Coping with a condition here, translated…
The year I’d turned twelve, I’d started blinking, nodding my head, growling uncontrollably, at first, my family thought that I was just acting up, they didn’t pay me any heed, until these behaviors affected my daily life greatly, did my family start to realize, the seriousness of my condition.
My maternal grandmother took me to temple, to offer incense, and to a psychic, the psychic master looked at me, and told her, that I’d been possessed by a monkey spirit, handed my grandmother a couple of slips of paper with weird writings on them, told her to burn them and add them into the water for me to consume, I’d had it for three days, and, my symptoms not only didn’t improve, I’d started having stomach troubles. My father’s coworker came by to visit, saw my condition, and he’d suggested to my parents, that I should be taken to a major hospital to be checked out.
After the doctor diagnosed me, that, was when I learned, that I have “Tourette’s Syndrome”, and, back then, I had to be taken out of school, because of how serious my condition became, as the doctor told me my diagnosis, I’d started crying.
Later on, my family took me to Vancouver, Canada, to the local Chinese doctor, Dr. Chien to be treated. The doctor tapped me on the shoulders said, don’t worry, remember, to keep your moods uplifted, and told me to NOT have any drinks with caffeine in it.
The second month I’d returned to the doctor’s office, Dr. Chien handed me a sword fight novel, told me to read it at home. After I’d started on reading, I couldn’t put it down, and, my family noted how when I was so very focused on reading, some of my weird symptoms would not come out anymore, later on, every time afterwards, my doctor would always have a novel for me as a gift, and, because of this, I’d gotten into the habit of reading books.
It’s been over a decade now, I had returned back to Taiwan, normally, I’d used the medications to control, and, my Tourette’s had been managed, I’m living like the normal people now, this made me so happy, so grateful, just like how when I recalled that loving look that Dr. Chien showed me, I will NEVER forget it! I told myself, from here on out, I must, use Dr. Chien as my role model, to help others, to pass on the kindness he’d shown me!
And so, this, is a man’s long road to recovery, and this also shows, that the symptoms of disorders CAN be managed, but, in order to cure a condition, you may need assistance from medical professionals, and, hard work on your own parts as well.
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