Overlaying distant memories.01

There was a big hospital here.

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Where the hospital was located where I was born.
Two years later my sister was born and I went to see her in a taxi with my grandmother and a young woman who was a friend of my grandmother's.
I don't remember my mother having just given birth to my sister, nor do I remember the baby, but I remember that the three of us went to see her, probably because we took a taxi to the hospital, which we usually go to by Kobe tram.
When I was little, whenever I had a sore throat, I was taken to an ENT and given Lugol's solution.
I was told that because my tonsils were enlarged, if there was inflammation with high fever, I would have to have them removed, but I was not prone to fever and only needed the Lugol's solution application.
There was a cafeteria in the basement of the hospital and I looked forward to buying ice cream from the shop. Sometimes it was ice cream monaca, but I preferred vanilla popsicles covered in crispy chocolate, and my preference remains unchanged to this day. When I rode the tram home, I watched live-action Astro Boy on the TV my father had made. I wonder if I also watched Kaiketsu Harimao and Hayabusa the Undersea Man in the morning. I can remember that the Shonen Jet was in the evening.
When I was in junior high school, I was admitted to the hospital here for appendicitis and underwent surgery. In my first year of university, I was admitted and operated on for removal of varicose veins of the spermatic cord. The second operation was on a sensitive area, but it was not a gastrointestinal operation, so the hospital food has always been normal food from the beginning. If I was hungry, I could go to the shop and buy something. After dinner, I walked around the old hospital until lights out and sat still on a bench in the basement.
I also remember my mother bringing me a copy of the Arkham book that had just arrived.

The hospital, which was a stone building like the one still standing on Kaigan Street, was moved to another ward two years before my father's death. The newly built hospital is a commonplace modern building.
The building that accompanied many memories is gone.

Even now that everything is gone, standing here reminds me of the faces of the people I miss.
I wanted to add the image of this beautiful person to those memories as a pseudo-memory.

私が生まれた病院のあった場所。
２年後に妹が生まれ、祖母と祖母の友達の若い女の人とタクシーで会いにあった。
妹を産んだばかりの母のことも赤ん坊のことも覚えていないのに、３人で会いにいったことを覚えているのは、普段は神戸市電で行く病院に、タクシーを使ったからだろう。
小さい頃は、喉が痛くなると耳鼻科に連れていかれ、ルゴール液を塗られた。
扁桃腺肥大であるため、高熱を伴う炎症があれば切除することになると言われたが、さして熱が出やすい質ではなく、ルゴール液塗布だけで済んだ。
病院の地下に食堂があり、売店で、アイスクリームを買ってもらうのが楽しみだった。アイス最中のときもあったが、パリパリのチョコレートで覆われたバニラアイスキャンデーが好きで、好みは今でも変わらない。市電に乗って帰ると、父が作ったテレビで、実写の鉄腕アトムを見た。怪傑ハリマオや海底人ハヤブサも午前中に見ていたのだろうか。少年ジェットは夕方だったという記憶になる。
中学生の時に虫垂炎で入院し、手術。大学１年生のときに精索静脈瘤除去のため、また入院手術。二度目の手術はややこしい部位だったが、消化器系の手術ではなかったため、最初からずっと病院食は普通食。お腹が空けば、売店へ行って、何か買ってくることもできた。夕食後、消灯までの時間、古い病院の中を歩いて回り、地下のベンチでじっと座っていた。
届いたばかりのArkham本を母が持ってきてくれたのも思い出す。