| After receiving about two months of treatment,
I was released from the hospital at the end
of September. Because there were so many
that needed to be treated, even those who
were still very sick were released as soon
as they could walk. I was a discharged soldier
who looked like a snowman, wrapped head to
toe in bandages with only my eyes exposed.
I was given the job to take a patient with
a broken thigh bone and other wounded people.
The people carrying the stretchers of patients
were all wounded themselves. Everyone was
extremely exhausted. We rubbed medicine on
each other, wrapped each other's bandages
and one by one took each person home. By
the time I arrived in Iwate, after three
days, my wounds were beginning to fester
and I was in a lot of pain. |
