I found these (and many more) in a cute little box in a thrift shop in Osaka for 100 yen… What do you think? Most of them date back to H16 (2003)… I really hope the story has a happy ending ❤️
Yes, I believe the letter writer was the one who was sick but I’m not sure if she was dying. Seems like there was some difficulty at birth that caused complications and these letters were written to keep the writer busy while in the hospital at various times.
Edit 1: I am a serial editor so this will probably get longer as I look through the pictures and add.
Edit 2: in picture 7, the letter writer referenced coming out 24 years ago with the umbilical cord wrapped around them (their neck I’m assuming) three times and causing their mother trouble. They apologize to the mother.
In picture 6, I believe they’re thanking their mom for bringing them food in the hospital. And they feel bad for the energy it takes their mom to see them like this.
This person has/had great taste in stationary.
Edit 3: I wonder if the mom was a nurse (47th birthday card)
Edit 4: after significant eye strain I still don’t think anyone is dying here. I think at some point the letter writer was in the hospital after having a complicated delivery of her baby. Uterine prolapse, etc. The letter writer’s mother also had a complicated delivery when giving birth to the letter writer. So this experience brought her closer to her mother. And gave her some time to use a lot of stationary.
Final edit: Jesus fucking Christ I need to write my mom some letters
Final final edit: i am going back to my original theory that the DAUGHTER is a nurse. The mother possibly is too. (So the nurse character in the 50th birthday note is the daughter, and the comic with the doctor and patients is the daughter coming into the floor for work, and the lower middle note in the image with a lot of notes is the daughter explaining something that happened at work, I believe. It uses medical notation for hours (“2Rs”) that nurses use.)
why would someone sell this?
The handwriting looks so pretty too
(I do not speak English so I use DeepL to translate)
I checked the contents of the letters. These are probably letters from the nurse to her mother. I think they lived together, but because of her job as a nurse, they probably didn’t talk much, so she wrote a lot of letters to her mom. And I think her mom kept these letters from her beloved daughter in this treasure box.
Most of the stuff written in the memo pad is like a diary, with things like caring for her mom, thanking her, and complaining about work. It is suggested that she may have had some kind of illness, but it is unclear whether it was life-threatening. My intuition tells me it might have been something like mental stress-induced hearing loss or a rash from the demanding nature of her nursing work.
In the seventh image, it is shown that she was 24 years old at the time and was hospitalized for some reason. However, there is little sense of despair, so it is unlikely to have been a life-threatening illness.
It would be nice if you could find the person who wrote these and returned them. Or at least the remaining family I guess
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Yes, I believe the letter writer was the one who was sick but I’m not sure if she was dying. Seems like there was some difficulty at birth that caused complications and these letters were written to keep the writer busy while in the hospital at various times.
Edit 1: I am a serial editor so this will probably get longer as I look through the pictures and add.
Edit 2: in picture 7, the letter writer referenced coming out 24 years ago with the umbilical cord wrapped around them (their neck I’m assuming) three times and causing their mother trouble. They apologize to the mother.
In picture 6, I believe they’re thanking their mom for bringing them food in the hospital. And they feel bad for the energy it takes their mom to see them like this.
This person has/had great taste in stationary.
Edit 3: I wonder if the mom was a nurse (47th birthday card)
Edit 4: after significant eye strain I still don’t think anyone is dying here. I think at some point the letter writer was in the hospital after having a complicated delivery of her baby. Uterine prolapse, etc. The letter writer’s mother also had a complicated delivery when giving birth to the letter writer. So this experience brought her closer to her mother. And gave her some time to use a lot of stationary.
Final edit: Jesus fucking Christ I need to write my mom some letters
Final final edit: i am going back to my original theory that the DAUGHTER is a nurse. The mother possibly is too. (So the nurse character in the 50th birthday note is the daughter, and the comic with the doctor and patients is the daughter coming into the floor for work, and the lower middle note in the image with a lot of notes is the daughter explaining something that happened at work, I believe. It uses medical notation for hours (“2Rs”) that nurses use.)
why would someone sell this?
The handwriting looks so pretty too
(I do not speak English so I use DeepL to translate)
I checked the contents of the letters. These are probably letters from the nurse to her mother. I think they lived together, but because of her job as a nurse, they probably didn’t talk much, so she wrote a lot of letters to her mom. And I think her mom kept these letters from her beloved daughter in this treasure box.
Most of the stuff written in the memo pad is like a diary, with things like caring for her mom, thanking her, and complaining about work. It is suggested that she may have had some kind of illness, but it is unclear whether it was life-threatening. My intuition tells me it might have been something like mental stress-induced hearing loss or a rash from the demanding nature of her nursing work.
In the seventh image, it is shown that she was 24 years old at the time and was hospitalized for some reason. However, there is little sense of despair, so it is unlikely to have been a life-threatening illness.
It would be nice if you could find the person who wrote these and returned them. Or at least the remaining family I guess
one of my favorite things on this sub thus far