I’ve just returned home after spending a month and a half in hospital. Apparently, my heart has suffered quite a bit of damage, so I must avoid anything that raises my blood pressure. Well, I suppose it’s a fresh start. By the way, is the situation in the Strait of Hormuz having any impact on Indonesia? Japan hasn’t felt any direct effects yet. The Japanese are a rather carefree lot, and very few are aware of the situation in Southeast Asia. Well then, I look forward to your continued support.
Owwww Yoshio,,,, Man I'm wishing you the very best and a speedy recovery, of course.... That just..... sucks..... For now there isn't much impact, yet.... Talk about rising prices because of rising oil prices, if that would happen I think things might get very, very nasty for a while.... But overall....I think Indonesia might come through the coming chaos, world wide, a bit better (or less worse might be a better choice of words) then loads of other places, especially the West.... The thing I fear most, not just for me but for the World, actually, is wide spread famine, engineered famine I should say... Michael Yon, with whom I often agree and often disagree, has been warning about this for years.... He's based in Japan actually, married to a local, and Japan....from what I understand most food stuffs there are imported.... Truth be told.... I even don't know what to believe anymore with all the AI videos, the misinformation, the posting of old war videos etc., I feel that what we're watching is a very expensive theater production, with real deaths on a grand scale.... An American President who has been making billions since he started his second term and who is surrounded by absolute psychopaths.... Iranian Mullahs and military leaders who have their bank accounts in Switzerland and properties in London etc. .... European "leadership" absolutely corrupt and idiotic, like most everywhere else it seems.... I don't really watch any of the big influencers. The Tucker Carlson's, the Candace Owens and all those other types that are raking it in, I don't watch 'em.... "Conspiracy" is big business these days!!! I do follow all this stuff, of course, but I have my own problems, my own worries... Health, so far, is good, which, having lived the insane life I've lived is a bit of a miracle by itself, so I guess I'm grateful for that.... Again, Yoshio, even though you're coming with bad news I'm happy to hear from you, and again, wishing you a speedy recovery!!!
Even though I lost 20 kg and looked like a ghost (before The reaper started taking care of me), I’m fine now—except for the time bomb in my heart. Thank you. That really cheered me up this morning.
Happy to hear that :) Some 24 years ago, after living here, in Indonesia I started getting bad belly aches. Then I started bleeding from my ass and I started losing weight, fast.... That's when me and my wife went to Holland and we got married there. The day we got married my socks were drenched. In blood. Out of my ass.... I didn't wanna go to a doctor before I got married, I wanted her to have a life insurance in my name and all that because I thought I had me the cancer, big time. Almost everybody else thought so too.... So, after loads of tests at the now closed down excellent Tropical Diseases part of the also closed now Harbor Hospital it turned out I had a very, very rare disease called tropical Sprue and I was told that if I would stay in Indonesia (or anywhere in the Tropics) I would have about 2 years to live..... I went from a heavily muscled 80 kilos to 50 kilos in about 3 months and there is just no way to even try to explain the absolute hell I went through for the next 8 years. And after 8 years....suddenly the debilitating belly aches were gone, I started gaining weight, my wife got pregnant and I got the best thing that has ever happened to me, my son.... The specialist in Rotterdam could not explain it... He was treating on average 1 new person per month or so with tropical sprue and the guy who managed the longest to stay in the tropics after me was a Dutch guy in Jakarta, he managed to hold out for 8 months.... I would get emails from researchers from the USA and Germany who heard about me through my specialist with questions, what was I eating etc. ..... The only thing that cures it is a super heavy broad spectrum anti biotic called doxycycline and that stuff destroys your insides but if you stay in the tropics it usually just comes back.... I had to do full treatments with that stuff on a yearly basis.... After I got better I still would get attacks every now and then, just really bad belly aches no blood out of my ass anymore and it could for a week sometimes a month or so but around one and a half year ago I started drinking kefir and that stuff is amazing, haven't had belly aches in ages :) So yeah, I know where you're coming from and I know what second chances are all about.... ( I actually think I'm on my fourth or fifth chance now :) )
The muscles that took so many years to build were gone, never came back, instead I got me a bit of a pot belly... I did actually started training again, not jiu jitsu which was what I was always into but aikido and that went great but I had to quit because of my two neck hernias and other fighting/training injuries from the past.... Ah well....
Acton Mr.HenK I developed a condition known as a leg ulcer (caused by a deterioration in my heart health), and fluid began to leak from my leg that simply wouldn’t stop. I’d been experiencing severe chest tightness since mid-January, but I’d never sought medical attention before, and that may well have been my undoing. There are two sides to everything, and the downside of having been generally healthy all this time has suddenly come to the fore. It’s rather reminiscent of Japan’s situation within the global landscape, isn’t it?
I’ve just returned home after spending a month and a half in hospital. Apparently, my heart has suffered quite a bit of damage, so I must avoid anything that raises my blood pressure. Well, I suppose it’s a fresh start. By the way, is the situation in the Strait of Hormuz having any impact on Indonesia? Japan hasn’t felt any direct effects yet. The Japanese are a rather carefree lot, and very few are aware of the situation in Southeast Asia. Well then, I look forward to your continued support.
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Owwww Yoshio,,,, Man I'm wishing you the very best and a speedy recovery, of course.... That just..... sucks..... For now there isn't much impact, yet.... Talk about rising prices because of rising oil prices, if that would happen I think things might get very, very nasty for a while.... But overall....I think Indonesia might come through the coming chaos, world wide, a bit better (or less worse might be a better choice of words) then loads of other places, especially the West.... The thing I fear most, not just for me but for the World, actually, is wide spread famine, engineered famine I should say... Michael Yon, with whom I often agree and often disagree, has been warning about this for years.... He's based in Japan actually, married to a local, and Japan....from what I understand most food stuffs there are imported.... Truth be told.... I even don't know what to believe anymore with all the AI videos, the misinformation, the posting of old war videos etc., I feel that what we're watching is a very expensive theater production, with real deaths on a grand scale.... An American President who has been making billions since he started his second term and who is surrounded by absolute psychopaths.... Iranian Mullahs and military leaders who have their bank accounts in Switzerland and properties in London etc. .... European "leadership" absolutely corrupt and idiotic, like most everywhere else it seems.... I don't really watch any of the big influencers. The Tucker Carlson's, the Candace Owens and all those other types that are raking it in, I don't watch 'em.... "Conspiracy" is big business these days!!! I do follow all this stuff, of course, but I have my own problems, my own worries... Health, so far, is good, which, having lived the insane life I've lived is a bit of a miracle by itself, so I guess I'm grateful for that.... Again, Yoshio, even though you're coming with bad news I'm happy to hear from you, and again, wishing you a speedy recovery!!!
ReplyDeleteEven though I lost 20 kg and looked like a ghost (before The reaper started taking care of me), I’m fine now—except for the time bomb in my heart. Thank you. That really cheered me up this morning.
ReplyDeleteHappy to hear that :) Some 24 years ago, after living here, in Indonesia I started getting bad belly aches. Then I started bleeding from my ass and I started losing weight, fast.... That's when me and my wife went to Holland and we got married there. The day we got married my socks were drenched. In blood. Out of my ass.... I didn't wanna go to a doctor before I got married, I wanted her to have a life insurance in my name and all that because I thought I had me the cancer, big time. Almost everybody else thought so too.... So, after loads of tests at the now closed down excellent Tropical Diseases part of the also closed now Harbor Hospital it turned out I had a very, very rare disease called tropical Sprue and I was told that if I would stay in Indonesia (or anywhere in the Tropics) I would have about 2 years to live..... I went from a heavily muscled 80 kilos to 50 kilos in about 3 months and there is just no way to even try to explain the absolute hell I went through for the next 8 years. And after 8 years....suddenly the debilitating belly aches were gone, I started gaining weight, my wife got pregnant and I got the best thing that has ever happened to me, my son.... The specialist in Rotterdam could not explain it... He was treating on average 1 new person per month or so with tropical sprue and the guy who managed the longest to stay in the tropics after me was a Dutch guy in Jakarta, he managed to hold out for 8 months.... I would get emails from researchers from the USA and Germany who heard about me through my specialist with questions, what was I eating etc. ..... The only thing that cures it is a super heavy broad spectrum anti biotic called doxycycline and that stuff destroys your insides but if you stay in the tropics it usually just comes back.... I had to do full treatments with that stuff on a yearly basis.... After I got better I still would get attacks every now and then, just really bad belly aches no blood out of my ass anymore and it could for a week sometimes a month or so but around one and a half year ago I started drinking kefir and that stuff is amazing, haven't had belly aches in ages :) So yeah, I know where you're coming from and I know what second chances are all about.... ( I actually think I'm on my fourth or fifth chance now :) )
ReplyDeleteThe muscles that took so many years to build were gone, never came back, instead I got me a bit of a pot belly... I did actually started training again, not jiu jitsu which was what I was always into but aikido and that went great but I had to quit because of my two neck hernias and other fighting/training injuries from the past.... Ah well....
ReplyDeleteActon Mr.HenK I developed a condition known as a leg ulcer (caused by a deterioration in my heart health), and fluid began to leak from my leg that simply wouldn’t stop. I’d been experiencing severe chest tightness since mid-January, but I’d never sought medical attention before, and that may well have been my undoing. There are two sides to everything, and the downside of having been generally healthy all this time has suddenly come to the fore. It’s rather reminiscent of Japan’s situation within the global landscape, isn’t it?
ReplyDeleteWell, I hope you'll get better soon Yoshio! As far as the global landscape goes....who knows what's real and what's not anymore???
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