As revealed on her own official website, 18-year-old Rikako Ikee, the Japanese Olympic finalist and 2018 Asian Games MVP now battling leukemia, was discharged from the hospital in May to have a short visit with her family.
“While I was away from the hospital, I spent relaxing days, enjoying meals with my family and getting lots of fresh air,” Ikee said on her site, posted with a photo of the swimming star and her siblings.
“Treatment is ongoing, and there are days I don’t feel so well. On those days, I just wait for time to pass and somehow manage to survive. I stay motivated by setting a post-discharge goal for myself,” Ikee said.
Ikee was allowed to return home for a few days late last month before being readmitted for further treatment. (Kyodo)
We reported just days ago that Ikee had added light exercise in the form of a stationery bike in her hospital room while undergoing leukemia treatments.
Her coach, Olympian Jiro Miki, told Asian media,”She’s getting better day by day. She’s really battling it with a positive mindset, so sometimes she even gives me energy. I’m really impressed.” (Kyodo News)
Ikee also enrolled in Nihon University’s College of Sports Sciences, despite undergoing treatments.
Ikee is cute snd from her past performances, she made Japan great as well as herself and put smile and joy to millions of her fans across the world.Personally i love her and Jehovah will definitely cure her and renew her mindset from the battling disease that wanted to hinder her progress and efforts she have exerted to become a sports legend. I feel like to be the heavenly God thst will cure her, then i will heal her in one day to keep her happiness to the highest esteem from her teenage life to her grey hair. But God will still do something great to release her and continue to make Ikee to shine. She must be what she… Read more »
Wishing her a fast recovery. Happy that she could spend time with family, as it seems that she is in the hospital for long periods. That must be hard on her.
praying for Rikako’s recovery
wow some people will downvote anything…. even best wishes for someone’s recovery from cancer. Unreal.
We use Rikako’s butterfly as an example of great speed and efficiency. She uses a beautiful vertical arm recovery. We wish her a speedy recovery from The Race Club and hope to see her competing in Tokyo next year. That would be something!!
Nice plug
I think it is meant as a compliment to her stroke efficiency. Yes she is going through a challenge and everyone wishes her the best but we know her for her swimming and there is nothing wrong with marveling at that ability and learning from it.
I honestly get a pit in my stomach every time I’m reminded of this
Why? Cancer hits even the best of us. They should just leave her personal life alone and stop creating such anticlimactic stories about her recovery. She will swim fast when she is ready
The part where she has cancer before she’s even 20