病是我家里亲戚普遍存在的问题，但是不知道是因为真的吃得太油还是因为我抽烟，我的胆囊炎搞得非常严重，在北海道的时候就腹痛腹泻了起来

It was getting better after fasting at the end of the vacation. At first I was going to get exammed after this month, but the situation escalated after I accidentally used a Jinsen elixir to help focus on my job. Jinsen has a medical component that causes the gallbladder muscle to spasm. On the day of 12th, I had such a long and severe pain in the late night, from 2am to 7am, didn't sleep for a whole night. I had to instantly visit a clinic, and the exam showed that I had multiple medium-sized gallstones and few tiny kidney stones not yet caused trouble. To prevent it from worsening and affecting the gland, surgical removal of the gallbladder is recommended to me and I had to accept it.

假期最后两天我通过严格节食控制了一下，本来好一点了，因为工作挺忙的，打算能忍到7月去做检查和处理，结果回来上班的第一天，因为有点累，喝了一个含有红参成分的精力剂，结果造成了又一次发作。根据医生的建议，红参的成分会刺激副交感神经，导致胆囊肌肉痉挛。总之有一阵子痛得在公司地板上蜷了10分钟，然后好了一些，吃了晚饭，半夜两点又开始痛醒，一直持续到早上——总之这下立马就去了诊所接受超声检查。检查结果果不其然是胆结石，而且体积较大，数量也不少。甚至还查到有一些小小的肾结石。唉，总之为了防止持续的炎症影响其他器官，最重要的是怕发展成胰腺炎，医生立刻就建议我手术把胆囊割了算了。

The medical system in Japan is almost all appointment required, such a tiny issue of gallstone does not qualify to get emergency treatment, so even now that I have to get a surgery, the hospitals won't take me until mid-July and have to further examine me. Guess this is just the tiniest health issue. So at this moment, I had to rely on some muscle relaxing medicines to ease my gallbladder, make it stop squeezing itself and the stones within. Side effects include dullness, a running stomach, and bladder control (not as you thought lol, instead of peeing myself, this medicine makes it difficult to squeeze and pee). For 3 weeks, I had constant abdominal and back pain, running stomach cuz I can't absorb fat and protein properly now. I had very thin food, feels hungry often but can't just grab something to eat at any moment like before. I was truly exhausted in the past few weeks, so I had to stop working for a while to get more rest.

嘛，割掉就割掉吧，我家里有几个人也都割了。但是日本的医疗体系基本全是预约制的，胆囊炎胆结石这种小病，实在不到去抢占急救资源的程度。总之我现在就拿了药，然后预约到了7月中旬做微创手术。然后这个药主要是在胆囊收缩压迫结石疼痛发作时松弛肌肉，副作用则是困，眼花，排尿困难（笑）。啊总之我突然感觉就像个70岁的老人一样了，每天累的要死，好处则是每天都可以早退了哈哈。唉但总而言之，6月真的挺难熬的，持续的上腹部痛，背痛，然后下意识的肌肉用力又导致另一种背上的酸痛，三天两头腹泻，偶尔想吐，另外还有为了控制饮食，这个月几乎都在吃很清淡的食物，感觉人都瘦了……以前从来没有这么感觉到累过。没办法，这个月为了增加休息的时间，只能把画画先耽搁一下了。

If there's a moral of the story, it's that health is very important to everyone. You won't notice it until you lose it. The main reason is probably that I rarely eat breakfast, and usually drink only coffee and tea instead of water, and I sit too long every day. If you don't eat breakfast, your bile won't be emptied from the gallbladder in the morning, and it stays and concentrates and eventually turns into stone. Drinking coffee and tea can push an already existing stone into the narrow neck or bile duct, so it makes the risk of inflammation higher, and it might be why I get the kidney stone. Make a healthier life, listen to the health specialists and doctors, eat balanced and drink water, and do some sports.

如果说这个故事有什么教训，那就是年轻人也一定要注意身体健康。胆结石的主要成因之一，就是像我一样不吃早饭，久坐，又喝水少。如果你不吃早饭，你每天夜里累积的胆汁就没法在早上自然排出来帮助消化，然后就淤积在胆囊里，渐渐沉淀成结石。喝水少，或者只喝咖啡和茶，就会让胆汁变浓，也更增加各种结石的几率。眼下等着看，胆结石不是什么大问题，希望之后肾结石不要又来搞一次就是了。不要觉得自己年轻身体还好就无所谓，坏的生活习惯日常虽然感觉不到，等它造成问题的时候就真的很不舒服了。抽烟的朋友们少抽点，喝酒的也少喝点，每日运动运动，定期体检一下，多听医生喝和健康专家的话。

I'm sorry that my poor health management causes this trouble to you all, but despite the long piece I wrote, it's just a minor issue. I will get a microscope surgery and rest for 3 days in about 2 weeks. The medicine I'm taking is relieving the pain effectively, and I don't have to take it if there are no symptoms, so at this moment, I can go back to work and back to drawing. hmmm...for the Takemi story, there's really maybe about 3-4 more pages to go. My next story is Kawakami's (final) day of maid work, after that it will be Hifumi Togo's piece. And maybe I will shift to P4 after this since P4R is announced. I think it will be great.

由于本人健康管理不周导致的本月画图搁浅，我真的是十分抱歉。我眼下的状况已经比三周之前好了很多，已经一个多星期没有痛过了。等到微创手术做了，应该就暂时不会有任何问题了。 本次的武见妙篇幅大约还有3-4页，接下来的篇章是川上老师的女仆打工故事，之后画东乡一二三……然后我应该可能会去画P4吧，毕竟P4R都已经宣布了。

I hope this story serves as a cautionary tale. Please take care of yourself. Again, please forgive me for causing you inconvenience and sorry for the delay in the work.

希望这次的意外能有那么一点提醒大家的作用吧——请各位照顾好自己的身体，保持健康才能更多地享受各种乐趣。最后，再一次向大家道歉，给大家添乱了。

I'll see you soon

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