Sick-call

On september 13 Saturday and 14 Sunday I went to visit my mother in the hospital. She has been in mental hospital since August 20 for her depression.
Before then she was in another hospital for internal diseases because she felt something wrong. I went to pay sick-call last month. At the hospital she couldn't get well rather she had become worse.
The hospital is brand-new and the lobby looks like a hotel.The callers are also allowed to eat and drink there. If the patients wish, they can eat with callers. I wish my mother take a walk around the lobby or the court. But now she withdraws into herself. I can only tell her that she has been working enough and it is time to rest. She seems to blame herself being unable to do anything. I hope the medicine will be effective against depression.
It takes over four hour's drive from my house to the hospital. My brother lives near the hospital with his family. So he and his wife take care of her. He had got the permission to hospitalize our mother from the city office. I owe them for thier caring.

9月13日土曜と14日日曜　母のお見舞いに行きました。母は8月20日からうつ病で精神病院に入院しています。
　その前は体調が悪いといって別の内科の病院に入院していました。先月、お見舞いにいきました。そこの病院ではよくならずむしろ悪くなりました。
　病院は新築でロビーはホテルみたいでした。見舞い客もそこで食べたり飲んだりできます。患者もそうしたければ見舞い客と食事ができます。母もロビーや中庭を散歩してほしいです。でも。今は自分の中に閉じこもっています。私ができるのはただ、いままで十分働いたんだから今は休むときだよ、と言うことだけです。母は自分が何もできないと自分を責めているようです。薬がうつ病に効いてくれることを願います。
　うちから病院まで車で4時間以上かかります。兄は病院の近くに家族で住んでいます。それで兄と兄のお嫁さんが母の世話をしています。兄は市役所から母を入院させる許可をもらいました。お世話をかけます。

Sep. 15 2008