- Chikusa also has diabetes. -What?
- Chikusa-san! Are you alright? - You are in the way!
Hey! Keep yourself together!
I have inherent type 1 diabetes mellitus.
And can not live without insulin.
- Are you alright? - I can't see...
I can't see.
Chikusa-san? Chikusa-san are you alright?
Chikusa-san...
- It's a vitreous hemorrhage. - Vitreous...
- Let's go! - Alright!
Chikusa-san, are you alright?
- Chikusa. - Chikusa-san...
- Sensei... - It's like a moth flying into the flame.
This might become interesting.
You are so annoying. Sit down!
What~... Did you know it was this severe?
Please explain! What is going on?
It is diabetic retinopathy.
Why... Why did you not tell me about this?
What would telling you do?
If I knew... I would do my best to.
Not let Chigusa-san do extra work...
Nothing good will come from you doing your best.
It is a vitreous hemorrhage caused by diabetic retinopathy.
She couldn't see anything from her right eye so we used laser therapy.
To stop the bleeding. We will see how things will develop and.
- Implant synthetic vitreous. - Um...
Will her eyesight get back to normal?
We have to see how things develop otherwise we won't know if her eyesight will be back to before...
So she will need to be admitted for about 2 weeks, right?
Are you already planning to let a diabetes patient work right away?
To give you some kind advice, even though her eyesight might get back to normal.
I think it would be difficult for a diabetes patient to work as a nurse.
Especially at the Baba clinic where they treat people rough...
I am sorry for my rudeness. Even if one would get back to work at a busy hospital.
The chances are hight that some complications will occur that will become fatal.
I am sorry that I am late to greet you. Please take care of Nagao.
In any case, I can't believe that a great doctor like you, Tsuruta-sensei, would let his own nurse.
Work so much that she almost would loose her eyesight because of diabetic retinopathy.
Nagao put priority on her patients instead of herself. That is all.
At the Baba clinic where just a elect few are working.
You would probably get into trouble if she wouldn't be there anymore.
Please let me know if I can be of any help.
There is no need for that. I am still there.
- Hey! - Yes.
The tweezers. Tweezers!
- Oh... Yes! - It's faster if I get them myself.
No don't...
Oh man! If you need the tweezers.
Then please say that you need them otherwise I won't know!
- Hey listen! - I am not a psychic!
Go on and go buy some lunch.
- What? - I will just say it.
You don't have to help. Don't be in my way!
Here is 20 yen back. Thank you very much.
- Welcome! - Hello.
Um... The usual large stamina lunch box.
And today's special lunch box will do. I will take that one!
- Alright, 1 special and 1 stamina. - Alright!
Huh? Asuka-chan only 2 today?
Yes. Chikusa-san is taking a break.
What? Did something happen?
- Oh well... something came up. - Oh... Tell her to take care.
- Alright. - Oh, Ishikawa-obaachan!
- How is your back doing? - Oh Akemi-chan. the shippu that I got from you.
- Worked very well. - I am glad.
Ishikawa-san, if you are not feeling well please come to our place.
- What? - Ishikawa-obaachan.
You suddenly can't hear anything when things come up that you don't like!
The katsudon is ready!
Alright! Thank you for waiting for the katsudon.
- Thank you. - And the meatballs.
- Thank you. - Huh? What is wrong with you?
- You are sweating so much. - You are right! That is a lot of sweat.
The air conditioning broke this morning, there is someone here now to fix it.
You know, we use fire inside so a ventilator is not enough.
You say all that but isn't it just you going into menopause?
Hey you! Don't say that, I was trying to keep that a secret~!
Akemi-san, this one is pretty old already.
We have a air conditioner that we are not using at our shop, should I bring it here?
It's alright! This place and the people working here.
Are better when they are a bit older, isn't it tencho? (Tencho is the owner of a shop/restaurant)
Let's just put it at that!
In any case Kiritani-kun, can you please do something about it?
Before I become all dried up.
Alright.
Kiritani-kun, here are 2 lunch boxes for you and the shacho, please take them with you. (Shacho is the president of a company.)
Akemi-san, did you think about that thing we talked about?
Huh... What was that again?
I am serious about you...
It is still a small place but I will take over my fathers electronics shop...
Oh~! I need to bring Ishkawa-obaachan home.
Kiritani-kun, I don't know if there is a trend now to like mature women.
But nothing will happen if you keep hitting on a old woman like me!
On the house. Do your best!!
Akemi-san...
Hello, this is the Baba clinic.
- Thank you very much sensei. - Take care of yourself.
It looks like this just because Chikusa is not here for one day.
Sensei! Ishikawa-obaachan has collapsed.
Akemi-san from the Tanaka diner just called.
Ishikawa-san, you haven't been taking your medicine for angina lately, haven't you?
- And you haven't come for a checkup since your husband died last year. - What?
I know that you are pretending to not hear me. I will leave the medicine here.
You will get unwell again if you don't take them.
Thank you very much sensei.
- Are you a relative of Ishikawa-san? - She is Akemi-san from the Tanaka diner.
- We always gratefully use them. - You don't have to say gratefully...
Since the husband of Ishikawa-obaachan passed away.
She hasn't been looking so happy, so as both single women I couldn't just sit there and do nothing.
You are sweating so much. Lately do you have a hard time waking up in the morning.
Or get tired easily, get agitated easily or get out of breath easily?
No not at all.
If you can think of something come to our place.
Then I will come and buy some lunch boxes again.
- How old is Ishikawa-obaachan? - 78.
If we make her live until 90 she will be a regular customer for 12 years of us.
You will come here regularly for a while.
- And make Ishikawa-obaachan get into the habit of taking medicine. - What! There is already enough to do now that Chikusa-san is not here.
- I will die... if I have to do even this. - Then die! It will save me the trouble of getting rid of you.
"That nurse is getting on my nerves because she is so slow"
I got a lot of those complaints already in the morning!
- And I agree! - Alright I will do it!
Oh and keep an close eye on that obachan from the Tanaka diner.
- Akemi-san? - This is a fresh start.
- A fresh start? - "Patients will lie"...
Oh~! The visiting hours at Shirane general hospital are going to pass.
Don't you have to go and visit Chikusa-san?
It won't help anything if you or me would go and visit her in the hospital. It's a waste of time.
Please enter.
Please excuse me.
I am sorry that I am late in coming to greet you. My name is Tenryu Ichiro, the chief of the surgery department.
I heard that I received flowers from you... Thank you very much.
Oh please... Be as you were. Don't mind me.
Thank you. Then I will stay as I was.
So you put a eye mask on just to be save.
You are such a great nurse to be so cautious.
It is just 1 eye but I got tired.
But this was such a disaster for you. Even though you have diabetes.
You were forced into hard labor... That is so unimaginable to me.
It is the same at any small clinic, Tenryu-sensei.
Then what do you think about working at a big hospital.
Even if you are not feeling well it will not be difficult to change your shifts.
Think about it.
- You have such a nice voice. - What?
Your voice. It is a voice that I like.
Thank you.
Can I ask you... to let me touch it?
I am interested in seeing what kind of face belongs to that voice.
You can take a look if you want to.
With the eye that is not operated on.
I want to have something that I will be looking forward to in 2 weeks.
If you wouldn't mind.
I don't mind.
Go ahead.
You become more sensitive when you can't see.
Like hearing, touch and smell...
About the conditions of what I was talking about, I would of course not let you do a night shift.
If I would guess the eau du toilette you use.
By how many times will my salary be increased by?
Well.. how many times should I increase it by?
The eau du toilette that you are using is...
How about increasing it by 3 times?
I have not made any promises yet.
You are such a greedy person.
I would like to find out quickly how the face with such a beautiful voice looks like.
"If I would guess the eau du toilette you use, by how many times will my salary be increased by?"
I didn't expect her to say such a thing towards you.
It is exactly the kind of thing that a cheap prostitute would say that gets easily influenced by money.
What are you planning to do by recruiting such a woman?
The purpose is not to recruit her.
The Baba clinic will definitely not be able to stay in operation if that woman would disappear.
Is that really... all?
What else... would there be?
Obachan you are sweating so much like before.
You don't have to worry about others.
Even though the air conditioning is fixed, doesn't that mean that you have some strange disease.
- Isn't it menopause after all... - Isn't it.
What is that! What is that about a strange disease!
Why are you so upset. We were just teasing.
- Shut up! Get out of here! - What is this!
- Please stop this Akemi-san! - Get out of here!
- Please stop it. - What is wrong with this hysteric woman.
- I will never come to this place again! - Shut up!!
Get out of here!
What is wrong Akemi-san? You are not acting like yourself.
I am not acting like myself? What do you know about me!
- Please calm down Akemi-san. - What do you know about me!!
The police... The police!
Please hold on, this hysteria is not normal. It could be some panic reaction.
Or it could be neurodystonia.
Are you saying that I am having a panic attack! Don't treat people like a sick person!
Are you alright? Akemi-san please breath slowly, breath slowly.
- Are you alright? In any case, bring her to our clinic. - Alright.
She should be stable for a while now.
It would be better to contact her family.
She apparently hasn't contacted them for a while. She said that she came to this town by herself when she was 18.
What are you to that woman?
I am... a friend.
- So a friend huh... - Is Akemi-san in that bad of a shape?
There is some swelling on her neck. I can't make a diagnosis until we get the blood test results.
- But it is most likely... - Graves' disease.
Akemi-san.
It is a disease that I contracted when I was 18... This means that it recurred again, right?
I don't want to be treated for a panic attack because of this useless nurse.
- Graves' disease? - Because of an over production of thyroid hormones.
- It causes heart throbbing, getting out of breath and perspiration. - Perspiration...
And apart from that there are symptoms of over excitement, annoyance and hostility.
Even health care professionals would mistake this for a panic attack or neurodystonia.
I completely thought that...
If you have already experienced it once then you should treat it patiently.
As long as no complications happen it is not a illness that will cause death.
You were surprised, weren't you? I also didn't know what it was exactly.
There is nothing that you could do about it. It is not your fault.
After seeing that you must feel completely different about me.
Could it be that the reason that you left your family and came to this town by yourself is that illness...
Thank you for bringing me home.
No, no, no...
I don't mind you having that illness!
My feelings will not change!
The operation to replace the synthetic vitreous is planned for tomorrow afternoon.
Thank you very much.
In any case it has been several days that you have been admitted to the hospital.
Starting with Tsuruta-sensei, nobody from the Baba clinic has come to see you here.
They are busy because it is a small clinic.
Is that what it is. Here you are, having sacrificed yourself.
For their sake, they are so cold.
Have you thought about the flexible shifts, no night shifts and 3 times your current salary thing?
Yes, thank you very much.
I am really starting to think different about Chikusa-san.
She was willing to work as a nurse until the point that she lost vision in her eyes.
Even Tenry-sensei is trying to recruit her.
She would get a flexible shift and no night shifts considering her physical condition and 3 times her current salary.
If you hear those conditions then this is much better, isn't it?
In that case I would like to be the one to take that offer.
In that case... Please go and convince Chikusa-san right now!
- Why? - Why? You ask...
Didn't you dislike Chikusa in the first place?
- Isn't it a good thing for you if she would not be here anymore. - Well that is...
Were you not the one that said that you were going to manage this Baba clinic.
Why are you desperately trying to stop Chikusa.
It is because of you Jumbo-sensei. It is all your fault.
My fault? What is that.
It is because you do not teach me anything!
I am unable to do the things like Chikusa-san does.
- It is so mean of you! - What!?
If you would teach me properly, I would have.
Been able to manage this Baba clinic by now!
What are your thought about raising nurses?
Don't get mad at me like that. You are so loud and I can't use you.
Just go somewhere. Go to Ishikawa-obaachan for a business trip.
What is with that confidence that he has?
It will not be my fault if Chikusa-san would get recruited.
Excuse me.
Ishikawa-san? Are you not there?
Excuse me...
Obaachan!
Are you alright obaachan? I will get the sensei right away.
Don't...
- That won't be good... - Even if I live...
Please let me go to ojichan like this...
Obaachan!
Hello, Ishikawa-obaachan has collapsed.
Come right away! Please come right away!!
What are you doing! Do you call yourself a nurse!?
You are a grandma with no perseverance. You don't have to pass away by yourself.
Your ojichan will come and get you soon enough.
Until that time comes, take your medicine and wait.
- I will use the nitroglycerin spray, open her mouth. - Alright.
Here I go!
Don't act like you can't hear anymore.
Obaachan, I will come here everyday bringing you a lunch box.
- I will come here day after day to bring them. - Akemi-chan.
I don't want this obaachan, you are not alone, I am here with you.
I am sorry... Please forgive me Akemi-chan.
What about you take a break for a short while?
Well I am worried for you if something like the other day would happen again.
And to be honest we got quite some complaints from customers.
I am sorry for causing you this trouble.
- How long do you mean with "a short while"? - Kiritani-kun...
How long do you mean with taking a break for "a short while"?
Well that is... Until the dust settles down.
Until the dust settles down...
I also don't know how long that will be.
Akemi-san, you worked here from the age of 18 haven't you?
- And you fire her for just a single incident. - What do you want. You have nothing to do with this!
I beg you! Please don't let Akemi-san stop working here!
Hey, putting up a show like that will not...
- This is just more troublesome for me! - Kiritani-kun...
I am sorry. This is the only way that I could think of. I beg you!
- That is not what it is. - It is alright already, Kiritani-kun.
- Akemi-san has a illness. - A illness?
Hey... what are you saying. Please don't mind what he is saying tencho.
I will take responsibility in curing Akemi-san's illness.
So please! I beg you!
Oh man...
- Hey... what are you doing! Let go of me! - We have to go to the Baba clinic.
You were told that today the results will come in, right?
I promised the tencho that I will cure the illness.
- Hey! I told you that you have nothing to do with this! - Is it alright that you will get fired!
I love seeing you work at this place.
- You like working here, don't you? - Kiritani-kun...
Let's go to the Baba clinic together.
Looking at the antibody value this is Graves' disease after all.
I will give you some medicine. Until the values become stable.
You should adjust your shifts for a while.
I don't need any medicine.
You know very well that you will have to live with your illness.
If your strain yourself you, complications will occur and you won't be able to get healed anymore.
It is my life. Even though you are a doctor.
I don't recall you having the right to command me anything!
What is the matter Akemi-san?
You came at the right time. Come in.
Akemi-san...
Looking at the facts that you came here together with her.
You must be in love with her, right?
- Don't be so stupid! - I am asking him.
Are you in love with her? Or are you not in love with her?
I like Akemi-san. I... am even thinking about marriage.
Marriage!? You?
- Why do you laugh with saying "you?". - Hey! That is an insult. I am sorry.
Don't do it. Don't do it. Especially with an old lady that has a illness like her.
There are younger ones. Girls that are younger, healthier and have bigger breasts.
That is none of your business.
Well yeah, the big breasts part is just my own taste.
But is it alright to be with such a hysteric and aggressive woman?
There is nothing to do about that because of her illness. Do you really call yourself a doctor like that!
There is nothing to about it because of the illness? You are underestimating the illness!
If you get married and she would get pregnant while her thyroid hormone levels are high.
There is a possibility that she would get a miscarriage in the early stages. If she doesn't get treatment.
There are risks attached with giving birth.
Having is a mother and a child. If she doesn't have any intentions of getting treatment.
You will not be able to get such a simple thing in life.
- It's alright already... I am fed up with it. - Akemi-san...
What is this thing about marriage and children. You must be kidding me!
I have no intentions of getting married to this person!
I don't need this medicine!!
Akemi-san! Please wait Akemi-san!
It is exactly like that doctor said.
So please leave me alone already!
- Are you alright? Are you hurt? - You have nothing to do with this!
- It's bleeding. - Leave me alone!
- Kiritani-san, I will take it from here... - But...
Please.
- Here you go. - Thank you.
And... here.
Please take them.
That time when Ishikawa-obaachan collapsed.
You thought for a split second that you would let her die, didn't you?
There is nothing good... from me staying alive.
My life is still much longer than that of obaachan.
- I don't know what to do with myself. - Akemi-san...
It is better to not get involved with me.
- I will go then. - Kiritani-san...
I believe that he really loves you.
Kiritani-san is such a nice person.
- It is not good if he is a nice person. - What?
It's nothing. See you.
I am sorry... I will not leave you alone.
I will not be the only person to become happy.
"It is not good if he is a nice person..." That is what she said.
Why is it not good if he is a nice person.
You are finished as a nurse if you can't even figure that out.
Oh but you haven't even started being a woman yet either.
- Why is that? Why is that? Please explain that to me. - I won't.
You are so cold Chikusa-san. Jumbo-sensei too.
Why am not blessed with the people around me.
Hey! Are those the things you say to someone.
Who just came out of surgery and is listening to someone that can't not even get the main point out of a story?
I am sorry. By the way, why didn't you tell me?
About the diabetes... If you would have told me...
What would come from telling you?
What?
Oh... Jumbo-sensei told me the same thing.
Anybody would say that.
I know. I am still.
Unable to be a replacement to you.
- This is so tiresome. Did you figure that out just now? - Don't misunderstand me. I said "still".
- I am still much younger than you. - Did you come here to pick a fight with me?
No! Not at all! From now on.
I will try my absolute best to not let you be strained at work.
- So ask me anything. - You creep me out.
Well that is because... You are being recruited by Shirane general hospital, right?
If you are not there anymore... I will be there alone with Jumbo-sensei...
What am I supposed to do?
You keep saying "I", "I". Start thinking by yourself.
That is why you keep being called a rookie.
Think of it yourself and make a decision. Once you make a decision you don't regret it.
Even if... Your eyes will loose it's vision from now on.
Patients will die when you are hesitating.
- Thank you for the food~ - Thank you very much~
- Tencho, hello! - Welcome.
- Where is Akemi-san? - Akemi-chan came here yesterday and quit.
- She quit!? - I tried to stop her. Also becuase the son of the electronics shop.
Said that he would take responsibility. But Akemi-chan.
- Said that she couldn't put this place into any more trouble. - Is that so...
I feel sorry for her but Akemi-chan has a illness, right?
She has no relatives so what will she do now that she quit this place?
Could it be...!
Akemi-san!
Akemi-san, please open the door if you are there.
Kiritani-san!
- You are from the Baba clinic. - What is the matter?
I just got a phone call from Akemi-san and she asked if I can bring lunch boxes to Ishikawa-obaachan every day from now on.
Then she just hung up the phone.
Akemi-san!
- Akemi-san! Please open the door. - Akemi-san! Please open the door.
Akemi-san!
- Akemi-san! - Akemi-san!
Shut up!
- Akemi-san! - Go away! Leave me alone.
- Akemi-san! Please open the door. - Please open the door Akemi-san.
Akemi-san, please.
Go away!
Go away! Go away! Go away!
- Akemi-san!? - Akemi-san, Akemi-san. Are you alright?
I told you to go away!
I... I will not go away! I will wait until you open the door...
The sun will go down if we wait for that.
Jumbo-sensei.
Oh man you are wasting the medicine that I gave you.
- This is a divine punishment. - A divine punishment?
Get out of here. Don't come into other people's rooms without permission!
- Akemi-san. - You too! Leave me alone!
I can feel this deep-seated grudge.
Huh?
- What is this? - That...!
- This must be it!? I found the source of the deep-seated grudge! - What are you doing!
Because you persistently have such a thing with you for years.
You have this deep-seated grudge. It is in the way for your treatment, I am throwing it away.
- Please don't! - Give it back!
Don't act like you are the good person!
Because you are treasuring such a thing.
- You are not being cured from you illness. - I don't need to be cured!
I don't want to be a trouble to anybody else anymore.
- Akemi-san. - I let that child...
I let the child of the man, that I sacrificed the ties to my own parent with, die...!
Just like I thought.
I thought that it would be something like that.
I didn't know about my illness.
Shortly after I got a miscarriage he left me.
I would not let you be alone.
Don't just say those kind of things!
I decided that I would not love anybody anymore.
That is the only thing that I can do for the child that died to expiate.
Did you hear that. Do you understand what it meant to be together with her?
The illness recurred. Even if she would get pregnant in the future.
She would be haunted by the traumas from her past.
If you are just loosing your head for her.
Then that will just be in the way from her treatment and also herself!
Go away somewhere now!
Why do I have to be told such a thing by you!
- I... I also! - Stop it!
And you too! What are you talking about expiation.
You are just being scared.
For the illness and for him!
Shut up! Nothing good will come from being together with me!
I wasn't even able to give birth to even 1 child of the person I loved.
I am even unable to give birth to your child...
I will make you give birth to as many children as you want from now on!
As long as you get treatment.
You couldn't forget the miscarriage and you didn't want to be a woman anymore.
Everyday you bring a lunch box to old people.
This guy fell in love with you because you are that kind of woman.
Akemi-san... I also. I also thought about it in my own way.
I thought about it... I thought about it and that is why I am here now.
That is right Akemi-san. And you also made a promise with Ishikawa-obaachan.
That you will bring her a lunch box everyday.
You said that she wasn't alone, that she had you.
That was not a lie, right?
Don't think that your life only belongs to you!
Your life also belongs to people like the obaachan that wants life together with you and to this guy.
Let's go.
Yes.
Are you alright?
I am alright.
Jumbo-sensei, today is the day that Chikusa-san gets discharged from the hospital.
Don't you have to go and pick her up?
Being discharged means that there is nothing wrong with her.
She would tell me if she needs to be picked up.
It's not like she is a rookie.
You say that... Is it alright.
That Chikusa-san gets recruited.
Alright I get it! I will go by myself.
How is it?
- It is alright. - Chikusa-san!
What is with that facial expression of yours.
Nagao-san, I came here for an answer.
I can finally see you now.
You promised that you would give me an answer when you saw me.
I am expecting a good answer from you.
You are right. This is a good opportunity.
- Chikusa-san... - That is a very smart choice.
But... I won't do it.
Why is that? These are very good conditions for you.
Or are you planning to stop being a nurse?
No. I have no intentions on quit being a nurse.
This is stupid. Going back to the Baba clinic is like a suicide attempt for you.
This is for your own good. Tell me if there are more conditions that you want.
Would you like to have 4 times your current pay... 5 times?
Jumbo.
Jumbo is not here.
I have a lot of respect for you.
- You rejected a offer for 5 times your current salary. - That is because Tenryu-sensei's face was different from what I imagined.
What? Then what if his face was what you imagined?
Of course I would choose Shirane. But that face I don't like.
What~ Is that the reason?
His face was round, blurry and didn't fit at all.
- I don't know what to think of that face. - What? What?
Huh? Are my eyes still not healed?
I have a feeling that there is something different.
In order for Chikusa to not be blinded by the light after the surgery.
I shut out the light. You can be grateful towards me.
Jumbo... May I say one thing?
Doesn't it look pretty nice?
This is lame!
What did you two just say!
What is with this color? And this pattern is disgusting. I can't believe this.
Where do they sell this? Are you trying to make her feel bad?
What a stupid woman for rejecting your offer.
I would like you to say that now I don't have to pay so much in personnel expenses.
Could Jumbo be that interesting of a guy?
I don't mind you getting close to that guy. You are free to do as you want.
Go ahead if you would like to destroy your career to find out what is ideal to that guy.
Tenryu-sensei, that is not what I meant...
So Jumbo-sensei and a woman that doesn't get influenced by money...
Where is the important university professor?
I am a part-time lecturer.
A part-time lecturer?
Hey! Someone fell.
- Ishino-kun? - Do you know him?
It is better if someone like me would die.
I know what you did 1 year ago.
They just decided that it is a unknown mental disease or me just being lazy.
Think of things that you can remember, I don't care what it is.
There must be a hint somewhere.
Jumbo doesn't do things that are unnecessary.
But he acts right away if it is necessary.
People that are suffering from a illness are persevering and doing they best.
We are not not allowed to show signs of weakness.