{"id":31231,"date":"2022-12-11T01:07:42","date_gmt":"2022-12-11T09:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/31231\/"},"modified":"2024-01-17T00:32:26","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T08:32:26","slug":"31231","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/31231\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, I\u2019m in Japan again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" data-id=\"31225\"  src=\"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_9790.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_9790.jpg 600w, http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_9790-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" data-id=\"31226\"  src=\"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_9791.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31226\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_9791.jpg 600w, http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_9791-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" data-id=\"31224\"  src=\"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_9792.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31224\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_9792.jpg 600w, http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_9792-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" data-id=\"31227\"  src=\"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_9793.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31227\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_9793.jpg 600w, http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_9793-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" data-id=\"31228\"  src=\"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_9795.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31228\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_9795.jpg 600w, http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_9795-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" data-id=\"31229\"  src=\"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_9798.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31229\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_9798.jpg 600w, http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_9798-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" data-id=\"31230\"  src=\"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_9796.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31230\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_9796.jpg 600w, http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_9796-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Why? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To get to see my mom every day is a treat &#8211; miss her \u2026 and to justify my guilt here I am again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf she lived nearby I would see her at least once a week so that\u2019s 4 times a month; 48 times a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So \u2026 I am going to see her at least 48 days a year to makeup. Best I can do for now though with 24\/7 care, so little privacy\u2026 and I wish I had talked and listened to her before as I always wanted to write her biography. But oh no. She cannot be interviewed now as she will tease me she can\u2019t remember. Why didn\u2019t I do this 10 years ago. I\u2019m tearing up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With advancing but managed dementia symptoms, there are good days and bad days.  I should feel lucky enough that this time too she remembered me. She knows who I am. Yes, I\u2019m your daughter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Miss the old-self mother \u2026 but I know she\u2019s still there inside her. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_1021.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31235\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_1021.jpg 450w, http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_1021-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">So cute !<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>She\u2019s unable to go to a hair salon like before so her helpers braid her hair. She turned into a little girl- how\u2019s that for a role reversal. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why? To get to see my mom every day is a treat &#8211; miss her \u2026 and to justify my guilt here I am again. \u201cIf she lived nearby I would see her at least once a week so that\u2019s 4 times a month; 48 times a year. So \u2026 I am going to see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31231"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31231"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31985,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31231\/revisions\/31985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}