As a well-known and beautiful celebrity chef, Hanayama Mikie, even though she was now living in the hospital with cancer, still blogged every day, maintaining her personal image and popularity. After all, for someone like her who rose to fame through the internet, this was her career, the work she had to complete daily.
Although Hanayama Mikie was worried about her cancer, thanks to the encouragement from her attending physician, Doctor Higashiyama, and his detailed explanations about her condition and the possibility of recovery, which prevented her from bearing an excessive psychological burden, she did not seem hopeless or overly anxious like other cancer patients.
While she did not worry much about her illness, the ongoing impact on her sense of taste still weighed heavily on her mind. Compared to the possible threat to her life from cancer, losing her sense of taste meant a death sentence for her career; she had to heal her tongue.