There is an English translation as below, this blog refers to my way of thinking and my belief. Thank you very much.

先日、ロイヤルフリー病院の補完医療チームでボランティアセラピストとして、活動を再開しました。その前はコロナ陽性でしたが、やっと陰性になりよかったです。イギリスで自分自身の体調やメンタルを整えることの大切さを学んでいます。現場に戻れたときは感無量でした。

英国、ハムステッドにあるロイヤルフリー病院の補完医療チームでボランティアセラピストして活動はじめたのは2018年でした。その後、間があいた時もありますが2019年のコロナ前まで続けてやっていました。公式にはオフィシャルオブサーバーでしたが、チームリーダー、キースが日本人である私もチーㇺ一員としてトレーニングをうけさせてくれ、病棟の現場に先輩セラピストと共に施術をさせてくれました。キースのやさしさに今でも感謝です。

コロナでロイヤルフリー病院の活動に参加できない時は、日本で絆サポーターとして、
在宅老人の掃除ボランティアをしながら、高齢者のハンドセラピー等をしたり、認知症予防のための傾聴ボランティアうをしたあとに、フットセラピー等をしておりました。日本もイギリスも活動の基礎となるのは、「よりそうこと」です。セラピストは（個人の持論ですが）常に中立であらねばと思っています。在るがままの患者さんや高齢者を受け入れること

初日に、結腸直腸の手術をいた英国人男性がいらっしゃいました。彼は手術の結果、人工肛門ストーマをつけましたが。ずっとクールだったようです。私には仕事ができそうなイングリッシュ・マンにみえました。ある時（私がまだ出勤する前に）先輩セラピストが施術をしていたら、静かに泣きはじめたと。落ち着くまで離れないて先輩は受け止めていたそうです。クールにみえていたけど、実はそうではなかった。セラピーの魅力はそこにあります。素の自分がでるー自分らしくいれる時間がつくれるところ。

I do not know where I got contacted, I got a positive result with COVID rapid test.
Then, I took a day off Tuesday which I was supposed to work at the Royal free. I got negative one both Wed and Thurs. Finally, I was able to return to volunteer last Friday. I was really convinced how important our well-being should be regulated mentally and physically.

It was 2018 when I started to do volunteer work as a massage therapist. In the meantime, I go back and forth from Japan to the UK and it has continued until 2019. I was an official observer, but I got a proper training with a senior therapist and than, I was allowed to do a complementary therapy with my buddy(=a senior therapist)thanks to Keith Hunt kindness and help(Keith was the former leader of our department)

During pandemic. I went to the UK both 2020 and 2021, but I could not join our team, The hospital management refused to join to refrain from the outbreak. I did understood.
I never forgot to keep in touch with our team at the Royal free.
In Japan, I was a bonding supporter for a female elderly who need a cleaning service. after that, I did her for hand therapy when she needs, Furthermore, I was a listener for male elderly who lost his wife. I visited his house to communicate with him and after that, I did foot therapy. Through my experiences, I feel the importance of therapy is being there no matter what happened.

On the first day, there was an English male patient whose looks cool and very successful business man to me. He had a colorectal surgery. he have to carry his stoma in the end.
He looked nothing happened. but, my buddy started to do the therapy, he was weeping.
before I appeared the Free. She never left him alone and waited quietly until his feelings calmed down. Through touching, I thought his kind of tension, uneasiness for future and anything would be drained as a tear. I think that is part of virtue of therapy. patients behave what he wants and created his own time freely.

2022.07