Caregiving– tag –

For the first time in my life, I could not enter the home I had grown up in. I had finally returned to Japan after two years away. When my mother opened the front door, she looked directly into my eyes and asked: “Who are you?” In that m...

Since being diagnosed with cancer at the age of twenty-five, I have had to rebuild my life more than once. Surviving illness. Starting over in New York. Returning to Japan and facing the realities of caregiving. Looking back, each chapte...