How I Came Back from Eczema

I am going to update this document regularly whenever I am ready.

Preface

Having health problem gives us opportunites to learn about our health and medicine.

There are three rules I would like you to know before reading this.

1. Don't read this. Every piece you are going to read here is a lie or misunderstanding.
2. Please forget everything you are going to read here.
3. This is not a rule. I just want to appreciate you for deciding to read this. Thank you.

Please assume that every piece you are going to read here is a lie. I am writing this just because I want people to know there is different ideas and views. Unfortunately, medicine, especially in the US, becomes the way to make money not the way to improve our health. There, quite a few people want to consume drugs as much as possible before they die. All they care about is how more drugs they can intake. That is fine. But forcing it on everyone is definitely wrong.

Whose health?

This question is everything. No one needs to read this any more after this. All I wrote other than this is unnecessary to be read.

Before Eczema

My skin was not bad at all when I was little.

When I was 5 years old. I got a problem between my hip and left leg. The cartilage tissue at the root of my left leg is gone and hard bones hit each other every time I walk. It caused some pain so I could not walk with my left leg. A hopital my parents took me to gave me an assistant equipment so my left leg could absorb the force of my weight. About one year later, the same symptom appeared on my right leg and I lost the ability to walk. I could have walked but with pain. My local public school told me they would not take care of me any more. I was sent to a facility for kids with disability in a countryside.

You might say this is not related to Eczema at all, but for me this experience is precious and valuable.

My life with kids with much heavier disability started. There were about 60 kids at the facility. Nurses were with us for 24 hours. The facility had a school from elementary to high school. Much later, I visited there before going to the US, and was told that the number of kids went a half. I recently checked it on the Internet map, and it was completely gone. It was old so understandable...

The first year, I was on a wheelbed. As it describes itself, a wheelbed has four wheels around a bed. I went everywhere on it. This might sound sad to you, but it was nothing to me. I never felt I was inferior to other kids. There, every kid had some kind of disability and mine was one of the lightest.

The second year, I moved to a wheel chair from the wheel bed.

The last year, I was walking with assistance on my right leg.

Asthma is gone

I am not sure when asthma started, but I had it when I was around 12 years old. I left the hospital when I was 10 years old. For more than 2 years, I was coughing whenever it happened. Usually, it appeared when I was on heavy exercise or before sleeping. It was nothing when, for example, I was playing soccer and coughing. I thought it was hard to breathe because I had been at the hospital for long and my body was not used to exercise. It was much harder when it appeared before sleeping. I had to be coughing for a couple of hours and could not stay laid down on bed. I was wondering that I was going to die, but at the same time I was used to it so I did nothing.

Asthma was gone while I did nothing to it. Later, I learned it was asthma and felt so lucky because I did not go to any doctors for that. This built some confidence by accident. Around this time, I used to play soccer and swim just for fun. It was not serious thing. Soccer before school, lunch break, and swimming at swimming school. I think these two sports are good for asthma.

Getting stuck

After getting into a high school, eczema was getting worse a little bit. I was not aware I was going down on a long and winding road at this moment.

How bad did my skin go?

I went really bad. Like really, really bad. Unfortunately, I do not have any photos of myself at that time. I had a flip phone, which was common before smartphones, and a cheap digital camera. I could have recorded of myself and should have with them, but it was really bad so I did not have any motivation to do it. The most importantly, I was not sure if I could come back. I was down at the bottom.

I can give you an example how I looked like although I strongly recommend not to look at it. Especially you should not if you are really young because it looks really bad.

DO NOT DO IT. I DID WARN YOU. Please look up with a word "Harlequin-type ichthyosis" if you are ready.

I have no idea which image you are looking at. But I am sure any image of them looks bad. My skin exactly looked like them. I was not born like that, but gradually went to become like that. I was really down. I am not exaggerating here. Was down so hard...

Think, think, and think

Do I understand medicine better than the best scientists and doctors in the world?

Quantity matters not quality

What is allergy after all?

Learning from other patients and everything

What is eczema

What is asthma

What is hay fever

Having exercise regularly is underrated and medicine is overrated

Believing in science is easy and living healthy is hard

Basketball is fun

Even in the US, I ran a lot for exercise, but I was so sick of it. It was about time to find another sport for exercize. Honestly, runniit to run any more while I enjoyed running in Seattle, which is a beautiful city.

Why I went to the US

Why the US is the one to be changed

No matter how worse they have been doing for decades, they are the most powerful and loudest ones in the world of medicine. Their main excuses for consistently doing worse have been these two for decades, American people are dumb for not believing in science and healthcare insurance sucks.

Get healthy quick scheme never ends

The popularity of believing in science is based on laziness. It does not require us to use any brain cell. You believe in it, then suddenly you are on the right side while nothing changes.

American people are the best patients in the world

Financially. It does not matter