It was December last year, when I heard Maria was suffering from something mysterious. She had difficulty in walking long distance and couldn't climb up stairs. I heard she moved from the suburb to the downtown Tokyo to be close to her office. I was expecting to see her at a get-together our mutual friends arranged when I visited Tokyo. She couldn't make it. Later when she told me in her e-mail that she might have ALS, I really hoped she didn't. I was afraid to ask further.
After being preliminarily diagnosed with ALS, she was admitted to a hospital in January for an in-depth work-up, where she was about to go through a battery of tests.
by J. Ujiie
©2011
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