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Health Care in Japan article. "You never know until you ask" has been a motto I've been religiously following and this time asked if I could bring my camera to take pics of the medical equipment used in the tests - the hospital was delighted to have me take photos! First photo was taken at about 09:30 after arriving at the hospital and getting changed. Just imagine a hospital full of people wearing the same and you get The Island. Zooming back in time to the beginning of the day. This is where I store my poo samples. Folks living in Japan may have to do this one day or another so I'll give you a tip to save you from making vomiting sounds as you try to fish a sample of your poo. The green bit of these containers is like a little stick which you are meant to prod your poo with to grab a sample. But poo is a stubborn animal and will try to escape from you when you prod at it. Just like the hedgehog, octopus and skunk, poo may try to protect itself when you reach for it by hurling a piece of undigested corn or spinach at you. If you end up with some spinach or corn in your mouth then just rinse it with some saliva and swallow as its perfectly safe for consumption. But rather than try prodding at the poo, what you can do is pretend you are playing darts and throw the green stick at the poo. Be careful not to miss or you will have to stick your hand in the pooey pee water to retrieve the dart. Once you have got a bit of poo on your dart, give the tip a good smell. If it smells like fresh strawberries then you are in luck as poo smelling of strawberries is a delicacy in some parts of the world. You should retrieve all the poo and freeze dry it and then contact your local candy maker to manufacture your poo as an in-between meal snack. Well done.Need to fill out a questionnaire about my current lifestyle. Questions include:- -Do you skip breakfast -Do you eat out often -Do you smoke -Do you drink alcohol -Do you often eat 2 hours before sleeping -Do you eat faster than others -Do you have trouble sleeping -Since the age of 20, has your weight increased by more than 10kg? Presuming that each item above is 1 point, how many did you score? I score 1 under "Do you eat out often." I'm guessing that excessive amounts of restaurant food is bad for you. If you scored 8 then you may want to consult with a health consultant.At Azabu Juban station - closest station to Mita Hospital on the Nanboku line. Mita Hospital is where I had my health checkup last year and had it there this year too.Health Care in Japan photo article. The man is not there anymore.Taisei Construction. I looked at the artwork and thought "Makoto Shinkai" and sure enough the CM is made by the same production team as Byosoku 5 Centimeters. I could only find the low quality version below at youtube but you can see the higher quality but smaller version at Taisei. After checking in at the hospital, I'm given my schedule for the morning of all the different tests I'm going to go through:- -Electrocardiography -Blood sample -Height/Weight -Eyesight -Listening -Blood pressure -Lung/Stomach x-ray -Barium stomach scanthis time last year.This is where the listening test is done - a sound proof cell. One is given a pair of headphones and a Sega Saturn joy pad. The joy pad is left on the floor and one should take the other joy pad with a single button that one should press upon hearing beeps. The beeps are hardly audible. I scored well on this one. Some Sega Saturn Thunderforce action below. taken from Wikipedia below. Barium is a chemical element. It has the symbol Ba, and atomic number 56. Barium is a soft silvery metallic alkaline earth metal. It is never found in nature in its pure form due to its reactivity with air. Its oxide is historically known as baryta but it reacts with water and carbon dioxide and is not found as a mineral. The most common naturally occurring minerals are the very insoluble barium sulfate, BaSO4 (barite), and barium carbonate, BaCO3 (witherite). Benitoite is a rare gem containing barium. Metallic barium has few industrial uses, but has been historically used to scavenge air in electronic vacuum tubes. Barium compounds impart a green color to flames and have been used in fireworks. Barium sulfate is used for its heaviness, insolubility, and X-ray opacity. It is used as an insoluble heavy mud-like paste when drilling oil wells, and in purer form, as an X-ray radiocontrast agent for imaging the human gastrointestinal tract. Soluble barium compounds are poisonous due to release of the soluble barium ion, and have been used as rodenticides. New uses for barium continue to be found: it is an essential ingredient in "high temperature" YBCO superconductors. The little container to the right of the photo is some powder that I drink with some water that generates a ton of gas in the stomach. Upon drinking it, one wants to burp and its difficult to keep in but if one does end up burping then more of it has to be drunk - so try not to burp! The bigger cup is the barium - has a chalky taste and almost feels like you are drinking paint - not that I've tried paint before.And this is the barium stomach scanning table. One gets on it and clings on for dear life as it turns and tips back n forth. You are not strapped in because you are instructed to move around and roll over from time to time. Sometimes the table would tip backwards with you lying on it which is fun for the first 5 seconds and then starts to get painful trying to hold on to the table. The bit with the yellow triangle sticker is the camera and the thing sticking out the top is like a robotic arm which extends and pushes your stomach to move around the barium in the stomach. This will leave your stomach hurting for just a bit. After you are done, you go to the washing basin to rinse your mouth where you will let off embarrassingly loud burps.By the elevator looking at a poster talking about the dangers of smoking. There is another poster that lists how much it costs to stay per night at the hospital for patients. The high end room has gone up from 36,750 yen to 39,900 yen while the low end rooms have gone up from 12,600 yen to 13,650 yen per night. Does it cost a bomb to stay in hospital in your neck of the woods?My health checkup is billed directly to my company as part of some company plan for employees over the age of 35. Cant remember how much it costs but will update you. This bill for 1,200 yen is for a copy of the scans of my stomach and lungs. It's not common knowledge but you can request a copy. I just requested one of each but you can ask for all.Suzanne. 1 QR code for oppai and the other QR code for the V-zone. Upon scanning them you are presenting with whats under the foamy white stuff. They make their money from you downloading the pics on your mobile device and will cost you 80 yen for a peek of each of these areas. Interesting monetization method.700 yen. Tasted lovely.K-ON 06. Mio shimapan lurve. Miko Ryomo post earlier on. Available at Amazon for 6,825 yen.this plastic drawer from Muji for 800 yen - fits nicely.This is just one side of the bath ceiling compartment currently filled with boxes and wot not. Everything up here is perfectly dry and we've been using this space since we moved into this house over 3 years ago. One of the things I miss about living in the UK is an attic to stash stuff.The Quiz Show. Hmmmm. Whos that next to the TV?
Health Care in Japan article. "You never know until you ask" has been a motto I've been religiously following and this time asked if I could bring my camera to take pics of the medical equipment used in the tests - the hospital was delighted to have me take photos! First photo was taken at about 09:30 after arriving at the hospital and getting changed. Just imagine a hospital full of people wearing the same and you get The Island. Zooming back in time to the beginning of the day. This is where I store my poo samples. Folks living in Japan may have to do this one day or another so I'll give you a tip to save you from making vomiting sounds as you try to fish a sample of your poo. The green bit of these containers is like a little stick which you are meant to prod your poo with to grab a sample. But poo is a stubborn animal and will try to escape from you when you prod at it. Just like the hedgehog, octopus and skunk, poo may try to protect itself when you reach for it by hurling a piece of undigested corn or spinach at you. If you end up with some spinach or corn in your mouth then just rinse it with some saliva and swallow as its perfectly safe for consumption. But rather than try prodding at the poo, what you can do is pretend you are playing darts and throw the green stick at the poo. Be careful not to miss or you will have to stick your hand in the pooey pee water to retrieve the dart. Once you have got a bit of poo on your dart, give the tip a good smell. If it smells like fresh strawberries then you are in luck as poo smelling of strawberries is a delicacy in some parts of the world. You should retrieve all the poo and freeze dry it and then contact your local candy maker to manufacture your poo as an in-between meal snack. Well done.Need to fill out a questionnaire about my current lifestyle. Questions include:- -Do you skip breakfast -Do you eat out often -Do you smoke -Do you drink alcohol -Do you often eat 2 hours before sleeping -Do you eat faster than others -Do you have trouble sleeping -Since the age of 20, has your weight increased by more than 10kg? Presuming that each item above is 1 point, how many did you score? I score 1 under "Do you eat out often." I'm guessing that excessive amounts of restaurant food is bad for you. If you scored 8 then you may want to consult with a health consultant.At Azabu Juban station - closest station to Mita Hospital on the Nanboku line. Mita Hospital is where I had my health checkup last year and had it there this year too.Health Care in Japan photo article. The man is not there anymore.Taisei Construction. I looked at the artwork and thought "Makoto Shinkai" and sure enough the CM is made by the same production team as Byosoku 5 Centimeters. I could only find the low quality version below at youtube but you can see the higher quality but smaller version at Taisei. After checking in at the hospital, I'm given my schedule for the morning of all the different tests I'm going to go through:- -Electrocardiography -Blood sample -Height/Weight -Eyesight -Listening -Blood pressure -Lung/Stomach x-ray -Barium stomach scanthis time last year.This is where the listening test is done - a sound proof cell. One is given a pair of headphones and a Sega Saturn joy pad. The joy pad is left on the floor and one should take the other joy pad with a single button that one should press upon hearing beeps. The beeps are hardly audible. I scored well on this one. Some Sega Saturn Thunderforce action below. taken from Wikipedia below. Barium is a chemical element. It has the symbol Ba, and atomic number 56. Barium is a soft silvery metallic alkaline earth metal. It is never found in nature in its pure form due to its reactivity with air. Its oxide is historically known as baryta but it reacts with water and carbon dioxide and is not found as a mineral. The most common naturally occurring minerals are the very insoluble barium sulfate, BaSO4 (barite), and barium carbonate, BaCO3 (witherite). Benitoite is a rare gem containing barium. Metallic barium has few industrial uses, but has been historically used to scavenge air in electronic vacuum tubes. Barium compounds impart a green color to flames and have been used in fireworks. Barium sulfate is used for its heaviness, insolubility, and X-ray opacity. It is used as an insoluble heavy mud-like paste when drilling oil wells, and in purer form, as an X-ray radiocontrast agent for imaging the human gastrointestinal tract. Soluble barium compounds are poisonous due to release of the soluble barium ion, and have been used as rodenticides. New uses for barium continue to be found: it is an essential ingredient in "high temperature" YBCO superconductors. The little container to the right of the photo is some powder that I drink with some water that generates a ton of gas in the stomach. Upon drinking it, one wants to burp and its difficult to keep in but if one does end up burping then more of it has to be drunk - so try not to burp! The bigger cup is the barium - has a chalky taste and almost feels like you are drinking paint - not that I've tried paint before.And this is the barium stomach scanning table. One gets on it and clings on for dear life as it turns and tips back n forth. You are not strapped in because you are instructed to move around and roll over from time to time. Sometimes the table would tip backwards with you lying on it which is fun for the first 5 seconds and then starts to get painful trying to hold on to the table. The bit with the yellow triangle sticker is the camera and the thing sticking out the top is like a robotic arm which extends and pushes your stomach to move around the barium in the stomach. This will leave your stomach hurting for just a bit. After you are done, you go to the washing basin to rinse your mouth where you will let off embarrassingly loud burps.By the elevator looking at a poster talking about the dangers of smoking. There is another poster that lists how much it costs to stay per night at the hospital for patients. The high end room has gone up from 36,750 yen to 39,900 yen while the low end rooms have gone up from 12,600 yen to 13,650 yen per night. Does it cost a bomb to stay in hospital in your neck of the woods?My health checkup is billed directly to my company as part of some company plan for employees over the age of 35. Cant remember how much it costs but will update you. This bill for 1,200 yen is for a copy of the scans of my stomach and lungs. It's not common knowledge but you can request a copy. I just requested one of each but you can ask for all.Suzanne. 1 QR code for oppai and the other QR code for the V-zone. Upon scanning them you are presenting with whats under the foamy white stuff. They make their money from you downloading the pics on your mobile device and will cost you 80 yen for a peek of each of these areas. Interesting monetization method.700 yen. Tasted lovely.K-ON 06. Mio shimapan lurve. Miko Ryomo post earlier on. Available at Amazon for 6,825 yen.this plastic drawer from Muji for 800 yen - fits nicely.This is just one side of the bath ceiling compartment currently filled with boxes and wot not. Everything up here is perfectly dry and we've been using this space since we moved into this house over 3 years ago. One of the things I miss about living in the UK is an attic to stash stuff.The Quiz Show. Hmmmm. Whos that next to the TV?
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