TheNoNamedOne
01-03-2008, 12:41 AM
"Ude ga Nakutemo, Ikiru yo. Tatta Hitotsu no Inochi Dakara" (I'm Going to Live My Life Even Without an Arm Because It's the Only Life I Have).
It is true. We do just have one life to live to the fullest, and this little girl's message of that and her realization of it in her struggle comes through clearly.
Dying girl's message gives inspiration to others (http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20071231TDY03302.htm)
Atsuko Kobayashi / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writer
Eika Nishio was an exuberant child who never caught a cold. But in March 2005, after being selected as a regular member of her middle school's soft tennis team, she noticed that something was very wrong with her right arm.
"I don't have any strength in my arm, I can hardly pick up a racket," she said.
Thinking she had nothing more serious than aching muscles, Nishio went to a local orthopedic clinic for a checkup. However, a closer examination detected bone cancer, which was developing rapidly, in the first-year student's arm. ...
Given the choice of losing her arm or losing her life, Nishio decided to have her arm amputated. ...
The cancer later spread to her lung. After a brave battle, Nishio died in August at the age of 16. However, her legacy will live on, partly thanks to a message she wrote with her left hand on New Year's greeting cards at the end of 2005. ...
The Oct. 6 Yomiuri Shimbun evening edition carried an article about the project, which gathered more than 300 messages, and organized recitations of them across the country. A book titled "Tatta Hitotsu no Inochi Dakara" containing these messages has been published. ...
Lying on her hospital bed one day, Nishio wrote: "This is the only life I have, so I want to throw away all the painful thorns and sad skin to become an energetic tomato that resembles the sun." ...
One week before she died, Nishio suddenly said she wanted to draw a rainbow.
She drew a huge rainbow that almost spilled over the edges of the page. "A rainbow would answer my prayers," she said.
Nishio died in her sleep on Aug. 15, with the rainbow hanging over her bed. ...
Nishio drew many sketches and wrote poems, including one titled "Live Strongly," which she wrote one month before she died.
It is true. We do just have one life to live to the fullest, and this little girl's message of that and her realization of it in her struggle comes through clearly.
Dying girl's message gives inspiration to others (http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20071231TDY03302.htm)
Atsuko Kobayashi / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writer
Eika Nishio was an exuberant child who never caught a cold. But in March 2005, after being selected as a regular member of her middle school's soft tennis team, she noticed that something was very wrong with her right arm.
"I don't have any strength in my arm, I can hardly pick up a racket," she said.
Thinking she had nothing more serious than aching muscles, Nishio went to a local orthopedic clinic for a checkup. However, a closer examination detected bone cancer, which was developing rapidly, in the first-year student's arm. ...
Given the choice of losing her arm or losing her life, Nishio decided to have her arm amputated. ...
The cancer later spread to her lung. After a brave battle, Nishio died in August at the age of 16. However, her legacy will live on, partly thanks to a message she wrote with her left hand on New Year's greeting cards at the end of 2005. ...
The Oct. 6 Yomiuri Shimbun evening edition carried an article about the project, which gathered more than 300 messages, and organized recitations of them across the country. A book titled "Tatta Hitotsu no Inochi Dakara" containing these messages has been published. ...
Lying on her hospital bed one day, Nishio wrote: "This is the only life I have, so I want to throw away all the painful thorns and sad skin to become an energetic tomato that resembles the sun." ...
One week before she died, Nishio suddenly said she wanted to draw a rainbow.
She drew a huge rainbow that almost spilled over the edges of the page. "A rainbow would answer my prayers," she said.
Nishio died in her sleep on Aug. 15, with the rainbow hanging over her bed. ...
Nishio drew many sketches and wrote poems, including one titled "Live Strongly," which she wrote one month before she died.