(ENG)
Today is my annual visit to the breast surgeon. What they do is a mammogram, ultrasound echo, and a consultation, so it is almost like a breast cancer screening, but I was hospitalized and operated for breast cancer in 2010, so I am still told to come every other year.
This morning I was told to come at 9:30am, so I left my house at 8:30am just in case. I took a bus and a subway and got off at Kitayama station, and after a five-minute walk, I arrived at the breast surgery center. The photo below shows the platform of Imadegawa subway station. Subway platforms always have a unique atmosphere that is different from that of the ground level. I changed to the subway here.
When you get off at Kitayama Station, you will see that Kitayama-dori used to be a street lined with fashionable stores, although it is now deserted and under construction here and there. It was around 1980's to 90's, the time of the bubble economy. Boutiques were especially fashionable, but I liked imported goods and stationery stores. The photo below shows INOBUN Kitayama, a four-floor store specializing in household goods. It may have been established later than the bubble economy, but it has been in business for a long time. By the way, the main store in Shijo-Kawaramachi was founded in the Edo period.
After arriving at the breast surgery clinic and going through the reception desk, I first had to change into my examination clothes. This took quite a while. This was because it was winter and I was very overdressed. Since I was not allowed to wear anything on my upper body except for the examination clothes, it took a lot of time and effort to take off my clothes. Nevertheless, I managed to get dressed and my number (patients are called by their reception number at this breast surgery center) was called, so I first had a mammogram.
Mammograms are painful, but even so, I think I have become somewhat tolerant of them over the years of doing them. On this day, I had to have one more shot taken, but I managed to endure it.
Next was the ultrasound. The time required for the ultrasound seems to be getting shorter and shorter. They apply a gel-like substance to the body and wipe it off after the examination, but I think the time for wiping off the gel was longer than the examination itself.
Then, while I was watching the peaceful scenery on the TV in the waiting room, I was called in for a checkup. The results were normal. The result was that there was no abnormality, and I was told, “Please come back in a year. I think that today's examination and consultation were the fastest since the once-a-year schedule was introduced.
After paying the bill, I boarded the subway again and changed to a bus at Imadegawa Station to return to the nearest bus stop. I was feeling relaxed after the event, so I took a picture of the temple building and the coin-operated parking lot in front of it. I thought it was a typical scene in the center of Kyoto.
And on the way to my house, there was a cute monkey doll and two sturdy frog dolls in the eaves of the house, so I took a picture of them as well.
When I got home after shopping, I had exceeded 5,000 steps for the first time in a long time, and I thought, “I did it!" I thought.
(JPN)
今日は年に一度の乳腺外科の通院日です。やることはマンモグラフィーと超音波エコーと診察なので、ほとんど乳がん検診みたいなものなのですが、私は2010年に乳がんになって入院・手術をしているので、今でも1年おきに来なさい、と言われています。
今朝は9時30分に来るようにと言われていたので、念のため自宅を8時30分に出ました。そしてバスと地下鉄を乗り継いで北山駅で降り、そこから5分歩くと乳腺外科につきました。下の写真は地下鉄今出川駅のホームです。地下鉄のホームというのはいつも地上とは違った独特な雰囲気を感じます。ここで地下鉄に乗り換えました。
北山駅で降りると、今はあちこち寂れていたり工事をしていたりしますが、その昔は北山通りと言えばおしゃれな店が並ぶ通りだったのです。だいたい1980～90年代、バブルの頃ですね。特にブティックなどがおしゃれでしたが、私は輸入雑貨とか文房具とかの店が好きでした。下の写真はINOBUN北山店です。4フロアある生活雑貨専門店です。バブルよりは後にできたかもしれませんが、長く営業しています。ちなみに四条河原町にある本店は江戸時代創業だそうです。
乳腺外科に着いて受付を済ませると、まず検査着に着替えなくてはなりません。これが結構時間がかかりました。冬で着ぶくれしているからです。上半身は検査着以外は何も着てはいけないので、もう服を脱ぐのが手間がかかって仕方がありませんでした。それでもなんとか着替えると番号（この乳腺外科は患者さんを受付番号で呼びます）が呼ばれたので、まずはマンモグラフィーの検査を受けました。
マンモグラフィーは痛くてたまらないのですが、それでも何年もやっているうちになんとなく耐えられるようになったような気がします。この日は１枚撮り直しがありましたがなんとか耐えました。
次は超音波エコーです。だんだん所要時間が短くなっているような気がします。身体にジェルみたいなものを塗って検査して、終わったら拭き取るのですが、検査より拭き取る時間の方が長かったかもしれません。
そして、待合室のテレビに映る穏やかな風景を見ているうちに診察に呼ばれました。結果は異常なしでした。「また１年後に来てくださいね」と言われて終わりでした。今日の検査と診察なんて、１年に１回になって以降最速で終わったのではないかと思います。
会計を済ませて再び地下鉄に乗り込み、今出川駅でバスに乗り換えて最寄りのバス停まで帰りました。無事に終わって気分にゆとりがあったので、お寺の建物とその手前のコインパーキングの写真を撮りました。なんか京都の中心部らしい光景だなと思ったのです。
そして自宅に着くまでの家の軒先には可愛らしい猿の人形とどっしり構えた蛙の人形２匹がいたのでこれも写真におさめました。
買い物して家に帰ったら久しぶりに5000歩を超えて、やったー！と思いました。
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