As I wrote in my diary before, I have a serious left knee problem now. July of 2004 was the first time I felt a serious pain in my left knee. I was extremely busy then, getting ready to move to Korea. hiroro is a my pace person. Me? I'm a person who once she notices that things should be done, then it must be done right away. I knew that my health was on a limit, but I was getting things done because of my mentality. One day, I felt a serious pain in my left knee. Few hours later, I was sick in bed with a fever of almost 39 degrees Celcius. For the next 4 days, I had to go to the hospital for medical drip injections. The number of my White blood cells were increasing rapidly. To tell you the truth, I had to go for medical drip injections for 1-2 more days. But my blood vains are so called "Nurse's nuinsance". My blood vains are very thin and they are very hard to find. They just don't come out even when the nurses hit me real hard on my arms.They always have a very hard time, just getting the blood sample for my blood tests. Once a nurse said to me, "In the medical book, it says that your blood vains are here in this area. But yours seem to jump around and escape." After hearing this, it kind of freaked me out! Anyways, as usual they couldn't inject the needles in my arms. So, they injected the needles in the back of my hands for 4 days. Getting an injection in the back of my hands is very painful. Once the injections is made in the back of a hand, you can't use the same place. Back of my hands looked terrible after 4days of medical drip injections. I asked my doctor to stop the medical drip injections and finished my medical treatments. I told my doctor about my left knee, but he said it's probably a arthritis from the high fever. It has been 4 months but every time I feel like I have a cold or feverish, I get a serious pain in my left knee. I don't know why and nothing I can do, I put a medical tapings that I brought from Japan to ease the pain and try not to walk around as possible. When I told this to my Korean friends, they all said to me, "That's momusal". "What's momusal?" Momusal is a arthritis from cold and it is widely known to the Koreans as a chronic disease. They say that best way to cure momusal is go to a kneedle chiropractor. Kneedle chiropractic?! Are you kidding?? Since I 'm a coward, I have no nerve to go for a kneedle chiropractice. I am still pretty young, you know. It just makes me a little depressing that my aging process is slowly taking over my body.
I got an e-mail from an unexpected person. When I was a child, I used to live in the U.S., because of my father's job transfer. I used to go to the public elementary school in town where we lived. I got an e-mail from my American teacher who taught me in 5th grade(which is almost about 20 years ago.). He taught me alot. Without him as my teacher, I would never learned how fun reading was and how in depth the histories were. I would like to thank him for everything he taught me then and I was very happy to hear from him.