Gorgeous Matsuno, who is also determined to be a donor… “A Second Life” to devote himself to serving others.

Posted the restricted diet he makes daily for his partner who suffers from serious kidney disease.

After a messy divorce from actress Ayako Sawada, he made his pro wrestling debut in 2002 under the ring name “Gorgeous Matsuno” and overcame depression and cardiopulmonary arrest, but overcame various hardships to return as a pro wrestler. Furthermore, in the Model Japan competition for physical and health beauty, Gorgeous Matsuno won 4th place in 2019 and 2nd place in 2021.

He told us about such a tumultuous life in an article in FRIDAY Digital in January 2021, and now he continues to post his daily meals on Twitter. The reason is that he cooks a restricted diet every day for his partner Junko Tashiro, an enka (traditional Japanese ballad) singer who suffers from a serious kidney disease. What in the world is the story behind this? We spoke with Gorgeous Matsuno again.

Junko Tashiro’s (Junko Tashiro’s) body had been showing signs of lethargy and a slight fever since around the end of the year before last, when she was interviewed by FRIDAY Digital.

However, she could not go to the hospital right away because she was in the middle of her corona, so she went to a hospital with an outpatient fever clinic at the beginning of the year and was told that it was probably just a cold. I went to a hospital with an outpatient fever clinic at the beginning of the year and was told that it was probably just a cold. I was still sick for about a month after that, and after undergoing tests at various hospitals without finding the cause, I was referred to a general hospital and underwent tests in late January of last year.

However, about two days before the results came back, on January 31 of last year, while I was in Tokyo for a wrestling match, her condition suddenly changed and she was hospitalized after calling an ambulance herself. I later heard that if the procedure had been delayed a day or she had held out, it would have been too late.”

In fact, shortly after the publication of the FRIDAY Digital article, a very serious situation occurred.

Her kidney function was in “Stage 5″…

The test results that came out after his hospitalization revealed that he had ANCA-related vasculitis called “microscopic polyangiitis,” which is designated as an intractable disease, and “rapid progressive glomerulonephritis,” which causes kidney values to drop rapidly and rapidly in a short period of time.

He said, “I found out that my kidney function, which is about 60 to 90 points in a normal person, had dropped to about 10 points, and that I was in stage 5, so first I had to do both treatments to reduce inflammation of blood vessels and to restore kidney function.

The treatment consisted of a one-week course of four days of massive intravenous steroid infusion and three days of pills, which is a drug with very strong side effects and is usually only given for up to three courses.

However, it was still not effective, and I was in a difficult situation with weight gain, difficulty sleeping, and diabetes caused by the medication. In fact, I later learned that some people die in that area because they can’t recover.”

In the end, neither inflammation nor kidney function recovered, so he was transferred to a university hospital on March 6 of last year to undergo more advanced tests and treatment. After undergoing temporary dialysis from the neck, treatment to extract antibodies for ANCA, and also using Rituxan, a drug for malignant lymphoma that is now covered by insurance for kidney transplants, his condition finally calmed down and he was discharged last April.

Decided to be a donor! There was no hesitation.”

However, he continued to go back and forth to the hospital until the summer, suffering from enteritis and urinary tract infection. Even after he finally regained his strength around fall, his kidney function did not return and he was going back and forth between stage 4 and stage 5. At the end of last year, there was talk of a kidney transplant.

My doctor told me that I would eventually need alternative kidney therapy, so I should be prepared for that,” he said.

To be honest, I was really shocked to hear that I only had about a year left to live, but I decided that if I had a choice, I would do a transplant right away, and I decided to become a donor.

I was told that a single kidney can retain about 70% of its function, but I am a professional wrestler, so if I had to take a kidney due to trauma to the kidney, the risk that I would have to undergo dialysis would increase. But I had no hesitation in becoming a donor.”