Kashiwagi Yuki - "I have no memory of the first two days after the operation"

Kashiwagi Yuki (30) had to take a break after having surgery to treat Syringomyelia (a tumor in her spinal cord which was affecting her body).

Kashiwagi who returned to work on her 30th birthday on the 15th said on her latest video on her YouTube channel that she is doing well.

On the video, Kashiwagi said that the day before her surgery, she had two blood tests and an MRI scan. On the day of surgery, drinks were prohibited from 6:30 am and around 8 am,she called her mother that she was walking to the operation room.

When she got into the room, she saw a lot of machines and commented how it looked like a drama, making the doctor laugh. But once she was sedated, by the time she was going to say that she’s getting sleepy, she was already asleep.

When she woke up at ICU after the surgery, she saw her mother and manager at ICU and they confirmed that she could move her limbs. Her toes were raised and lowered, and she was able to swing her legs.

She wasn’t able to drink water for several hours after the operation, but she was able to gargle.

When she woke up at 7 am the day after, she was using a mechanical painkiller every ten minutes. But those two days after the operation, she is unable to remember because it was too painful. She slept most of the time.

She remembers her manager feeding her fruit.

Before she was hospitalized, she would go to sleep from 3 to 4 in the middle of the night but since the operation, she goes to bed at 10 or 11 and wakes up at 7 am.

While she was discharged from the hospital on the eighth day after her surgery, she is now rehabilitating. Rehabilitation is 23 times a week.

This includes weights on her arms and trying to lift her arms up and down and doing crab walking from left to right to help increase her speed.

Kashiwagi said she is grateful that the surgical scars were clean and she left the hospital feeling she could return to AKB48.