My daughter complained of a bellyache in the morning. She mentioned she wondered if it was cystitis. But I doubted. Anyway, since she was very tired because she had had examinations last and this week and she had passed out twice in school this summer, we decided to call her high school and I told her homeroom teacher she would go to a general hospital for a medical examination. She is in a final grade of high school and preparing for the examination to enter the university. Recently, she gets a little nervous.


In the waiting room of the hospital, we were talking a lot. About her chocolate addiction, diabetes, our hypo tension from heredity, rumors about her friends and teachers at her school, and why most of doctors are short and not cool. I mentioned the surgeon who removed my husband's gallbladder last year was actually tall and handsome, but all the while he explained after the operation, he was toying my husband's gallbladder. Pleasantly extending my husband's gallbladder, he showed me a gallstone embedded deeply in the swollen wall. I thanked him, but "Oh, what a medical geek", I thought.


Next, we had a quiz. The classical Japanese's words quiz. Most of Japanese can't read and write classical Japanese without a dictionary and grammar knowledge. It's like a foreign language because it's the one of a thousand years ago. I think it is unbelievable for English-speaker that the subject words are missing on purpose. Especially, in the case emperor and royal family are the subject, the authors couldn't write the subject words as showing respect. Instead of using the subject nouns, they used transformed verbs. Of course it's difficult to read even for Japanese.

The classical Japanese is the subject she needs. But the one to answer was me! My daughter gave me questions, and I answered. Considering my college major, I was supposed to be able to answer any words. But ohhhh, twenty years passed by since I graduated. She enjoyed very much.


She had a blood test and urinalysis. The doctor asked us whether we want to have a brain wave test. But we passed up. After all, her good health is made out. And going home, we talked again about cool doctors hardly exist in the world. We are stupid.