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Okaasan, Kumiko Ogihara, passed away early Saturday morning. It turns out, I was right about everything I thought I understood. Okaasan had a stroke on wednesday night. It must have been late because I slept through an emergency helicopter coming to pick her up. The stroke had caused an inoperable aneurysm, I believe anyway unless it`s the other way around and the aneurysm causes the stroke. I visited her twice in the hospital on Friday though she was in a coma. On Friday they had to stop giving her medicine because although it would help her to live longer it would start to make her body worse. After they stopped the medicine it was only a matter of time, though I learned that everyone else knew she only had two or three days from the beginning. That is the only thing I had failed to catch. On Saturday the funeral process began which is as both Otoosan and Manami say, mendokusai and taihen, very tiresome and tough. Okaasan is in the house, in her room and will be until Tuesday. On Tuesday they will hold the actual funeral and on Wednesday they will cremate her. So, for awhile, I wont really have much to post. I`ll play catch up next weekend.

Much Love, and if you can continue to pray for her family then thank you.