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close to me, and he didn’t go outside even when his friend came to ask himout to play. Since he was so endearing, I missed him greatly while I wasoutside of my home. We did a lot of activities together, going to Rakurakuen,swimming in the sea, taking a walk in town, and drinking cups of coffee inthe shop. Also, I let him ride on a mule, a bicycle, and a boat.On January 1st, 1945, my wife was sleeping due to her acute hepatitis.While I was away from home because of my factory work, Nobuo massagedher feet and shoulders the whole night as she felt lethargic. Even now shetells me that episode.Nobuo was struck by the atomic bomb while at school and passed out.After a while, he returned to his senses and crawled out from under thecrushed school building. In a blaze, he managed to find a way to run from theferocious fire. Wandering around for a few days, around August 10th, hefinally managed to meet up with my wife and came to the house where I wascuring my injury in Nishitakaya-mura. From that day, he had been all rightfor about a week, but before long he started to have a low fever. At first, Ithought it was from exhaustion and let him sleep well and eat nutritiousmeals. His fever, however, gradually increased and he started to havenausea. I consulted with a doctor and he didn’t consider it a big problemeither at first.The fever kept rising and remained high. He started to get a nosebleedand bloody spots appeared on his skin. The doctor just gave him shots ofglucose and vitamins to strengthen his body. The blood would not stopcoming out from the hole made by an injection. His condition was strange. Iasked the doctor whether he required a blood infusion. The doctor said that ablood infusion would not help my son’s condition. Fearing that he might getcerebral meningitis, I would often ask a nurse to give him a shot to bring hisfever down. It would temporarily decrease, only to soon the increase again,giving him a chill. I couldn’t stand seeing his suffering.