Friday, July 16, 2010

Taka @ hospital...part 2. (w/ Japanese translation)

So...I visited Taka Thur. morning before I went to Richie's funeral.
で・・・木曜日の朝リッチーさんのお葬式の前にたかさんの様子を見に行きました。


Taka was like...
たかさんは・・・








One of those above condition...w/ pain-killer thingy.
痛み止めのせいで、↑こんな状態のどれかだったり・・・。



So...I went to Richie's funeral by myself...and got lost and such.
で・・・私一人でリッチーさんのお葬式に行ったんだけど・・・迷子になってもーた。


Richie took care of Taka & my car, and we couldn't do anything to him...so we are so disappointed.
リッチーさんはたかさんと私の車をいつも面倒見てくれていたんだけど、お返しなんて何もできなかった。心残りです。






Rest in peace, Richie...
リッチーさん、安らかに・・・。




During the funeral, I got text message that saying Taka would have surgery @ 2:30pm. So I went back to the hospital after Richie's funeral.
お葬式の最中に、携帯にたかさんの手術2時半からってメッセが来たから、お葬式終わってから速攻病院に戻ってみた。





Around 2pm...Taka was moved to a "same day operation" waiting room.
2時くらい。。。「同日手術室」と呼ばれる待合室に運ばれた。





Almost 1 hour passed, but still in the waiting room (me & Taka were hungry...at this time).
1時間くらいたってもまだ待合室・・・。(私もたかさんも腹減ったー状態)







Around 4pm, nurse gave him hair cap.
4時ごろ、看護師が手術用お帽子くれた。




So...finally around 4:30pm, Taka was taken to the operation room, and...his doctor came like 5:10pm...
About 2 hours, his doctor came out and talked to me the operation went good and such.

The doctor & nurse were nice enough to let me stay in the recovery room after taka's awake.

で・・・やっと4時半くらいにたかさんは手術室に運ばれていったんだけど、お医者が来たのは5時10分くらい・・・。
2時間位したらお医者が出てきて、手術は成功だった~って教えてくれました。

その後、お医者と看護師さんは麻酔から醒めたばっかのたかさんに面会させてくれました。





He got a real cast...luckily, the cast was up to upper calf.
ギプス足・・・ひざ下までだから動きやすいかも。




O...BTW, his leg was shaved.
あ、そーだ・・・足毛は剃られてた。



Yoshie

Taka @ hospital...part 1. (w/ Japanese translation)

So...@ Monroe hospital, Taka was told to see the doctor ASAP, but we got home on Mon. and we didn't know any doctor/hospital that could treat Taka fast enough.
で・・・モンローの病院では専門医に速攻で見せないとダメって言われたんだけど、帰って来たのは月曜でどこの病院・お医者がすぐ見てくれて、良いところなのかわかんなかったので往生こいたんだよなぁ。



So...this was taken before he went to emergency room.
Fatty foot (left) and normal foot (right).

で・・・上のピクは救急病院に行く前のモノ。
デブ足(左)と普通足(右)




On wed., Taka went to emergency room @ convenience distance around 2:30pm...and there were only 3 people in the waiting room. So I thought it wasn't that bad compare to my expectation (like million people waiting/sitting or sleeping on the floor and so). He was inside like that w/in an hour.
水曜日の2時半ごろに、たかさんは近所の救急病院に行ったんだけど、待合室には3人しかいなくて思ってたより全然早くて1時間待ちくらいで診察してもらえたから良かった♪(どっかのERのドラマぢゃないが、100万人廊下に寝そべってたのを想像してたかも。)



Then, he was noticed he needed to have surgery & stay over @ the hospital after a while.
それで、ちょっとしたら入院&オペが必要って宣告されて。。。





Anywayz, blood was taken...and would be sold on ebay...j/k.
まぁ、それで・・・血が抜かれたわけだが・・・Ebayとかで売られるに違いない。(ウソ)






Taka was craving for coffee so bad that I guess he wanted to have IV w/ coffee...?
たかさん、末期コーヒー中毒らしく点滴の穴からコーヒーを入れたがってるようだ。






Close look...it looks painful (especially, tapes...nurse forgot to shave the hair?)
間近で見ると・・・なかなか痛そう。(腕毛剃ったれよ・・・忘れたんかい・・・看護師。)




So...basically, waiting waiting waiting waiting waiting...for 5-6 hours @ the same place like that and finally he was moved to the room.
で・・・待って待って待って待って待って・・・5~6時間くらい同じ場所で放置プレイ。やっと部屋に移動できたゎ。



After a while, I went home...and tried to sleep, but somehow I couldn't!!
その後、私は家に戻ったんだけど全然寝れなかったーーーー。




To be continued...
続く・・・。





Yoshie

Event Related Report @ Seattle, WA

Usual random pix...on the way to Seattle. On the way back...no time to take pix!







Cow ranch #1...BTW, I am meat lover.






Cow ranch #2...it was stinker than ranch #1.









Smashed bugs in the front window shield...







Yoshie wearing Taka's sunglasses...and Taka said I look like dragonfly...?







Look alike??








Sacramento area...I want to ride.
And I think I posted this pic last year, too. O well.






Hooters! I hope the place has a lot of beautiful girls w/ big advertisement like this...






Ichiro-----!







Seattle somewhere.







Seattle Downtown.






Yoshie in front of the original Starbucks (#1 store)...it was hot day.







Yoshie

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Event Report @ Seattle, WA

So...besides Sat. incident, Taka was doing great.


Taka qualified 6th on the qualify!






So far his best qualified score in 2010! Enjoy.






O...at the spotter station, I saw a weird person (Ryuji Miki) sitting next to me.
Head-set is upside down, so he had a tough time talking...haha






The weird person # 2.






Yoshie

Thank you for cheering up Taka!

So...a lot of people have known already Taka got 2 fractures on Tibia @ top 32 tandem.

And a lot of people were helping & cheering Taka up.

Thank you very much everyone!!




Special Thanks to:

Formula D staff
Evergreen Speedway staff
EMS staff
Hospital Team staff
Teams who were @ event site

And

Team Megan Racing staff!



Taka @ in front of the hospital after the temporary treatment. So sad...







Taka having pain killer shot with drawzzzy-ness on his BUTT!







Temporary cast and wrapped with bandage.





I hope his car and leg get recovered by next event...








And...I will update event report later...






Yoshie

Friday, July 2, 2010

Funeral date for Richey

So...I am not recovered from sadness...but I've got Richey's funeral info today.


It will be held @ 11:00am on July 15th.

Address below:

123 South Hewitt Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Tel 213.624.8658

www.zenshuji.org






Rest in peace, Richey...





Yoshie

Thursday, July 1, 2010

Very Sad News: Richey Watanabe @ Technosquare

So...this is really sad news about our great fabricator, Richey Watanabe @ Technosquare.






Richey Watanabe, the owner of Technosquare and my good boss & friend passed away yesterday from pancreatic cancer.

Words seem inadequate to express the sadness.

Thoughts and prayers go out to his family and friends.






I am so sad.




Yoshie