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Inaba meeting chairman Talk from Hiroyoshi Yoshida

fighting with "asthma -- getting over -- " ... being alive -- I appreciate -- the care of a patient meeting, and medical chi kung -- as a teacher -- a volunteer activity
(It rises in the first - 7 talk and order.)

The first talk Introduction

The asthmatic meeting "a Inaba meeting" was established in Heisei 7, and the Sueko Ikegami founder chairman still lingered, and I inherited it, and it was inaugurated as the second generation chairman of the Heisei 13 old persons.
It will retire in Heisei 12 and has been the 4th year. I have fought with the illness of bronchial asthma for [ of the former ] 30 years. There is as the number of times of hospitalization cannot be grasped personally, and hospitalization days become total four - five years. [ much ] Every day is painful, and since especially night was stifling, became width and was not able to sleep, it almost sat down and it was absent from it every day. In order to stop an asthma attack, intravenous drip was also carried out 2 to 3 times per week. While such situations continue for 25 years, committing work has been kept on by emotional strength. When the weight of this stifling breast could be taken and breast full air could be inhaled toward a fine sky which will probably be good however, I thought that it would be fortunate however.
Five years before it retired, it met with Mr. Naoki Kikumoto of the Tottori co-op hospital said to the asthmatic medical treatment of Tottori Prefecture as the authority, and new inhalation medical treatment, condition became light, and it changed completely in the good direction. Although it could not be said as Kanji, it came to be able to perform the life somehow near an ordinary person now, and the life also changed a lot brightly.

The second talk It is to relief of a patient as a representative of the asthmatic meeting of Tottori Prefecture.

It considered then that you could not slip out of the painful life for 25 years, and he could not become fortunate. Asthma will be the controllable illness on which it can live like an ordinary person, if the medical treatment which consulted the special doctor and suited the man, and the right knowledge are learned. However, there is not little direction which the new medical treatment about asthma and the right information are not acquired, but worries alone among an asthmatic or its family for many years. It considered that the world had many people currently troubled by asthma still more, and decided to put the thought into action. In order to make the place which holds out a hand to those who are troubled by asthma, helps each other and encourages to them, and suits them, the asthmatic meeting "a Inaba meeting" was made from the friend who makes mind the same, and activity was started by a small number of people. It is doing its best in order to hold out a hand to an asthmatic about 18,000 within the prefecture as a Tottori representation organization of a patient meeting and a Japanese asthmatic meeting liaison committee which it develops and represents Tottori Prefecture now, also obtaining support of Tottori Prefecture. (The regular member of a "Inaba meeting" is about 150 persons)