Torigoe Yusuke
There is a former professional baseball player who calls for early detection and treatment of breast cancer.
Torigoe Yusuke is an alumnus of the SoftBank Hawks.
Torigoe lost his wife, who was 34 years old at the time, to breast cancer in 2008.
That year, Chie and I met the Torigoe couple in the waiting room at Kyushu Cancer Center.
Torigoe-san doesn’t know who we are,
Although he had no idea what he had been there, my wife wrote about the encounters he had at the time on her blog.* “Everyone has a lot of things” (June 3, 2008)
Three years later, he met Torigoe, who rushed to celebrate at the J1 promotion party at Avispa Fukuoka. I confessed what I had seen at Kyushu Cancer Center and that I lost my wife in the same year.
I was invited to the J1 promotion party because I was the Avispa reporter at Nishinippon Shimbun. Torigoe Shunsuke is on the right. Commemorative photo at the venue (January 16, 2011)
Since then, I have continued to be friends with Torigoe, even though it is a small matter.
When I invited children from the disaster-stricken areas to Kitakyushu Civic Stadium for the Great East Japan Earthquake Reconstruction Support Project I was in charge of for work, Torigoe saw me and instead of passing through the team, he said, “It’s fine, it’s fine. It’s fine,” and took the Tohoku children to the player’s waiting room.
After that, I also learned that Torigoe is working on volunteer activities to raise awareness and promote breast cancer screening.
To my surprise, Dr. Ono Shinji, CEO of Happy Manma, was handed over the donation, was the attending doctor of his late wife, Chie.
When you experience a bereavement, you tend to think that you are the only one who is suffering, but that’s not the case. It’s not something that can be done easily, but I think it’s better to learn how to switch things up like Torigoe-san. The person who passed away will be pleased too. It was a reunion that made me realize something important.
Everyone has a lot of things (June 3, 2008)
That day,
I went to the hospital as usual.
The waiting room was as great as usual.
Among them,
There was an athlete.
His height is nearly 190cm.
Her body is well trained and she has a strong muscle.
I think I’ll be 30 years old or not.
He is still a young handsome athlete.
Next to it,
About people like this,
I guess he’s going to say “Karen”
There was a thin, fleeting, beautiful woman.
He must be his wife.
Being in the waiting room with me means
That means they have the same illness.
I couldn’t get in with me and I was holding my thin arm tightly,
He headed back towards the accounting.
That a family will get cancer.
It’s a big deal.
It’s fine because I’m myself too.
I sincerely feel that I’m glad I had cancer.
If this were your important husband or daughter…
I don’t know what to do,
Tired of caring for me,
I’m pounding,
He might have given up a long time ago.
Because it’s about me, I can tell how much pain and pain is,
You can overcome it.
He will now live his life supporting his wife.
As they watched them go home,
“Everyone has to deal with a lot…” he tweeted.
I wanted to support that player from my heart.
I’ll do my best too.
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