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2007-03-30T17:53:00.000-07:00

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Serious Counsel for how Diabetics must Live - Massage without Pity

2006-02-09T19:03:00.000-08:00

Diabetics’(1-Type) How to Protect Feet - Massage without Pity

Even in summer with my knees and feet and hands being chilly to numbed, I have suffered for about 10 years. These days, this symptom is growing little by little better. Sore-and-numbness as of hand foot and knee is also one of the complications due to unsmoothness of blood circulation in the internal body because of diabetes.

In the long process of diabetes, there come the occasional cases of blood vessels’ being narrowed or clogged. These blood vessel impedimentary symptoms take place more easily at the spots that are farther from the heart and at the spots where blood vessels are crowded.

The chilly-numb-and-decayingness as of hand foot and knee is the illustration that the capillary vessels and periphery nerves more distant from the heart are ruining. The vulnerable-weakening-deteriorating-and-malfunctioningness as of eye tooth and genital organ is the illustration that the crowded spots of capillary tubes and periphery nerves are ruining.

In my case, pressing, rubbing, bending, pulling, twisting, shaking, beating...the muscles and joints around such as hands, feet, knees, eyes, teeth and penis, the functions of my blood vessels and nerves on the spots may have been better.
To verbalize such practices as pressing, shaking and beating, you may call it a sort of ‘tapotement’

The kneading should not be smooth or moderate like massage, but should be as wild as the mouth opens and the body twists with pain. I have been doing so over all my body not just on knees or feet, sometimes fingering, pressing, rubbing, bending, pulling, twisting, beating...my parts of the whole body as painfully as tears flow.

For example, in order to cure the feet and knees of being chilly and asleep, I must massage all the parts below the waistline such as buttocks, pelves, groin, thighs, knees, calves, anklebone, ankles, toes,..so I can gain help for knees and feet being chilly and calves being stiffening (cramped).

Also, in order to better erectility, I should play fingers not only around the penis but also around every part including navel, hypogastrium, phallus, testicles, perineum, anus, inguen, pelves and the rear waist spots where kidneys are. Rather than fingering, kneading, bending...only the ill spots of right this present, I also need to massage the surrounding spots connected to the ill parts so as to better the efficacy.

I used the easy word ‘finger.’ However, one should work finger with a genuine patience for a long time against the pain. Especially for the regions that are sore, heavy or stiff, you shouldn’t have compassion to finger, rub, bend and beat on them.

Since 2000, I have suffered severely because of the trauma that I was afflicted with, coupled with the disease caused by pent-up rage. On the contrary, I have struggled to survive with my unyielding spirit and even rage called up; I have teased every spot of the body badly each possible time, twisting, pressing, rubbing, rocking, bending, pulling, beating...my whole body.

I would like to reveal that my only wisdom eventually sustained me once again in my life, especially through the repetitive practice of ‘penis-erecting simulation’ beating up the phallus and the waist regions countlessly. (Some overlaps with 6) Repeat Waist Massage in 8. Body Training for Sex)

To sum up diabetics’ struggle against disease in a few lines, seriously diabetic patients are supposed to be in for their each part’s ruining peripheral nerves and capillary vessels and their easily stiffening phenomenon of muscles and joints as well as their more ruining feet as time passes.

They might feel temporarily improving while one treats news symptoms that come up numerously like deforming and missing gum, weakening eyesight or blindness, cold limbs and sleeping hands and feet, impaired knee joints, impotence, itchy skin and many others. Yet, with time passing, they will go still worse and worse.

Even if growing to ruin is a fixed fact, the more earnestly a patient lives and treats himself or herself, ‘the longer’ he or she can extend the deteriorating period. This is the essence of this book.

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How a Diabetic should Self-Manage - Protect Knees

2006-02-09T18:56:00.000-08:00

Diabetics’(1-Type) How to Protect Feet - Protect Knees

You would find some motion pictures in my homepage www.mryoum.com and 2~3 of them where I dance with knee protectors on.

While especially hands feet shoulders in my whole body are cold and chilly in the middle of summer, the other parts are so full of fever that I have to frequently sleep without clothes or bedclothes.

The cold symptom of knee hand and foot is from 1992. Because of chilly knees’ being worse and worse due to the sleeping practice that I don’t use bedclothes in bed, I wear knee protectors for the whole year. I have to sleep on the warm electric blanket for more than 11 months in the whole year except few scorching-hot tropical summer nights.

I sleep, with windows open, with an electric fan on but the remote control by the pillow, with knee protectors on the knees, with loose socks at times, and with no clothes above knees for a few months of year.

The more I have to use indoor heating and an electric blanket and bedclothes, the easier it is to protect the knee and other joints. Contrary to expectation, it is harder in deeper and deeper summer because of the living practices including air conditioning, electric fanning, immersing the body in the lukewarm, naked sleeping.

Like some other persons, I tried to sleep without an electric blanket a few times. Any troublesome morning awaited me with my whole sore body including waist, backbone, kidneys, as well as knees because I had to sleep curled up during the night.

With my body condition, I’ve got no choice but to sleep like the present practice.

(It is 2002~2003 that I wrote this book.
Since 2004 when my kidneys and eyes got more vulnerable and worse, I even haven’t been able to use an electric blanket so that I might avoid the symptom of heat’s coming only up the upper body. After 2004, I sleep between the cotton-padded quilts on the bed mattress instead of an electric blanket or cushion. In the seasons other than 2~3 summer seasons, I sleep in winter underwear throughout the whole year.

I use ‘warmth’ of cotton wool instead of an electric blanket for the sake of warm sleep. I wear winter underwear all year round for the protection of my joints - of course, I wear thin one in early spring and summer and early autumn.

As time goes by, however, the body’s going worse and worse is the trait of diabetes and is the horrible point of ‘progressive chronic disease.’)

If there are any, if not diabetic, persons who complain of the symptoms like “Knees feel like a cold wind inside; Knees are chilly; Knees are sore;..,” then I would like to suggest you wear knee protectors. For, the sore knees get much alleviated by virtue of their role of covering your knees warm.

But one note is, one need be mindful that the knee protectors and socks worn during your sleep must be loose so that your legs and feet’s being swollen be avoided. If you continue to wear even in your sleep the tight ones you wore during daytime, you might get your legs and feet swollen due to lack of blood circulation.
In my case, I differentiate daytime knee protectors and socks from nighttime ones.

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Advice on Diabetes How to Protect Feet - Walk like Model into Life

2006-02-09T18:42:00.000-08:00

Diabetics’(1-Type) How to Protect Feet - Walk like Model into Life

If I have injected mycillin about the wounded spots with a syringe needle, I cannot help using and washing my feet in daily life.

Because of this particularity of the foot, the wound doesn’t easily heal up.

Like I mentioned, I have suffered a lot due to the foot from 1991 to ’95.

Covered with messy blood that turned out from the sore wound on the rear foot, every shoe heel was dyed with oozy waters and blood all year around.

I carried antibiotic cream, alcohol, pincers, adhesive plaster, gauze, cotton fluff, and the like in my bag. Whenever the wound was serious, I had to renew the gauze where pus or blood was stained at least once in the school.

Walling with heels up is what I discovered after years of this suffering.

It is almost like a fashion model’s walking on the stage, if one walks to a light rhythm with his heels and spine straight up.

At first, I could walk only 2~3 minutes, resting for a moment, then walking over again. By and by, I grew so accustomed to it that I could walk on tiptoe with only a few pauses for 30 minutes. This means I have got as strong in leg muscles, in a sense.

Since introducing this manner to my life after 4~5 years of foot suffering, I have the trouble healed up in just a few months.

Still, I use this manner if there is any blister on the heel or toe.

The amount of walking by average men without special walking is about 30~60 minutes a day.

I connect my dance motions with heels up if possible, maintaining a certain amount of walking a day, dancing lightly to music in the house if not walking outdoors.

Even when it is hard to walk in the outdoors, I somehow try to control my condition, taking a light walking exercise to music around an electric fan in the living room for about 30~40 minutes.

There are few practices that are as moderate to the body and as beneficial to the joints and muscles as light dancing.

The women who wish ‘slender bodyline’ may as well take after this practice for the management of their body.

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Diabetics’ How to Protect Feet - Wear Comfortable Shoes

2006-02-09T18:32:00.000-08:00

Advice on Diabetes - Wear Comfortable Shoes

Since 1990 when I got frequent blisters and got tardily cured once wounded and cold limbs went worse, it has become very difficult which shoes for me to choose.

In 1991~95 when I suffered from my feet wounds, it was fur shoes gotten from a native market that I wore from November to April.
Of all the many shoes I wore for over 40 years, there were no shoes more comfortable than fur shoes.

Because of my body condition that I had to take clothes off if I was exposed to sunshine even amid the coldest winter, I would take a walk with my pet dog by the side, with sunglasses over the eyes, with a mask over the mouth, with gloves on the hands, with fur shoes on the feet, with thin and light clothes over the upper body, with cotton-padded pants or sportswear on the lower body,..up to March or mid-April.

On account of this outfit, I was sometimes recognized as ‘someone strange, some queer, or someone crazy...’ whichever place I lived. I was sometimes even stopped by a patrolman for a check. Once, I was stopped for a check right in front of the gate as soon as I was out of my house.
Despite there being nothing better than this outfit for my body condition, I have been treated as a queer guy or strange person at times. But if there are any people who are suffering from similar symptoms to mine, I would like to encourage you should ‘live confidently’ with sunglasses over your eyes, with a mask over your mouth, with gloves on your hands, with seemingly an awkward set of clothes on your body, and with even fur shoes on your feet, no matter how ill others may speak of you.

Years ago, I had a chance to buy a certain pair of shoes during bargain sale at a village general store. The shoes were so highly comfortable that I bought 7 pairs more the next day. On the instant spot, I got the words ‘crazy guy’ from my family members. I bought shoes several times more afterwards. But there has been nothing as comfortable as those shoes, except for fur shoes.
For a few years each winter season I wore fur shoes, and then comfortable ones among mountain climbing boots. Other seasons until 2003 I wore some more pairs of shoes I got from other places and the 8 pairs of shoes I got at a swoop from a village general store early 1998.

With the design ‘I will put them on in even 5 or 10 years’ if you find the shoes comfortable on your feet (this greed is desirable one), you should certainly buy them beforehand even on credit card so that they may be beneficial to later good use.

What makes me really mad and steamed about is, people tend to ignore the ways I recommend. It gives me no interest if people listened to what I recommend, but on the other side my self-respect feels as hurt as my recommendation is ignored.

If a famous doctor had said what I advise at an public lecture in TV, or if a priest of a big well-famed church had said what I advise, he might have received all the compliments that he is so considerate, so compassionate, so well-informed, so graceful,...
While my words who was treated as an odd ball or a crazy guy have been recognized as any nonsense bowwow that a rabid dog was barking.

The point is, in not long years I heard the following news that some of them who ignored what I advised had been sent to the hospital; their toes had been cut off; and their eyes had been impaired.

Whenever I was told those kinds of news, I would spit out the following stuff to myself:
“You live as you please and I as I please, while I am hurt by my pride and you damaged by your own careless life!”

Who said them is more appreciated than the importance of the words themselves in man’s society.
This is one’s social status and his name value.

My words are sometimes disregarded by my family members. In my this precarious standing, I opened my Internet homepage to ‘attribute more significant meaning to my words.’ Further on, I have been even working on books as a last resort.

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The ‘Diabetic Life’- How to Protect Feet

2006-02-09T18:07:00.000-08:00

About Diabetes - How to Protect Feet

The foot!

It had been the body part that was easiest to be ignored when I was in good health. However, growing to have shots of insulin for longer and longer time, I run into the situation of being more and more concerned about feet. For diabetic patients, the ‘situation that needs concern about the feet’ means to have had abnormality or something wrong in the feet.

In the regular case of people who are healthy, they don’t develop any special abnormality in the feet even if they do exercise a few hours per time as in walking, running, hiking on the mountain,..according to the limits of their physical strength.
And if they feel tiredness in their feet(legs), they need nothing but soft foot care like taking a bath in warm water and massaging theirs. Before any particular problem developed, the normal feet had been managed and maintained well, by only being washed decently in a shower or a bath.

However, as one remains a chronic diabetic, things go different.

In my case, I usually go out for a walk an hour at a time. If I walk in mere slightly uncomfortable shoes, I easily get a blister.

It is a necessity to take a certain amount of walking as a measure of blood sugar regulation for other diabetic patients as well as me. The problem is, if I walk the next day in the condition of blistered feet, the blister goes bigger than the previous day. The following day, the wound has already gone infected and begins festering. And so on, this vicious circle repeats itself.

Along with this vicious circle, my heart and eyes too have gone bad. As compared with the amount of walking 5~10 years ago, the walking hours has decreased a lot.
There are a number of times when I have to give up walking itself because of the eyes that need avoidance of light these days.

Instead, I try to regulate blood sugar and relieve eye strain even by taking more baths and increasing the time of dancing lightly in the house.

Now, even changing to new shoes a few times a year makes me irritated. Whenever I change into new shoes, I go into failure more than 50%. If I think I’ve chosen more comfortable ones, the shoes tend to cause blister on the feet if I walk around in the shoes one day or two.

The reality of diabetics insulin-shot for a long time is, they should keep a certain load of walking or strolling.

The people who carry progressive chronic illnesses must live their lives radically different from those life-comfortable people who may do if they want or don’t have to do if they don’t want.

Because of too frequent missing toenails and blisters since a few years ago, I now wear sneakers or casual shoes as often as possible. I try to wear not only shoes but also all others within my best comfortableness.

I have been very nervous about my feet since the 1980s, 10 years after insulin administration, which I didn’t care when it was good.

A little more walking or new shoes, and the next day I tend to get a blister. A few days afterwards, I get more chances of dark-turned blister or already pus. If the blister part is on a toe or under a toenail, the toenail gets missing in a month or two.

My 9~10 left big toenails and 5~6 right big toenails were lost since 1989. My left big toenail is presently malformed. Though ill-shapen, I am thankful for the big toenail’s having still been newly coming out. Because of having been insulin-shot for 26 years into the body so peculiar from the beginning, I feel so precious of and so attached to each and every part of the body - “from hair to toe”

It is not a laughing matter.

Because of the body fever, hairs fall off; because of skin trouble, the scalp keeps breaking out in sore boils; and toenails continue missing countlessly. At this progress of time, one gets to feel any growing sense of crisis. Before going to total destruction, one must be concerned about and manage each and every part of the body, so that he may keep his remaining body condition any longer.

This ‘preventive measure’ means to manage the body with care before going to complete ruin of the body.
For diabetics, ‘preventive’ management of the body is most important.

For years of 1991~95, I had been in much trouble because of my foot. (This story partly overlaps with the contents of ‘the 45-year-old Image’ the 3rd volume of the ‘Surviving Without Dying’ series.)

At the time, I would often drink a glass of wine and take a bath and then withdraw blood after pricking the acupunctural spots around both big toenails with a syringe needle.

If it aches and turns out drops of dark-red blood while pricking, it makes me feel at ease. If it neither is painful nor forms any blood even though I pricked, it makes me contrarily feel my bosom fallen down.

It is natural that the acupunctural spot should be very hurtful and be bleeding if it is pricked right around the fingernail or toenail with a needle of syringe.

Yet, if it doesn’t ache or bleed, then what does this mean?
It means that peripheral nerves and capillary blood vessels are ruined as much, or they have been falling into ruin.

The seriously diabetic need to test the saying ‘not hurting is dreadful!’

Now in 10 years, I’ve even stopped this act.

Everything has its own time. It is important to be concerned about tests of the body part and to keep prevention somehow before it goes to complete ruin. If it’s already gone to ruin, one falls into the situation that he has no option but to maintain only the status quo of the remaining ruined function.

Prevention before irrevocable state of devastation, this is the best policy.

The present foot of mine means to have already passed the time of checking up sensitively how my foot function was deteriorating as compared with 10 years ago.
My left foot less ached and less bled when I pricked the acupunctural spots around both big toenails with a portable syringe needle. The left toenail was missing two times as often as well. Not only toenails but also the overall functions of my left body tend to be a little bit worse than the right.

Because I don’t want anywhere any part of my body to be lost or be ruined until the end, I have been mobilizing every way I can on my own.

I have been suffering sometimes from my feet and legs. Yet by virtue of my will and wisdom to protect each and every corner of my body, I have still been ‘healing managing and maintaining’ myself on my own with no fingernail no toenail and no teeth missing.

Some manners I have been trying for the management of my feet are as follows:

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General Council about Eye Care of Diabetics How to Protect Eyes - Avoid Artificial Lighting!

2006-01-22T17:32:00.000-08:00

Advice on Serious Diabetic Patients - Avoid Artificial Lighting!

There is nothing as difficult as to keep ‘avoiding artificial lighting’ in modern people’s living.

If one looks at modern people’s living, they are as depending on lights as if it is right to say they are living in the life pattern of relying on lights. We cannot ignore the lights reflecting from all the things in everyday living. To diabetics whose eyes have been ruining due to diabetes, reflective lights might be a more fatal blow.
The more civilized societies we are, the harder environments we are in for for our eyes to be comfortable either day or night.

Morning break, washroom, TV or computer, living room, office room, store, street back from the office, street lamp, cars’ lights, street lighting within the apartment-house complex, light leaking from the front house’s window,... an place is related to light.

I have said that 26 years passed since the first being insulin-shot at the age of 17.

In random words, if a man has 26 years passed since first being insulin-shot at the age of 50~60, he might be worried less about his eyesight because he is already right before death.
Yet in the case of being under 20 years old like me, even if he has endured for about 30~40 years, he would be by now around 50 years old (representative Type-I diabetes or childhood diabetes).

Speaking of a young patient who suffers childhood diabetes, even if he should have been insulin-administered for 30 years, he would be only about 40 years old then. Such 30, 40 or 50-year-old is the age in which one should be the most passionate in the life.

If getting their eyes blind and other parts of their body ruined in the middle of young social ages, these people usually cannot help living as outsiders in the societies they belong to.

Emptiness, bewilderment, frustration, sense of being betrayed, resentment,...of the 30, 40, 50-year-old persons who have lost their some functions of the body, at least these lost emotions that patients themselves suffer are hard to be indemnified for with anything.

Most 30, 40, 50-year-old persons are family members, like husband or wife or parents for their children in the body of a family. If any one of family members starts to have a life ruined due to frustration, resentment, pent-up anger, feeling of despair,... the arrangement and wellbeing of their whole family will be swayed and impaired from then on.

Taking this into deep consideration, the patient must acknowledge that he is obliged to take care of himself in the sense that he is not only himself but also ‘one of the family members.’

I too have been living with the body and eyes that suffered from lights since 1977, while I have been steadily taking extreme care of my eyes since 1990. In the meantime, I can frankly say that I still feel ‘powerless’ with regard to the ‘eyesight that goes bad to worse.’

Like I mentioned, I can urinate myself without light when I go to restroom at dawn.
There are many lights around like indicators of household electric appliances at each corner of house, light from the neighboring house window, all kinds of reflective lights to be encountered from the morning, ceaseless reflective lights from the building windows around, intense headlights of cars coming and going on the road,...

If I don’t turn on any light urinating myself, this doesn’t mean I can prevent every light from coming in.For, at each turn of eyes, I cannot avoid the lights from all around.

Even though I engage in a strenuous struggle in the life, there are both the things that I can deal with and the things that I cannot. In most cases, this issue of ‘light’ cannot be solved alone.

There have been fewer and fewer things that can be solved alone, which makes me remain more and more frustrated.

What I now need to change is to keep away from my TV-watching habit. My watching TV is a kind of my habitual practice to which I have been accustomed along with my marriage, divorce and nearly 4 years of my distressful life. By virtue of living without TV before my marriage, watching TV had been no serious issue for me. But this my TV-watching habit I have been accustomed to in less than 4 years is causing any bad influence on my eyes.

I have been watching TV 5~6 hours a day right after divorce, 3~4 hours 2001, about 2 hours in the first half 2002 and 30~60 minutes a day in 2003.

If my eyes are hurt, I don’t watch TV at all. But whenever I find my hands reaching the TV remote control, I often feel disappointed at my lack of self-restraint.
Yet because of such conditions as computer illiteracy, no driving a car, no watching newspaper, wearing sunglasses, regular walk on the trail and going to bed by 8~9 o’clock or 10 at the latest, I still have my eyes protected. But I am not totally confident that I will be able to ‘continue to see the world until I die’ as I desire.

These conditions of mine wouldn’t be those that are shared by all diabetics.

The ways I chose are not the best ones.

I just wish other patients too do all their best they can to protect their eyes like I mobilized all the ways I could to manage my body and eyes. Diabetic patients who have to live for a few more decades should at least ready for these efforts to keep sight of ‘this beautiful world’ until the end.

Particularly for young patients with 40~50-years-or-more struggle against disease or very young childhood diabetics, they must keep in mind that they absolutely need the manners of living different than others so that they can completely reach their life destination where they themselves decided upon.

I wish every diabetic continues to say the saying over and over again until he dies, “If my body is ten, my eyes are nine of all.”

God Bless you!!

Bible says, there is nothing new under the sun. But I pray you ever keep sight of this beautiful world ‘under the sun.’

Though it was from chapter one in the book of Ecclesiastes, this is a prayer by ‘minister Wailing Freeman Youm Sangmyoung.’

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Serious Counsel for how Diabetics must Live - Use Ice Pack!

2006-01-22T17:25:00.000-08:00

Diabetics’(1-Type) Eye Care - Use Ice Pack!

Recent days, I often had bloodshot eyes and felt my eyes heavy, allergic, sore and painful due to eye fever. In this situation, there is a way to lower the fever in the eyes through a small ice pack. In this situation, I get blurry eyesight and even hate to open eyes. If I remain still or in bed because of all annoyance, my eye capillary vessels could get so injured that the condition of eyes might get worse and worse.
Of course, for one or two times or for a short time you might not find any deadly symptom. Later, however, you might face a disaster(?).

Don’t rub it with hands even if it’s stuffy and itchy, please!

The more you rub the bloodshot sore eyes with hands, the harder your capillary vessels gets so injured that your eyes go weaker and worse. If hurt and itchy to the point of no bearing, you should be putting a finger under the eyebrow or putting an ice pack around the eyes while after while.

In summer, I drink green tea as a beverage. If I put 4~5 teabags of green tea at once into a water bottle and eat after keeping it in the refrigerator for about a day, then it tastes of an excellent green tea. I bring out the green tea bags before drinking the steeped green tea and wrap them round with vinyl and freeze it in the deep-freezer, or I freeze the wet towel wrapped with vinyl. And then I message my eye brims coldly with the green teabags or wet towels.

I have prepared and used some different-size bundles of green teabags and wet towels. Whenever I have a cold massage if my eyes feel stuffy, smart, stung or bloodshot symptoms, the stuffy or painful symptoms become much relieved.

If one freezes and uses green tea bags or wet towels after wrapping them with 2~3 folds of vinyl wraps, it is less burdensome than touching ice directly on the skin and is more comfortable to use.

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Diabetics’(1-Type) Eye Care - Use Saline Solution

2006-01-22T16:58:00.000-08:00

Advice on Diabetes - Use Saline Solution

There is a theory that using saline solution often is not good to the eye. But in my case, I tend to use the saline solution more often.

Whenever I have an eye fever or after I take a bath, I rinse my eyes with saline solution. Not just one drop or two, I put it in repetitive times as many as for saline solution to run down the cheeks. Usually more than a time a day, I do. (Since 2004, I have been striving not to lose my eyesight by administering less-stimulative eye lotion a few times a day in place of diminishing the times of using saline solution.)

To be frank, there is no better medicine than naturally-runny tears.
Even though I wish to have runny eyes, it is not easy to have tears whether due to age or lack of sensibility. As the last resort, there have been times when I have my eyes runny depending upon listening to some touching stories introduced briefly on the radio or watching some astounding life stories by subject persons of the KBS TV program ‘Request of Love.’ Occasionally, shedding tears may be the best restorative in body health – especially managing eyes - as well as in mental health.

Though I often use the expression ‘as time goes by,’ my body function is growing more and more vulnerable, degenerative, weakening, and worse as time goes by. Eyes are where it is much easier to be growing vulnerable, degenerative, weakening and worse, compared with other parts of the body.

These days, even the volatile smell in each corner of a construction site is causing my eyes and skin and throat to be hurt and smart.
Even the fabric softener I use washing is hurting my eyes.

There are many cases that the fabric softener causes other diabetic patients to have already gone blind before they could feel the symptom of even their eyes as well as skin being smart, stinging or hurt. These days, I use the baby fabric softener that is used for washing diapers or the fabric softener for delicate skin.

Using the fabric softener, I take the sequence of washing clothes in a different way. In usual homes, they use fabric softener in the last turn while washing clothes. But in my case (since 2002), by putting fabric softener and a moderate amount of vinegar at once right before the last turn, I rinse after rinse.

Putting some vinegar in while rinsing is for the sake of using the ‘neutralization’ of vinegar to neutralize toxic detergent. One more rinsing after rinsing after putting fabric softener and vinegar in is one of the ways to avoid stimulative eyes by minimizing bad smell of fabric softener and to protect skin by minimizing the remaining amount of detergent and fabric softener in the washed clothes.
If my eyesight and skin grow more vulnerable, weaker and worse than now, then I think I should use no detergent washing machine even if oil dirt might be left over in washed clothes.

The reality is, even the diabetics who don’t watch books and newspapers because of their more vulnerable, weaker, sorer and more painful eyes are exposed to living their lives that are subject to the lights like TV and computer, cars, fluorescent lamp and others.

As eyesight goes seriously weaker in later time, opening the eyes itself day or night is already all stimulation. For the sake of the eyes tired due to all day stimulation, I wish patients would look for how to alleviate theirs in their own ways.

Today’s idleness of mine might go past the point of no return forever. Keep in mind that this applies to not only seriously ill Type-I diabetics but also to entire diabetics.

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Diabetics’(1-Type) Eye Care - Make the Lower Body Higher!

2006-01-22T16:44:00.000-08:00

Advice on Diabetics’(1-Type) Eye Care -Make the Lower Body Higher!

As weather grows warmer, I am in the situation that I can hardly dance even the evening dance right before sleeping. In summer season, I should get up around 5~6 o’clock at dawn and I should sleep earlier than 8~9 o’clock. Day after day in summer is so much difficult to spend.
Even in a less troubled day, it is common for me to go to bed within 1~2 hours after sunset so as to avoid lights. It is easy to understand these sections of mine if you associate with the rural life 50~100 years ago.

In summer, I would often think in bed for 1~2 hours in the state that the angle from my buttocks to feet was raised by using a pillow or some cushions. (While sleeping, I would usually get my body turned into normal sleeping position.)
Even looking at a book in the morning, there are many times when I raise my lower body with cushions under the buttocks and legs or with feet on the wall. After heightening the angle of the lower body through cushions, there are times when I spend 1 hour or so with my eyes focused on the page with one hand on a book, while fingering some massage-required parts of the body with the other hand.

In order to take the position for eyes to be not higher than a heart, there are times when I read books in the ‘pose of four-legged animals’ with my legs and knees raised in L shape on the mattress and with my arms stretched or my elbows on the bottom.
I have little idea how much these positions of mine work medically. But it is sure that my eyes feel a little cooler if I take the position of ‘lower head and higher limbs.’ In my guessing, this mode too seems related to blood circulation around eyes.

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General Council about Eye Care of Diabetics(1-Type) - How to Protect Eyes

2005-10-31T16:48:00.000-08:00

Referential Examples for Diabetics’(1-Type) Eye Care - Sunglasses

From a certain point on, if you begin to get a sense of resistance to light, then sunglasses is a must. In the case of mine, as time goes by, it is becoming a necessity even indoors.

Since a ‘progressive disease’ is the first property of diabetes, my eyesight is also often fluctuating. As my eyesight is delicately fluctuating, so I am in the situation of often changing my sunglasses(color sunglasses with a degree).

For reference, for those who fear their eyes might go worse whenever they see a book, If I write down what is the order of tiring and mal-affecting our eyes:

It is the order of ... ‘book < newspaper or magazine < TV < computer screen < headlight from the opposite at night < ....

You cannot apply all the worldly lights to this simple formula, but this formula is somewhat valid, by arranging and dividing the lights we often see around.
For example, such lighting as the car headlight from the opposite at night and the psychic light in the night club hurts our eyes at a similar intensity of illumination.

If any person who keeps off from books for fear of their eyes watches newspapers and TV and drives a car, this behavior is that their ‘methodology’ of protecting their eyes is wrong. Even if he uses the best safety glasses, it could stand to stimulate his eyes.

“But how on earth can you live without reading newspapers or small-lettered books or magazines, without watching TV and computer, and without diving a car?” you don’t have to pick at me by saying.

Without my reaching no answer fit for this situation of mine, I too get angry at myself and am living even ‘to a point of wild mental derangement.’ Just, I was informative of what were the factors that caused the eyes to go worse, for the sake of managing seriously diabetic patients’ eye care.

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Diabetic Life - Make Eye Temperature Lower before Sleep!

2005-10-31T16:43:00.000-08:00

Advice on Diabetes - Make Eye Temperature Lower before Sleep!

Among diabetics, there are persons whose body temperature go up high or especially go up into the eyes and get their eyes bloodshot or hurt. Then, they are strongly advised to first lower their eye temperature by moving their bodies before going to bed.

In the case of mine, although the symptom of heat getting up into my eyes continues for 12 months a year, the symptom is serious especially between October and March. In order to lower the heat of the body and eyes, there are many times that I spend time with windows a little open even in winter.

The air to be cool and clean!
The floor to be worm!

Yet, this sleeping condition doesn’t solve the already reddened and sore eyes.

If I introduce the ways I can do easily, it is: After smoothening the blood circulation by rubbing the muscles on the face with hands and then after lowering the eye fever by massaging softly the space around the eyes, there is many a time when I play dances in the state where the lights around are off, so that the stiffness of my reddened and sore eyes may be eased.
(When I take a look at news on TV, there are many times when I just hear the news without watching the screen. And when I dance so as to lower the heat of the eyes, there are many times when I rely only upon the light coming out of the TV for the sake of the whole lighting.) Even when I dance, in order to lower the heat of the upper body, I ease my body softly for about 30 minutes ‘in a state as half-naked’ as I could.

If I introduce any exercise you can do lightly in a narrow space without getting bored before going to bed during more than half amount among 365 days a year, I would like to say there is nothing more than soft dancing that brings model’s walking together.
(Anyone who might have seen my dance motions and my physique through the motion pictures on my homepage will be quick to understand, I guess!)

In order to protect my joints, I have to live keeping the floor warm. If I live in an apartment, this condition is impossible to keep. So I turn on the electric blanket for more than about 11 months out of a year. (The writings in the 1st edition are the ones about my bodily conditions till the year 2003. From the year 2004 where my kidneys and eyes got more vulnerable and weaker, I was unable to use an electric blanket or electric cushion or the like. These are the characteristics of a ‘progressive chronic disease’ and the dreadful points of diabetes.)

Yet, as time goes by, because the heat of electric blanket that I use for the joints and muscles even affects my eyes and kidneys, I am turning into the body that is unable to use even electric appliances at my will. Due to the heat coming from electric appliances, I every now and then experience the symptom that the functions of the eyes and kidneys are going worse.

Even though I many times used the expression, ‘as time goes by,’ I have no other choice yet, so that I could let other diabetics and their families understand what things are.

Because the other body parts like eyes, kidneys, heart,..too go more vulnerable, weaker, worse and more ruined as time goes by, it is often that there are a side affect or other complications coming up anew this year in the parts where there had been no special problems until last year - even in the same living condition as last year.

In order to let others know of how diabetes is that makes the body change as seriously as cruel, I use the expression ‘time’ more often than not.

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Advice on Diabetes - Watch over Calorie!

2005-10-30T23:21:00.000-08:00

Serious Counsel for how Diabetics must Live - Watch over Calorie!

From 2002 when I had been insulin-injected for 25 years, it was hard for me to eat hot food in summer. Since 2003, I can hardly eat. In summer where the body get heated even in a still position, the action of eating itself and being forced to move to eat are already a factor that makes heat break out.

What is important is, this heat is affecting up to the eyes and kidneys. (Part of contents overlap with ‘What to Eat.’)

Most of the foods that are called ‘virility-aiding food’ in Korea are the hot stew broth species as you see in dog soup, chicken stew with ginseng, ox bone stew, rib stew, peppery fish soup, loach stew.., or are the ‘grilling species’ which they burn and eat over a hot gridiron as you see in beef rib, poke rib, roasted eel,...
And besides ‘stew broth kind’ or ‘grilling meat kind,’ most of the foods regarded as virility-aiding dishes are mostly ‘calorie masses’ that contain already high calorie.

Here, if I add some special lecture on sitology and dietetics and biology, there is some amount of calorie emitting in the process that the incoming food turns into the calorie needed for the body.

Think!
The sultry weather in your motionless, your way of eating that is so hot and your place of eating that is in front of so hot cooking utensils(grill pan or chowder stew) that it gets even more hotter, and the calorie mass you’ve eaten at a time on the pretext of strengthening your body,... So it is common sense that your body will naturally be much heated in those conditions.

The body heat formed in this situation affects the eyes and the kidneys where your capillary vessels and peripheral nerves are concentrated, (especially glomeruli which are masses of long and narrow capillary vessels in the kidneys.)
- These parts are my own theory which I have learned myself through 26 years’ fighting with my body and is one piece of my own wisdom I have myself, I think. (About this part, I have detailed my thinking more in ‘Part II: 2. Help Me!’)

Diabetes-related books teach patients to manage their health through well-balanced nutritive food. Especially in more hot summer where their body is more prone to bend due to sultry temperature, I’d like to advise you to take more enough nourishment.

But this is the theory that applies to early-stage diabetics, only until when they have no problem in their kidneys and eyes.
For the patients who already have their eyes and kidneys gone worst or going worst, they should not care only for well-balanced calorie and nutritive food too much in their choosing what to eat during a few summer months, but I’d like to advice that they should rather ‘eat lightly and live lightly’ by considering their inner heat when the food is taken into their bodies.

If the time comes when you kidneys and eyes are hypersensitive to high temperature, one should eat small and live lightly, so that one can lengthen the function of their kidneys and eyes any longer.

Not only to the kidney-troubled patients arisen from complications of diabetes, but also to the kidney-troubled ones who have nothing to do with diabetes, I think, what I express as the ‘theory of how inner heat affects the eyes and kidneys‘ or the ‘theory of heat that influences the eyes and kidneys’ applies enough.

- These parts are not the same as the existing common sense on diabetes. These are my only theories different from others.

If some day my writings come to light in the world, I hope academic circles and doctors might not attack or oppress my theories for no reason just by the reason that ‘I am not a doctor.’
Considering the diabetes that has changed patients’ bodies without ceasing, they should rather take this chance and do further researches for diabetes. This is helpful for the patients who are suffering from the same symptoms as mine.

All the patients, especially the patients suffering from kidney-related troubles must keep in mind that it is stopping damaging their kidneys to ‘eat under average rather than too sufficiently.’

This same holds true in not only food but also sex and workout.
We must remember in our lives that ‘overflowingness is worse than scarceness to the body.’

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About Diabetes - Referential Examples for Diabetics’(1-Type) Eye Care

2005-09-29T21:45:00.000-07:00

How to Protect Eyes - Referential Examples for Diabetics’(1-Type) Eye Care

The exclamation “What a beautiful world I see!” is only possible when you have your own eyes.

I have been living with an extreme fright about eyes.

It is natural that even normal people without diabetes as well go worse as time goes farther. More serious thing is, instead of developing gradually like normal persons as time goes by, there are rather quite a few cases when the visual impairment syndrome for diabetics could happen too unexpectedly without notification and could ruin the diabetic patients miserably abruptly in a short passage up to ‘diabetic vision impairedness’ or ‘total blindness.’

One of the ends of diabetic patients is, there are quite a few cases of visional impairment or handicap due to such as diabetes retinal hemorrhage. Since I knew this information rather early, I have been protecting my vision in sunglasses unyieldingly and perseveringly however hard I get faultfinding or name calling from the neighbors (e.g. my native village, the town where my subcounty government works, church, seminary, pastor circles,...) since 1990.
Once in a while, I would even be treated as a suspicious man and be ordered to stop for a check by patrolmen. All the same, I have been made it a rule to wear sunglasses.

As some clinical history gets accumulated after diabetes’ outbreak, there come many a time when they feel sense of resistance against not only sunlight but also every kind of light.
From then on, your wearing sunglasses is very necessary.

You don’t get you body parts ruined in a day because of the complications due to diabetes.
Before the parts go to the worst, they become more tender, weaker and worse; then they are to get ruined. The diabetics must know how to treat those symptoms that are more tender, weaker and worse, well before their body parts go into the worst situation. Wearing sunglasses is also one of the manners to lengthen the period when your eyes are getting more tender, weaker and worse.

While my living is by the help of light, my current living pattern is that I stand to ‘dislike the light, avoid the light and run away from the light.’
In order avoid the artificial lights to protect my eyesight that goes poorer, I go to bed between 9 and 10. (I have been to bed between 8 and 9 since 2004.)
On days when my body is tired and my eyes are sore, I occasionally sleep before 8. Besides, if possible I try keeping out of lighting in the house, in the church or in whatever space I am in.

When I go to seminary and until 97~98 after graduation, I had made it a habit to read the Bible by the pillow for 30 minutes a day as soon as waking up in the morning.
But in just 5~6 years, this became impossible.
From 2002, I wasn’t able to read or write until my body reaches the best condition by moving 2~3 hours or more after getting up in bed.
It is hard to write or read under any light inside the room. Accumulated in the body has been my heart’s stress that I had to suffer in last 4 years. So, the most affected among them have been especially my eyes and kidneys where peripheral nerves and capillary vessels are concentrated. Even as compared with last year, my eyesight has been more weakening and failing, I can feel.

The ‘weakening’ and ‘failing’ eyesight here is yet different from fatal lose of eyesight.
Diabetics’ impaired eyesight and so their complete lost sense of perception means their eyes are collapsing beyond the phase of weakening. Whereas the eyes’ feeling sore, painful, prickly and smarting to any certain light or subtle stimulus and having a weakening sense of perception like I do means that the eyes are in the process of becoming vulnerable, weakening and failing.

What is important is, you should take the best care of your body from the very beginning of weakening so as to prevent your vision from failing and ruining.
Because being indifferent to the symptoms of eyes growing vulnerable and weakening could possibly cause you to get the loss of eyesight.

My intention that ‘our country’s people are ignorant of diabetes’ is, although many persons (including some of doctors) know patients might easily lose their eyesight due to diabetes, so that I may indicate they are ignorant of and indifferent to the fact that diabetics’ eyes get worse, impaired and blind in the process of eyes’ vulnerableness and weakening.

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General Council about Eye Care of Diabetics(1-Type)

2005-09-29T21:33:00.000-07:00

How to Protect Eyes - General Council about Eye Care of Diabetics(1-Type)

Desiring to ‘see the world beautiful’ to the point of my death(!), I strive to start the morning in the state of no artificial lighting whether in winter or in summer.

Early morning when I go to the washroom, I as good as settle my calling of nature roughly(!) by a rough guess(?) without any light on. From fall 2003 on, to prevent the eyesight from going worse to worst, I even use a ‘urine pot’ to disallow turning lights on at night.
This much, I now manage my eyesight.

If you start your daily routine under a strong light at the first opening of your eyes in the morning in the state of already vulnerable and weakening eyes, then it could stimulate your poor eyes much more.
For this reason, my life style of now is that my time getting up in the morning is also different season by season.

In an eye test of now, both my eyes will be about 0.3~0.5.
(My eyesight is different depending on my physical condition.)
Yet it is hard for me to concentrate my vision for more than an hour. On a book that is printed bigger, I can keep watching it up to about a hour, but on a book that is printed smaller or glittery like ‘coated paper,’ I can hardly keep watching it for more than 20 years.
Writing is also hard to keep an hour a time.
Watching TV is hard to do an hour a time; looking at computer screen is hard for more than 20~30 minutes.

After the day when I forced myself into stretching the duration of watching TV in a condition of bloodshot eyes, the influence still goes on the next day.
The day after the day when I forced into stretching the duration of watching TV, I get mucus discharges from the eyes next day morning, and my eyes get much blearier toward every thing I look at.
On the day like this, I try to move my body at the most amount possible all day. I try winning my sight back by keeping away from books or TV. By virtue of this habit that I have kept eyes away from print or TV whenever my eyes starts to feel hurt, I have been able to maintain my sight at least no worse than now.

Especially at daybreak or morning when I begin my day, I set my getup time differently from season to season to avoid artificial lights; I make an absolute rule to wear sunglasses at the time of sunshine’s starting to spread in order to avoid all kinds of reflective lights that are strongly sparkling from morning; I look at things with a vacant stare in order to relax the tension in the eyes while I am walking or lying.

For your reference, if there is any diabetic who reads a newspaper as soon as getting up, it is recommended that the patient should keep off from it even from now for the sake of the future.

Although I pretend to be wise(!) and proud(!) to an extreme, I live as if the queer species who cannot drive, who don’t read newspapers, who cannot use computer for the sake of my eyes.
Because the inconvenience when I lose my vision is much more worse than the inconvenience when I cannot drive or use computer,.. I just chose the former myself.

(The computer work which I arranged a part-timer to do, I do it myself from May 2004. I had used just saline water until 2003. But from 2004, I deal with the computer work while applying 2~3 kinds of eye drops many times a day for the sake of my eyes that were bloodshot, swollen, sore, achingly painful. Due to that, there is more serious condition going on in the eyes. But I can express my situation now is ‘the situation of no-other-choice.’)

If there is any patient with stronger resistance against light, I wish to dissuade you from attending even an early-morning prayer meeting.
It is because you’ve got to be under an intense artificial lighting in the condition of your body’s not being prepared enough to attend.
If I informed visually-poor diabetic patients of the fact that “there is more likelihood for your eyes to go worse than to get better by praying in faith under a severe light,” I have been treated as ‘a weird minister who says queer stuff’ instead of their being thankful for me who gave information.
Although I have nothing to say with putting up one’s personal faith, I would like to remind that there is a strong superstition implied in this belief.
It is true that the ‘difference between faith and superstition’ is not clear enough for us to see through. But healthy faith is the one that one can differentiate between faith and superstition.

Since taking RH787 poison I was hardly resistant to all kinds of high temperature such as hot air, sunshine, heater, steam, stove,.. as an aftereffect from the very first time. Now after 26 years, the level of allergicness to light has grown still worse because of overlapping diabetic visual-impairedness.

As my eyes grow vulnerable, as my eyes fall into difficulty, as my eyes grow weaker, and as my eyes go worse, my strong desire within(?) is ‘if only I see this brave beautiful world until my last breath.’

Even if I often tell my blood relatives, neighbors or the friends whom I have known for 10~20 years that my body condition is such-and-such, yet people’s feeling and way of thinking are that they are very prone to close their eyes and ears and mouths toward others’ situations in the neigborhood.

So, if I am unfairly treated, there is no other choice but to persevere till the end.

This is the saying that applies not only to me, but also to everybody who suffers due to poor eyesight under the sun.

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Diabetic should ‘Self-Manage’ - As to Breakfast, Lunch and Supper for Serious Diabetic Patients

2005-08-23T16:50:00.000-07:00

Successful Disease Struggle and Advices on Food for Serious Diabetics - What to Eat

It’s not an overstatement to say that, most importantly to all diabetics, adjustment of blood sugar level depends on daily-intaken food by 60% and on body activity and other circumstances by the rest 40%.

According as much, diabetic patients need know how to confine, regulate and enjoy food and drink every day. Regardless of any type of diabetes whether light, heavy, type-I, type-II, childhood type, elderly type.... any diabetic patient strongly needs know how to adjust food and drink according to each own condition of body, in order that they can endure their long struggling lives against disease.

Even any dietary therapy unfamiliar to one’s mouth and body feels strange and ill at ease only for the first few months. But in further repetitive tries over a long term, one can result in getting accustomed to the newly changed menus and dietary habits, and the mouth and the body and one’s mind-set in the brains can, too.

Upon this chance, why don’t you refer to this man’s dietary habits to check your yours?

Diabetic Life(1) - An Example of Breakfast for Serious Diabetic Patients

It is very common that long-term insulin administered patients fall into powerlessness getting up in the morning.
There are occasional days when I as well have to face mornings - if not into powerlessness - in the worst conditions on the day, without knowing the precise cause.
General people will think that, if they get up in the morning, their bodies will naturally get restored. On the contrary, there are many cases of phenomenon in which heavily diabetic patients fall into powerlessness, or into flabbiness of the body.

These points are what are different between normal persons and seriously diabetics. There are many cases in which these points are neglected even between husband and wife or between parent and child.

Because even one’s family members fall short of understanding the morning flabbiness that occurs to serious diabetics, the patient fallen into asthenia has hard time even breathing out of breath far from preparing the morning routine on his own plan, and the wife who has to prepare her morning routine beside such husband cannot help having stress pent-up in her own way.

If it’s only a few times of suffering over the life, the wife will try help her husband with the suffering out of worry. But since(?) it’s been experienced too often and too long, both the powerless husband and the observant wife get onto uneasy terms with each other in their own.
In common words, ‘who will take a cute look at the husband that cannot eat the served meal and cannot handle his single body and cannot take a right breath.’

In patients who have to struggle against disease for very long, there are too numerous times that go onto very uneasy terms even between husband and wife and between parent and child amid long-term disease life, as you can see in the saying that ‘long-term disease has no dutiful child.’

‘Inevitable enduring for an almost exhaustingly long time although the patient is not as sick as death’ is the situation in which the patients with progressive chronic diseases and the family members have to suffer. It is totally different in pattern from the ailments where one nurses a hospitalized sick member for one or two months and looks after the discharged person for a short several months of convalescent stage and then needs no more care.

This fact is what not only the patient but also the family members should make up their minds of.

Speaking of supplementary pieces of erroneous common sense, one needs to know that not every diabetic patient is ‘eating too much unconditionally.’ The patient and the family members also need to know that the longer years go by in getting insulin shot, the harder the patient gets to eat breakfast.’

For long-term diabetic patients, the vulnerable mouth in the morning is still an entity that is formidable in the struggle against disease. Putting food or mere water into the vulnerable mouth even hurts, aches and stinks.
The more failure in blood sugar level the seriously diabetic patients meet with, the more serious the mouth vulnerableness together with morning powerlessness becomes. Besides, there are many times of even their teeth uprisen out of place.

In a vulnerable state of everything in the mouth such as tongue, gum, teeth.., ‘eating itself’ is a hard work and stress.

The trait of Korean food are peppery, salty, hot, cold,... in a word ‘stimulation itself.’ Putting the stimulative dishes into the vulnerable mouth, the patient makes many ugly faces from the morning, grows impatient toward closeby family members without reason,...
They rather shouldn’t have eaten the breakfast, but because of ‘low blood sugar symptom’ which diabetics, especially insulin-shot type-I patients meet with in their empty stomach more badly, they cannot even think of skipping meals, either.

The patients with that symptom need first have his body recuperated with what he can eat in that vulnerable mouth. And if recovered gradually up to inside the mouth, right then he should take from other dishes the calorie that is necessary for the body.
The calorie taken by diabetics is more or less according to person to person, because it is proportional to how much sum of activity one spends, what internal medicine one takes, how much insulin administration one has, and how one’s mind and body changes according to stress.

Speaking of another tip of information for reference, a long-suffering diabetic patient could tell to which degree his blood sugar level ‘is being adjusted’ just through the vulnerableness of the mouth after getting up in the morning.

Just as you can tell if the previous day’s blood sugar adjustment was a failure just looking at the odor and bubbles’ condition of the urine while you pass water gotten up in the morning, so one can check up his own ‘blood sugar adjustment’ just through his vulnerability of the mouth.

The longer ‘high blood sugar symptom’ stays due to unsuccessful blood sugar control, the redder than usual the gum is, the bit more uprisen the teeth are, and the more fragile the whole mouth is. So, eating food, he get his mouth hurt, smart and sting for a first some while, and often experiences blood coming out while brushing his teeth.
Through urine, one can tell what the meal eaten a few hours ago was and how the living pattern of a day ago was. Whereas, through the ‘symptom of one’s mouth getting vulnerable,’ it is significant to tell how unsuccessful control of blood sugar level there has been for the more days than two.

The extraordinarily frequent teeth-uprising diabetic is largely because he disregarded his fragile phenomenon in the gum, ate stimulative food that is hot, cold, peppery, salty,... from the morning, and neglected the cleanness of the mouth in the state of wrong blood sugar control.

The longer he suffers in diabetes, the more slowly each function of such body parts as joints, muscles, nerves, blood vessels, eyes, mouth,.. recovers only as a certain time goes by without functioning properly as soon as in the morning.
It will be easier to understand what I mean if you think up the ‘worming-up’ for your car in winter. Only the difference is, cars need about 1~2 minutes of worming-up, but seriously diabetic patients need about a long 1~2 hours of ‘worming-up.’ But the same is, both first need to run a trial before moving steadily onto the stage without a hitch.
Vulnerableness of the mouth belongs to this symptom, too.

If only an ever so long seriously diabetic patient keeps successful blood sugar control, the mouth recovers better enough to eat stimulative food from 1~2 hours after rising in the morning.

My case is, just 10 years or 5 years ago I drank and chewed about a cup of coffee, bread, a glass of milk and a piece of fruit and sauntered along the street in the morning before starting of the day’s routine.
But since 2~3 years ago, for breakfast I have been only eating the coffee and juice made ‘hottish, sweetish and lukewarm’ by pouring coffee beans into icecream. In merely last 2~3 years, my body is changing badly enough that I can hardly feel like chewing a piece of bread and a piece of fruit in the morning.
Fortunately yet, in fall 2003 getting inch by inch out of severe stress, I am getting bit by bit better enough to feel like eating a piece of bread at times.

Speaking of the breakfast to have been practicing since 2~3 years ago, I drink sweetish lukewarm coffee made of icecream-coffee and finish up with a glass of juice I made after throwing in various fruits and vegetables (introduced how to make the juice in 7) ‘Have fruit and Vegetable-oriented Supper’ of 8. Body Training for Sex). After 2~3 hours, I eat a certain addition of bread, rice cake, potato, sweet potato, etc heated in the microwave oven, or I eat early lunch from the outset instead.

On summer morning, I prepare(?) breakfast and look after turtles and flowerpots on the veranda. Rising in the morning, I decide on which street I should choose according to my body condition on the morning bed to walk to the church for 30~50 minutes. In the church, I do my body motions to loosen up my stiffened joints and muscles in the airconditioned space for about 30 minutes,... In winter, I increase walking time instead of looking after turtles and flowerpots.
Despite the fact that I am more active than healthy commoners morning time, I settle my breakfast with only coffee and juice that are sweetish and lukewarm. From only the ‘icecream-coffee’ and juice eaten in the morning, I get the calorie that will last me up for 2~3 hours in the morning.

I haven’t ever counted exactly how much calorie what I ate was. But given a day, a month and a year, the biggest trait of what I eat is that ‘I am balancing control to some degree.’
I owe this exceptional more frequent happenings of ‘lower blood sugar’ symptom as compared with other diabetic patients to the gift(?) from my regulation and constraint on food.

These theories of mine are only to myself. The happenings of ‘low blood sugar’ symptom ‘might be good to’ the joints or vessels that have much to do with blood sugar level, especially ‘such parts as eyes, kidneys, etc. where capillary vessels center around’ because of the lowered blood sugar level at each corner of the body in a long term though the body suffers in short hours.

But this dangerous(?) idea is my own theory that I have acquired through the numberless experiences of ‘low blood sugar symptom’ for the past 26 years. (Certain days I suffer as far as 2~3 times a day because of low blood sugar.)

Rather more articles on this book, I have allotted for those seriously diabetics who have insulin administered for over 10 years, than for early diabetics who have been insulin-administered for under 5~10 years. Under this consideration, I have written my very idea that low blood sugar level might be helpful to joints, vessels, eyes, kidneys,.. in longer period.

When low blood glucose level happens, the heart or spine becomes too hurting to move. But by virtue of the blood glucose level lowered up to the capillary vessels prevalent among each corner of the body because of low blood glucose, the parts that have much to do with capillary vessels suffer less harm, it is thought.

Regulating food in this sense is what I believe in my body. (Part of it overlaps with ‘3. How to Protect Eyes’)

The amount of Icecream + coffee + Juice + ?(other food) that I usually have in the morning is 1000cc. I take as similar amount or calorie as boiled rice + Korean soup + side dishes + water that are intaken by others as a meal.
The reason I have as much as 1000cc in the morning whether it’s coffee, milk, juice,... is because calorie is important and quantity is as well important.

These points are what are different between my eating habits and the dietetic treatments others are doing.

If the amount is less, then hunger annoys me. Annoyed in the hunger I get to have unexpected snack. And from the food between meals, I get more calorie than I need.

In order that you succeed in alimentotherapy or diet, you should lower the calorie but shouldn’t diminish the amount, I’d like to emphasize.
You have to have as much as your stomach feels full, only then you can be free from eating things.

As one of the best foods that can keep one sustaining his or her own life in their never gaining weight even if they eat as much as their stomach feel satiated, there is sure juice that one eat on his or her own making.

* The ‘Diabetic Life’ data source http://www.mryoum.com/
- Speaking of diabetes in my homepage http://www.mryoum.com/ although either is the same diabetes, the writer assigns rather more pages for the seriously diabetic patients who have been suffering from so many kinds of complications that diabetes brought through its injections for 10, 20, 30.., compared to the patients who are latent with trivial diabetic symptoms, who are in the early stage less than 5 years since insulin shot, and who haven’t yet developed special complications.

Diabetic Life(2) - An Example of Lunch for Serious Diabetic Patients

2005-08-23T16:36:00.000-07:00

Successful Disease Struggle and Advices on Food for Serious Diabetics. - Lunch

Only lunch, I eat ‘as any amount as I can’ without care of any amount or calorie.

Even though I don’t care calorie or amount only for lunch, my eating habit itself is I don’t have much of the high-calorie food like meat, fried dishes, etc. This eating manner enables me to keep the habit that I ‘eat only lunch as any amount as I can.’

My fixed idea about food is, one had better eat at least a meal a day up to his sense of fullness, so he ‘can be comfortable not only in food but also in overall living.’

There are many impulsive times when I feel like eating regardless of time if I cling only to food control for 3 meals a day and for 365 days a year. It would be fortunate if things stop at this point, but on too restricted a dietetic treatment, one might be confronted with so far as ‘the sense of oppression or so far as the lack of will that is felt throughout the whole life,’ which he haven’t even thought of till then.

Judging from my experience, rather than say ‘never eat too much’ for the diabetics who have to be on a long-term strict diet, I’d like to advise the patients to go easy on at least one corner, so that they get out of too much stress through the corner.

For average people, ‘eating’ itself is their great pleasure of life. Removing too much of this enjoyment is just too much, too inhuman. If there are any persons who live giving up this enjoyment in their lifetime, they are individuals who have almost already reached the mental state of delivered souls from worldly existence.

In my case, by helping myself to the full at lunch, I go easy not only on the stress of food itself but also on the pressure of life.

(Even this went to trouble from summer 2003 on. Since summer 2003 when my eyes got fragile, my eyes have been under a harmful influence due to the heat occurring naturally because of hot weather, even due to the heat caused by the food’s own calorie after intake of food. In summer, I cannot even have as satiating lunch as I can, so that I may avoid this phenomenon.
For 4 months of summer 2004, never have I had warm boiled-riced meals.
The food that I had for lunch was all that I ate as a proper meal. All along the summer since 2004, however, I have had for lunch the cold dishes such as cold soybean noodles, cold noodles, long rounded stick rice-cake,... Because I had to have cold dishes, I had to spend 4 months of the summer suffering inevitable occasional looseness of the bowels. So I wasn’t able to eat warm soup and warm boiled-rice until the morning of Korean Thanks-giving Day.

Once more I emphasize, changing for the worse like this is the formidable fact of progressive chronic illnesses and the feature of diabetes.)

The nearer one approaches autumn, the freer he becomes. But
① considering the diabetes’ feature that one’s body grows more vulnerable, weaker, worse and more ruined as longer time passes,
② other diabetics too must heighten the intensity of their struggle against disease up to this much
③ for the sake of their own bodies.

* The ‘Diabetic Life’ data source http://www.mryoum.com/

Diabetic Life(3) - An Example of Supper for Serious Diabetic Patients

2005-08-23T16:26:00.000-07:00

Successful Disease Struggle and Advices on Food for Serious Diabetics. - Supper

My supper in the evening has no certain formula.

If the food I had for lunch seems remaining smaller in the body whether it be quantity, quality or calorie, I accordingly and naturally eat as light food and as little amount for supper; indeed I eat this way.

Contrarily, if I have coffee icecream and juice for breakfast and moderate amount of bread, noodles, etc. for lunch, then in this case much more eaten supper than needed on the day can cause my blood sugar level out of control.

Eating the most lunch that one can so as to stand up against as light and little supper as he can, this too is a piece of wisdom that I have learned - about diet.

For a few months of summer season, I usually have my body so heavy and have so often times of total exhaustion, I don’t surpass 5 times of eating a meal out of 21 a week.
(The writings such as these are the ones that apply to my condition of body 2002 through 2003. It follows the previous part where the physical conditions had been going worse and worse.)

When this happens, I often recover myself eating a moderate amount of beer and fruit wine like beer and icecream, beer and juice, beer and fruit,.. and then bread or rice cake for supper.

As the body gets more and more too heavy, so I eat more and more often times of beer and wine. (Since summer 2003, I have been living as careful in the eyes as to diminish drinking the moderate amount of alcohol.) Once given refreshment to my body after eating beer or fruit wine, I then try having such as bread, rice cake, ramen, potato,...

In winter I can eat with ease without borrowing any help of alcohol; my frequency of drinking liquor dwindles as compared with in summer.

One more thing is, once 500 cc of beer or 800~1000cc of fruit wine gotten into the stomach, I get to eat less of others in proportion to that amount.

According to season, quantity of body activity differs, and time span and activity volume from supper to bed differ, too. So my trait of dietary habit is, I adjust eating carbohydrate, saccharide and even alcohol differently according to season by season.

* The ‘Diabetic Life’ data source http://www.mryoum.com/

Advice on Diabetes - Overall Suggestions on Food in Disease Struggle of Serious Diabetics

2005-08-23T00:40:00.000-07:00

Successful Disease Struggle and Advices
- Looking for one’s Suitable Living Style and Food.

I am not a doctor.
Upon my experience I have had, I should like to tell other diabetics that ‘they might as well live and enjoy the tastes they like,’ beyond the negative unconditional instructions like
Do not eat!
Do not do!
Do not wear!
so they may endure their long-striving lives against disease.
Just in that case, there will be fewer cases in which they give up as they feel bored in the middle of long-long-period struggle against disease.

In order to persevere in the long struggle against disease, temperance and repression alone is not the first priority.

Considering western patients with diabetes ‘have been living controlling their blood glucose level without eating boiled rice,’ you might understand what I am telling you from now on.
For me, coffee is more stimulative to the heart and the spinal nerve than beer and wine. I have tried some times to stop eating coffee for the sake of the heart and the spinal nerve.
Yet I am eating coffee.

For me, coffee is not what I drink but what I eat.
As I replace my breakfast by ‘icecream-coffee’ made by pouring 500~800cc of coffee into icecream all at once, the expression ‘eat’ is more correct.

The smell(fragrance) I like is coffee and mugwort.
There are times when I pour - a mug or so of - thick - made black coffee or mugwort-containing herb medicine into the bath water, while taking a bath.
What we hear often the ‘aroma therapy’ is a method of using the principle of having one’s mind and body comfortably refreshened by breathing her favorite fragrances into her deeper body. The aroma therapy is, a therapeutical way that the comfortably governed mood can heal one’s body and mind and even disease.

The bathing through coffee, which I often do, is also the one that applied this principle.

Have I planned my disease-struggle life on 1~2 years of term, I would have boiled coffee randomly by hook or crook.
But seeing it was not a disease struggle that will last only 1 or 2 years, I rather changed my disease struggle if possible in the direction of enjoying(?) life by making the best of what tastes I like.

There is no clear prediction for diabetics and any other progressive chronic patients of how long their disease-struggling periods will be left; nobody but God guesses if it is 10, 30, or 50 years.
This point needs be more seriously considered especially by the parents of childhood diabetics with very long-term disease struggle expectation, and by the young diabetics who are insulin-shot in the 20s or 30s, than other diabetic patients.

Alcohol is what I also apply in my long disease struggle.
Alcohol infiltrates into and spreads all over the body more quickly than pure water or ionized beverage. This property of alcohol is applied, if you eat a-bit-of-alcohol-added icecream, chocolate, bread, rice cake, fruit,.. in such situations as when you are tired, when you are totally exhausted, or when you are bored of food itself.
Even when I take Cheongsim(=chest-clearing) pills of herb medicine, I have it with wine. Water takes an long hour to get the pill ingredients to infiltrate into the body, whereas wine takes only 20~30 minutes to get it to spread into the whole body, I can feel - (in my case.)

I used to enjoy it, because not only of this property of alcohol, but also of the carefree feeling and relaxed moment of the body when I drank a small amount of alcohol (I am as weak to alcohol itself as I have to mix ice or juice into just 13-degree-or-so fruit wine).

Particularly in the old days of pent-up rage I suffered, I would often drink liquor to alleviate my inner passion somehow by the help of alcohol.
Alcohol was actually a big help to getting over those hard times, but things have changed since summer 2003 when my eyes turn for the worse. From then on, I had to refrain myself from drinking alcohol, which I had before moderately. For the sake of the body going for the worse this way, what next time do I have to refrain myself from...?
I feel I am in too hard a situation by now.

For the diabetics who have been insulin-injected for a long time, it is another pain to eat ‘what they dislike’ reluctantly.
In this case, rather than eating it under compulsion in a hard and extremely tired bodily condition and having an attack of indigestion, you may as well drink beer or wine to a moderate degree. And in so doing, if you recover and can take what amount of calorie you need for the day, you don’t have to evade this manner without reason.

Another common sense people don’t acknowledge about diabetes is, that wrong eating habits or high-caloried diet is worse than a moderate amount of alcohol intake.
This fact is what not only diabetics but also the entire citizens need to know. (This point is more seriously misunderstood by in proportion to religious people who pride themselves as a person of better ‘faith’ than other people.)

Meanwhile, you should be mindful that one needs some degree of self-restraint as concerns liquor.

In the past 4 years, my body and mind was so hard to bear that the frequency of drinking hard beverage has been increasing. By drinking liquor, my body and mind have gradually been loosened up and getting out of the pent-up rage inside myself to a degree. In the meantime, it has been hurting my joints, I’d like to add for other diabetics.

But the reason why I still drink liquor is, because by doing so I could better swallow any food I dislike in a hard-conditioned body and mind by the help of alcoholic spirits in the body, digest it more easily without an attack of indigestion while eating reluctantly, and make my mind more comfortable, as compared with the loss my joints might suffer due to alcohol. So I chose this manner. So I sometimes still enjoy.

Beyond the superstition and prejudice on specific foods “A is blindly good; B is blindly bad,” my eating habit and my life style is “By comparison between A and B, some is efficacious to some extent as compared with some another.”

And this attitude of my life is the wisdom that other diabetic patients are lacking.

Due to my chasing after this wisdom for the past days, I have been living through countless conflicts with people around.
Although I have been living in disgust against encountering with people itself, I am presently counseling to others that other diabetics too live as a ‘crazy guy’ by learning this wisdom, beyond myself alone being treated as a ‘crazy guy.’

If there is any diabetic of the readers who read this book, I would like to request that he or she adapt all the life theories and life methods into their own bodies and then live in their own manners of life, instead of blindly following others’ lifestyles.

- Speaking of diabetes in my homepage http://www.mryoum.com/ although either is the same diabetes, the writer assigns rather more pages for the seriously diabetic patients who have been suffering from so many kinds of complications that diabetes brought through its injections for 10, 20, 30.., compared to the patients who are latent with trivial diabetic symptoms, who are in the early stage less than 5 years since insulin shot, and who haven’t yet developed special complications.

About Relationship between Diabetic and Diet - ‘Weight Control’ of Adult-Disease Patients is

2005-08-01T16:30:00.000-07:00

About Relationship between Diabetic and Diet -
How Important ‘Weight Control’ of Adult-Disease Patients is

For most progressive chronic patients, diet and exercise therapies are required through their over-all struggling life against disease. These parts are closely related to diet.
Progressive chronic patients need the ‘murderous diet’ that demands still more intensity and still longer time than the average diet that healthy people do over long period of their disease lives.

One characteristic of the ways I introduce through this book myself is ‘gradually and slowly’ which might be easiest and hardest.
In the lose-weight event of the diet taking 5kg off the body a month - disregard as they may a later failure to come - they can tell in both eyes that her weight on the scales is diminishing day by day.
In diet, there would be no more stimulating than this.

Diet advertisements advertise their own items’ superiority by putting up the catchphrases taking off how many kg within 1 month to 3 months at the longest.
The problem is, even if you succeed in losing weight in the limited time as they advertised, yet you cannot eat or workout like when you were on the strict diet for the rest of your life.
After all, there only comes the vicious cycle of ‘yoyo syndrome-> diet-> yoyo syndrome’ in which fat grows back again as soon as the fixed diet period is finished.

However, “take it off gradually, and there will be no bad side effect and then the lightened body will keep the same on during lifetime.” This best diet is very easy to be failed because many a man is foolish enough to grow tired of the things that cannot be seen through their own eyes, or tired of boring things that are without stimulus.
Mere 500g off a month means 5~6kg off in a year and 10kg~12kg in 2 years. This much of body fat off will change a so-so woman’s previous ordinary body line and also satisfy her to a degree of her diet goal.

Yet the biggest cause why their diet fails lies in the fact that ‘she should take off her body fat tiny by tiny’ by investing a long 2~3 years.
But for the diet losing weight tiny by tiny over 2~3 years, take it to heart - if careful to a degree - that the body shape made during diet remains for lifetime, because one’s life habits during the lose-weight period have already set firmly into his or her regular living pattern.

3 months’ investment might not guarantee 3 years, but 3 years’ investment may ensure you 30 years.
If you are ensured 30 years through 3 years’ investment, this 3 year’s one is never an expensive investment.

The manners I advise for diet and diabetics are all the same the things that command time and patience.

There is no royal road to learning!
There is no royal road to health!!
There is no royal road to diet, too!!!

There is no shortcut or secret formula for the individual struggling against diabetes, or especially for the type-I diabetics who had to have insulin administered.

Just by bearing in mind that ‘I need the wisdom and will to live and change my whole lifestyle according to my optimum,’ then what I counsel may be shining in your life.

Series by Youm Sangmyoung,
Volume I: “I Still Want To Live”
Text P.26-28 ‘Beyond Common Sense and Prejudice...’
Diabetes or confronted to a health and when the data which is many more is necessary, my personal homepage http://www.mryoum.com/

About Diabetes - different types in ‘diabetes

2005-08-01T16:29:00.000-07:00

About Diabetes - different types in ‘diabetes

What thing one should remember here is, there are light and heavy symptoms and different types in ‘diabetes,’ the same as there are levels in the game of Korean checkers.

On the average, the normal persons’ blood sugar level is 0.1mg glucose per 100dl blood. The doctor uses this number to say, “Your sugar level has come out at 100.”
Though there are a bit different blood sugar levels according to the doctor, refer to the following:

Blood Sugar Level 130~150: This is otherwise called ‘latent diabetes,’ which is a big factor to develop into later diabetes. From this level upward, one needs to regulate his eating habit and his way of living. He or she must keep a steady living of ‘prevention.’

Blood Sugar Level 150~180: It is relatively a slight diabetes. This is the principal offender in the ‘diabetic war’ in Korea.
If the patient concerned regulates his own body through eating habit, way of living, work-out and so forth, then there is no big impediment for him to live on.
This is relatively such light diabetes about which doctors will usually tell the patients to adjust blood sugar level through diet or physical exercise therapy, before they suggest internal medicine to the patients.

Blood Sugar Level 180~?: This is otherwise called middle-age type, pyknic type, non-insulin-dependent type, or type-II diabetes. From this level upward, the individual concerned must make the determination to keep a full-scale struggling life against diabetes.
He has the characteristic of regulating his blood sugar level through internal medicine.
By diabetes, there are usually many cases that you mean light diabetes, middle-age type, or type-II diabetes called pyknic type.

Blood Sugar Level ?~?: This is insulin-dependent type, type-I diabetes, or childhood diabetes.
Characteristically, this is the patients who are hard to adjust blood sugar level through internal medicine. This is the type in which an individual must have insulin injected from below age 20, because there has been their abnormal insulin secretion due to the pancreas trouble since childhood.
Aside from the fixed idea ‘diabetes occurs only to those who are obese,’ there are also many cases that happen to the skinny individuals. Because there is many a time that diabetes itself is a grave symptom, it is characteristic in type-I diabetes that there is strongly fluctuating symptom of blood sugar between hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia.

It is characteristic that below 20% of all diabetics are type-I diabetes that requires insulin administration, and that it starts with already serious symptom from when diabetes occurs.

Whenever I mention the diabetes that I am suffering at each corner of this book, I tend to emphatically express the ‘type-I diabetes that has insulin administration’ rather than express just the simple diabetes.
The reason is, because the patients with type-I diabetes that needs insulin administration have more intensiveness in diabetes itself compared to other types of diabetic patients, despite suffering from the same diabetes. It is also because the patients with the childhood diabetes, representative of type-I diabetes, have to live extraordinarily hard disease lives, which needs as long insulin administration as 30, 40, 50 years - and so it has to be.

Those past 28 years were such hard times as could make my back bent and such heavy-burdening days as could stop my breath, but it is all thanks to ‘my own lifestyle’ that I can show some different spirit, some different figure, some different body motions,..than other RH-787 poison eaters in the mid-70s or than the other diabetics who might have had 28 year insulin administration - if those RH787 eaters had otherwise survived.
It is also because I have lived being treated as an eccentric or crazy guy for the life.

I hope what I introduce will help other diabetics, the patients suffering from progressive chronic diseases, seriously handicapped individuals, and other persons who are suffering from the bodily phenomena similar to mine.

Before carrying out what I suggest, there are some following cautions.

(1) Consider constitution (body type) and physical strength are different according to each individual.

Because each person or each patient is different in constitution and physical strength, one must know that what helped me might be able to bring unexpected contrary effects for the persons who are different in constitution and physical strength.

(2) Change one’s life pattern bit by bit

So far as what I am today, for over last 20 years I have lived enjoying ‘my own personal styles of living,’ say, the dietary habit, the sentiment, the dances,..that are my sole.
Without considering the above, don’t over-follow from the start unconditionally no matter how better what I introduced might be. If there are any individuals who mean to bring what I practiced into their lives, first make slow and slow changes to you each person’s life pattern, so that there could be minimum trouble.

Diabetes more data, my personal homepage http://www.mryoum.com/

How a Diabetic should 'Self-Manage'- People struggling against disease.

2005-08-01T16:27:00.000-07:00

How a Diabetic should 'Self-Manage' - People struggling against disease.

especially the patients of progressive chronic illness who have to live fighting with themselves in lifetime, are required to have ‘their own lifestyle’ according to how their personal constitutions are and according to how advanced their progress of disease is, rather than administer in accordance to the prescription by the doctor or observe the ‘do-not’ list.

To look into the patients around, there are unexpectedly many patients who believe that doctors or drugs will solve their everything.
Of course, this doesn’t necessarily mean they should always keep off from doctor’s prescription or medicine.

According as one has suffered in whatever chronic disease 10 years, 20.., they become easy to get so light-eared, that there are many cases that they apply the folk remedies which others suggest or that they administer the expensive strange drugs that are all too expensive.

Folk remedies are but lesser.
How many queer drugs there are! What is still worse, even religious men are boasting that believing in their own religion or praying to only the absolute whom they themselves worship can heal every illness (?). This is a reality in Korea where I live.

If there is genuine efficacy in the drugs and price-high medical instruments which someone is advertising as magic, or in the unfamiliar health foods that assume a cure-all.., or in the drugs and appliances they use, or in the prayers through which some religious bodies are self-advertising, there would have been nobody who is ill on earth by the time of now.
As the ill have disappeared, hospitals should have vanished out of sight, as a matter of course.

According to the contribution level for humankind, the developers and inventors of these drugs and appliances must have received Novel Prizes in Physiology and Medicine or should have become global enterprises. The religious leaders and bodies that insist on healing every disease only through prayers must have appeared as yet another ‘savoir’ for mankind....
To look at the reality, however, still more clinics, still more drugs and still more ill persons are still happening.

Newly-rising religious organizations and inundating religious pieces of propaganda, so many magnetic blankets, the various health appliances such as in thermotherapy, low-frequency therapy.., and new-coming medical supplies and appliances with the price range of several hundred-thousand to several million won are pouring onto the earth day by day.
To think of these phenomena the other way around, so it means that new drugs, articles and religious bodies’ advertisements are gushing out day by day, because the prayers and the drugs and appliances are not as effectual or efficacious as the religionists and producers propagandize.

I as well have mobilized many medicines and means for the last long 28 years.
By the words ‘I have mobilized many medicines and means’, what I implied is that ‘I have managed and maintained my body until today without particular drugs or secrete formulas.’

It might look light and easy to have the past 28-year living of mine put into words, but each trivial such as wearing a mask, putting on a knee protector and wearing sunglasses is the experience, the wisdom and my own way of living that were built up one by one after long extreme suffering for years without being taught or recommended by anybody.
Some of the things in the book were not acquired until 10 years of insulin administering and some not until 20 years.
And these days in 28 years, I am still looking for some new alternatives.

What is the biggest characteristic and what causes one to be the most agonized in diabetic life is that it is ‘progressive’ and is that one must seek out his or her new ways in harmony with the bodily situation that is changing for the worse and worse as time goes by, because it is the progressive form of disease.

What is less unfortunate, though, is that I have had the wisdom to discriminate between what would be helpful and what would be harmful and what would be meaningless for me.

Proverb 9:10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
Proverb 9:11 For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.
The ultimate objective of the people burdened with diseases is just that ‘the years of thy life shall be increased.’

For me, there is few more appropriate one than this phrase to express the objective of struggling life against disease.

Diabetes or confronted to a health and when the more data, my personal homepage http://www.mryoum.com/

Advice on Diabetes - Beyond Common Sense and Prejudice....

2005-07-30T00:22:00.000-07:00

Advice on Diabetes - Beyond Common Sense and Prejudice...

26 years has been passed, fighting against type-1 diabetes that happened after RH-787 poison and the other various complications.
For those years, even ‘living on’ itself was close to strife.

What I felt in the hard and tiresome struggle against disease was, not only diabetics but also the progressive chronic disease patients are living ‘too strongly bound by common sense.’

If the patient makes an ‘unseen frame’ for himself and begins to tune all his thinking and life to the frame, then later his entire life couldn’t help but go by that pre-established frame.

I will take my breakfast for example, as to how one expands his living span by cracking out of his wall of prejudice which he has yet known to be common sense.

Coffee and icecream is my menu for breakfast, which are acknowledged as taboo among diabetics.
Diabetics have been taught to keep away from icecream and coffee. Instead, they regarded it as diabetics’ basic diet to have such as boiled rice, soup, broth, pot stew that are traditional dishes in Korea. This is the fixed ideas and common sense that Koreans have had.

One needs to know, however, considering feebleness and vulnerability in the mouth that long-term insulin-injected seriously ill type-I diabetics often suffer when they get up, the hot boiled rice and hot soup of Korean traditional breakfast menu might be unsuitable for the patients who have been diabetically ill for their long times.

In a weak state in the mouth, far from chewing food, the least action of having something into the mouth makes the patient feel sore, prickly and painful.
Drinking only water hurts one, too.

Given the condition of my body where eating food itself got harder because of brittleness in the mouth on mornings and the diabetic diet pattern that needed eating a day’s essential calorie requirement through three even meals, the coffee into icecream is my way of diet that I developed as an alternative of the ‘meal without stimulation’ that is neither hot, cold, peppery, nor salty.., whose calorie equals to a portion of meal.

Brittle as one’s mouth may be, this ‘icecream-coffee’ meal of mine is easy to be eaten because this is made into a soup-like one that is high-caloried and neither hot nor cold.

Boiled rice, bread, rice cake, noodles, instant noodles (ramen), potato, sweet potato,..which Koreans like to eat are carbohydrate-based meals.
Though eaten in the form of carbohydrate in the mouth, they turn into saccharide before they are assimilated into the body.

The icecream-coffee breakfast of mine is missing just one step for the sake of my body’s convenience.

The biggest trait of diabetes is its ‘progressiveness.’
In order to keep managing one’s gradually-changing body, a man should change diet and all his other habits in the progress of diabetes.

To change your habits of living according to the changing body - this is wisdom.

Series by Youm Sangmyoung,
Volume I: “I Still Want To Live”
Text P.17-19 ‘Beyond Common Sense and Prejudice...’
Diabetes or confronted to a health and when the data which is many more is necessary, my personal homepage http://www.mryoum.com/

‘Long battle against an unseen foe’- Patient needs his own Lifestyle

2005-07-26T00:12:00.000-07:00

Part I : Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Greetings /

“Long battle against an unseen foe”
This aspect is the biggest peculiarity of progressive chronic diseases.

Diabetes is a disease that is scary but not what you can sidestep from.
Still, nor is it what little disease you can make light of, I would like to remind the whole nation. To hear of the baffling news of ‘Diabetes War’ that the mass media reported, there might have been some who apprehended already beforehand about diabetes, who were diagnosed as one, or who were seriously diabetic patients with long-term insulin injection. Even so, they ought to see “they can broaden their range of life to an infinite magnitude according to how to interpret diabetes.”

A seriously diabetic patient...
Since a dangerous poison RH-787 taken in fall 1977, I have been living till today after miserably perishing for the first 2 years due to the functionional collapse of each bodily part and then by surviving miraculously through religious power. With a 26-year-long history of type-I diabetes mellitus, I still have to have insulin administered in addition to peculiar condition of my body that is hard to endure all kinds of heat and hotness such as sunshine, summer heat, hot air, steam, heater, stove,..since 1977.

Now, given my age 43,44 living in 26 years of such situation, I have been spending the best days of my life struggling against disease.
I don’t know how long my days are remaining, but I have to struggle my way through the remaining time more horribly and desperately than now.

The biggest peculiarity of ‘progressive chronic diseases’ such as diabetes, heart disease, kidney disease,..is that there happen other new symptoms here and there in the body as time goes by.

“Long battle against an unseen foe”
This aspect is the biggest peculiarity of progressive chronic diseases.

Thanks to the pertinacious and combative manners of life by mustering all the best pieces of wisdom in my hands, I have come up to here through 26 years.
There run the following wishes underneath this book.I’d like to inform other diabetics of through what process I have persisted for 26 years with such my poor body that were dying exhaustively and miserably. And I’d like to deliver some hopeful message through such my life to other diabetics.

What is important? Even if both are the same type-I diabetic patients requiring insulin (on the assumption that both had insulin injected under a given similar age and similar circumstances), yet according to how diligently a man tries his own best, he can either live up to ’30, 40 years longer, or he can uglily fall short of 10 years.’
To impart this fact clearly and exactly to other patients of diabetes mellitus is the essence of this book.

For those who are similar symptoms as mine, who are expecting my similar struggle against disease, they must take it to heart that they are not sprinters but long-distance runners, or marathon racers, when they set their life plan in their illness.
To build up his or her own foundation throughout the life in the long struggle against disease, one needs to plan dispensation of energy like the marathon racer on the start line.

He must neither pour too much of his energy in the first half, nor in the second half, nor at a peculiar single point during all the sections of 42.195km. This is the strict principle of a marathon racer. A more proficient marathon racer must know how to distribute all his available energy in more even-paced portions during all the sections of 42.195km, you should remember.

Even through losing sense of this fact countlessly, making countless mistakes and making countless trials and errors, one ought to remind himself over and over that ‘I am an anonymous marathon racer.’

Keeping it in mind that ‘regulated’ or ‘prolonged’ is rather more appropriate than ‘completely cured’ for the type-1 diabetics who have to maintain insulin shot, they must run the whole distance without giving up during the remaining period of life.
Cynical and Skeptical as it is, the patient struggling against disease with this in mind is the one who leads a wise life as against diabetes.

Another characteristic of this book is, the writer introduces a good amount of something minor - like a nagging mother-in-law - while informing others of how my manners were.
If it is the struggle against disease ending up in only 1 or 2 years, I might have introduced just little information.

For the patients who have yet to struggle against disease throughout their lifetime, they must take it to heart that ‘the best and the last weapon’ is the following spirit, that ‘I have to live till the end’ rather than one or two manners or know-hows.

It is on how to use that weapon that success or failure in the disease life depends. Because of this, readers need to find this book implies ‘attitude of endeavor’ ‘serene state of mind’ or ‘historical view of living without perishing’ more intensely rather than the means that take instant effects.

If every patient to fight through their long periods might put forth every ounce of their energies against their diseases and if the patients might do their utmost, it doesn’t necessarily mean a desired result into every hand.
Just, it means a better possibility to get the result that they have desired.

Me too, to better this possibility, I am doing my extreme.

If each reward to every effort is given to lives, the gloomy reality of today would not even have existed.

Just, the uncertain word ‘tomorrow’ demands too much of me.

Series by Youm Sangmyoung,
Volume I: “I Still Want To Live”
Text P.13-16 ‘ Greetings ’
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Serious Counsel for how Diabetics must Live - Develop the Spirit ‘I must Live till the End’

2005-07-17T18:17:00.000-07:00

10. Develop the Spirit ‘I must Live till the End’

Else than these above, there are many of my own habits of living.

The patients in the long-term struggle against disease must see, that ‘the best and the final weapon’ is ‘the spirit of I shall live till the end‘

In 2 years of dying away and in so miserable state of things, yet through the religious miracle August 1979, I have been surviving until today.

However, speaking of how to survive till today in such hardships to the point of embarrassment, such as the aftereffects caused by RH787’s unique poison + the type-I diabetes and the related complications + rejection symptoms to heat, sunshine, hot weather and steam and plus to various lights, I believe there have been ‘God’s amazing grace and His hands of miracle upon me.’Still, I confess this grace of God repeatedly yesterday, today and tomorrow the same.

Meanwhile, even when my family, neighbors and many other people treated me as a ‘crazy guy,’ I have been living in any possible way to live and survive, rolling about by myself, gasping, raged, frustrated, or even to the point my eyes red-hot due to spitefulness. Surviving up to today, writing, making books, giving sermon, dancing..,

I owe all these blessings to my lifestyle which I have carried on in the situation of being fingerpointed as a ‘crazy guy’, I would like to mention.
(‘The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.’ Proverb 9:10)

By making my books and homepage, I am enlightening people in my own way about how other
patients suffering from diseases, other handicapped persons and other people living in difficulty as outsiders in our human society can “live like humans till the end of their remaining days” by learning ‘how to live and survive without dying.’
History with only yesterday is not genuine history.

Only when yesterday leads to today and today to tomorrow can we speak of history.

This is a genuine historical consciousness, I dare insist.
It is true there is pain to live, but I believe there waits for me and us something more that pain, that I can feel because I live.

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For advice diabetic patients lifestyle - Diet. (Live like a Feather)

2005-06-20T02:10:00.000-07:00

For advice diabetic patients lifestyle

9. Diet. (Live like a Feather)

In proportion to more seriously diabetic patients who had had insulin shot for a longer time, he is sure in for having his joints and blood vessels more weakened, worse and more spoiled.

Considering it holds true that blood vessels, nerves, joints and muscles get more spoiled in proportion to longer insulin administered, the patient ought to somehow look for the ways that will alleviate the burden of joints of the lower body.
The joints of the lower body, especially such as knees or ankles, are directly related to your own weight, of which I would like to remind you once again.

My stature is 178cm or 180cm(?).
Measured in the morning, my weight is more or less 60kg. Common Korean men in the mid 40s, who are the same as my height, would live with the weight of 70~80kg.
I suppose diabetic patients as well would live with this similar physical condition.

However, there is a distinct difference between 60kg and 80kg.
Measured in meat, there is the following difference, 20kg, or 33 kun.

If any who is reading this writing, who’s ever heard of 33 kun of meat, he would have seen faster what I meant to say.

In the swimming pool or in the bathtub, you might lesson your burden of your body, but you cannot live in the water for 24 hours a day and 365 days a year.
Yet in order to lesson the burden of joints in the lower body, there is no other way but you ought to decrease your weight by observing...diet.

‘Diet!’
According to how they think, there are diabetics who might think it’s a mere waste of labor, yet one must remember this is a must prescription in order to live and survive(?).

**
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About diabetic patients lifestyle - Care about Openings of the Body

2005-06-20T02:05:00.000-07:00

about diabetic patients lifestyle - Care about Openings of the Body

8. Care about Openings of the Body

Here, the openings refer to eyes, nose, mouth, ears, navel, penis (vaginal opening) and anus.

A diabetic should care for navel circumference, penis and anus more than eyes, nose, mouth, ears.

For, eyes, nose, mouth and ears are the ones that one can finger and massage, yet navel, penis, anus and kidneys are the ones that one can be put finger on only where there is nobody around. But they are the openings that one ought to take care of at least in the bathtub, if not in other places else. Even if you take care of navel, penis, vaginal opening, anus circumference, it doesn’t demand you to do any unusually difficult or eccentric ways.

The method is, whenever you have time, at least if you take a bath, you need just put pressure on and rub the parts of navel, penis, vaginal opening, anus circumference and the rear waist where kidneys are.
Compared to the investment in eyes, nose, mouth and ears, it will bring superior effects even if you take care of it as much as only 1/3.

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Serious Counsel for how Diabetics must Live - Sex. (Sexual Function)

2005-06-20T02:01:00.000-07:00

For seriously diabetic patients lifestyle - Sex. (Sexual Function)

7. Sex (Sexual Function)

Sexual dysfunction or other sexual weakening symptoms are rather common phenomena to those who have had insulin shot for a long time.

The patients who have been in diabetes or other progressive chronic diseases for a long time need to understand that sex is more importantly how faithful to his life and how self-respectful he is than how frequent and how thoughtful for the other party he is.

If one uses a strange drug or a disposable instrument so as to erect by force(?) his unerectable penis caused by a bad physical condition, then it might bring an effect at first but he will be faced with a minus result later.
Even if he might not go back to such ‘bloom of his youth’as of old, only strengthening his body is a shortcut to regain the ‘pride as a man.’

1) Use a bathtub:

When you have your body heavy, your lower body’s joint poor and blood circulation unsmooth, put it into practice by studying how to strain and loosen the pelves to the utmost in the bathtub. It is good for relaxing the joint and it is less burdensome because it is done in the water.

2) Masturbate without ejaculation (practicing the control without ejaculation):

One need make use of how to keep on the state right before ejaculation after he erects his penis by giving a stimulus to it. If the bodily look right before ejaculation is reflected on the mirror, he will be able to find that each part of the body that his eyes might reach is changing, sphincteral muscle, perineal region, navel, pleura, skin color, joints, muscle,...

If you ejaculate, it is nothing more than masturbation, so be careful. Keep in mind there are many examples to which this method and pose above was applied, like the ‘ether’ that oriental herb medicine says, the sexual methodology in the Chinese classical books, yoga or tantra in Indo,...

3) Walk like a fashion model:

If one walks with heels up, with spinal column upright, with the belly and the ribs held up, the muscles of the legs, the buttocks and the belly get strained.

This is exercise-efficient to the point where one instantly feels the central power of the body centering around mostly the essential parts for sex, like anus, perineal region, penis, hypogastric region (the abdomen),...

4) Exercise with rhythmic waist:

If one puts this into practice, he ought to move his waist fast and moderately. Moving back and forth and right and left, one may as well move your waist as rhythmically as your penis strikes the inside of thighs, the lower abdomen and the perineal region.

- By moving as rhythmically as this way, one’s sexual dysfunction caused by diabetes will be restored a lot more.

5) Massage your waist beyond count:

In order to heighten erectility, one need massage, rub, stretch, beat, twist.., whichever part of the body one’s hands reach automatically, so he ought to smoothen the circulation of joints, blood vessels and nerves.

The parts hard to be reached by the hands are such as navel, the lower abdomen, penis, testicles, perineal region, anus, crotch, thighs, buttocks and the rear waist where kidneys are. Those are deeply and closely related parts when one has sex as well.

Despite the fact that it is a simple and easy treatment to the point where there is nothing better than this against ‘sexual dysfunction,’ yet because of the following demanding requirement(?), ‘massage intensively and untiringly for a long time,’ this treatment has not been easily applying to other people.

If I should say how, there is no other special one but I just massage the stiff or heavily sore parts in a tough manner, and then twist, strike or stretch it as relentlessly as I almost scream.
As simple as it is without any special, if one practices this method for only a year, I am sure erectility will grow as better as amazing.

The longer a patient has been suffering from ‘progressive chronic disease,’ the easier it is to lose the confidence in the life itself. For these male patients, I am mentioning as far as this queer and infantile(?) method, so that ‘even though you are in the disease, you shall live your high-spirited life like the good old days by gaining confidence in sex instead of drooping heads down.’

All humans wish to live a healthy life. But health is beautiful if it is in proportion to the age. If 80-year-old man has a 20-year-old body, the relevant person might easily swagger about in ‘perkiness (sexual playfulness, in original text)’ instead of ‘liveliness,’ so he easily gets to be cheeky.

Because of his ‘presumptuousness,’all the neighbors have to look at his actions with an awkward and embarrassed feeling, instead of blessing the strange old man who is swaggering in the ‘sexual playfulness.’

The ‘vigorousness’ that many earthly men, if not patients, have dreamed of and are still dreaming of can make the relevant person look ugly, if the vigorousness is too far apart from his age.

On the contrary, what if a 20-year-old youth lives with the 80-year-old body? This would be the case in which he might live the life that is accompanied by nothing but rage, frustration or deplorableness towards everything referred to as ‘man’s life’.

One of the clearest characteristics of diabetes is its presentness(-ing).
Insulin shot for 10 years is one different, insulin shot for 15 years is another different, and insulin shot for 20 years is yet another different. In case of me who has had insulin injected for 28 years, I have been living still aware of my body changing even before a few months passing.

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Story about Diabetes -diabetic patients strengthening the skin .

2005-06-20T01:59:00.000-07:00

For seriously diabetic patients lifestyle - Strengthening the Skin .

6. Strengthening the Skin

The longer the period of insulin administered is, the more susceptible, the thinner, the weaker and the too drier the skin grows, so one becomes weary of touching water with the body or hands. Afterwards, blood vessels get so weaker and weaker to the point where even blood vessel injection is hard to be administered.

For those early-stage patients who have insulin shot, it is strongly advisable to strengthen their skin first before it becomes susceptible, thinner and weaker.

1) Sunbathing

In my case, due to aftereffects of RH787, it is hard for my body to accept any of sunshine, steam or heat from the very beginning, but in 3~4th months and in 9~10th months of the year, I had tried to sunbathe inside the house as often as possible by using the sunshine that came through the windows. (This part applies to only before 2003.)

It was a sunbath with oil smeared over my body, with an electric bed on the floor and with an electric fan by the side to cool down the fever on the body.
If somebody had seen this, he might have said ‘a crazy guy is doing a crazy thing.’
Meanwhile, I would rather ask back to them, “Then, why do you have to sunbathe only in 7~8th months the year?!”

Not only I but also anybody who has an extremely weak heart must never dream of sunbathing in 7~8th months of the year. I would notify that heat is a complete poison for man’s heart, kidneys and eyes.

2) How to strengthen your skin through coffee beans

In ‘5. Skin Care,’I suggested one should keep moisturizing by using a lotion-level density of flour paste and oil in place of soap as one of the ways of managing the skin. Another knowhow is, as for the patients whose skin can bear lesser stimulation yet, if they mix that paste with the remaining grounds of boiled coffee beans and apply this paste enough upon the body and then if they rub the skin surface long time without much pressure, it will be helpful to strengthening the skin.

One more effect by this action is, it is also helpful enough for strengthening the glans penis as well as strengthening the skin.

3) Suntan instrument

This is simply my hope. I would like to use a suntan instrument 1~2 times a week for skin care, but unfortunately no economic power. I think the use of a suntan instrument is a necessity article for diabetics rather than a luxury article for men and women’s fashion.
The problem is, how much percent of patients are there rich enough to have this benefit bestowed?

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For advice diabetic patients lifestyle - Skin Care .

2005-06-20T01:55:00.000-07:00

For advice diabetic patients lifestyle - Skin Care .

5. Skin Care

As you get farther and longer into diabetes, you get your skin too tender, thinner and weaker. So only a bit lowered humidity or slight stimulation could cause you to scratch you skin.

If this scratching is merely for a moment, it is all right. But the problem is, because even scratching it to the point of being bloody feels not enough to solve the itchiness in case of diabetes or atopic dermatitis, one gets to scratch for an endless while.

For the patients who have their skin gotten more vulnerable, weaker and thinner due to diabetes and for those patients of skin disease who are suffering from atopic dermatitis due to the skin too sensitive to simulation, their best way of protecting their skin is to keep the optimum humidity of the skin and to avoid stimulation to one’s utmost.

In my case, I often take a shower (bath) but apply soap much less times for the good of keeping the skin moisture.

How to preserve skin moistness and avoid stimulation is:

1) Instead of soap, use paste of flour mixture:

Flour (vegetable) + oil (vegetable) is basic.

According to how the skin situation is, flour and some other additions can be decided.

The flour mixture used in place of soap is basically flour and oil, but according to season, one can apply the additions a little differently. (When in dry season as from November though March, the amount of oil may be increased.)

If it is burdensome to make dough whenever taking shower, you can use a bubble maker to make the dough of lotion-like density and then put it in the refrigerator before you use later. How to apply is, after massaging your body with the mixture as if you apply soap, then you need to take a little more time of rinsing your body than usual without using any soap.

2) Oil massage

After shower, it is better to apply oil widely at once rather than wiping the remaining water with a towel.
The longer time passes, the worse their body condition go, which is diabetic patients’ general trait. For skin also, the longer time goes by, the more susceptible and thinner it is supposed to grow.

In my case, I cared my skin with only baby oil around 10 years from insulin shot, but as time goes by, baby oil + Vaseline was added. Since 2002, I have been managing my skin through olive oil + Vaseline.
In 2002-2003 where I was amidst the disease caused by pent-up rage, even my skin went so worse that I had to apply as far as margarine for the good of skin moisturizing.

In order to smear the surface oil into the body, you can rub the skin for 20~30 minutes as if massaging, please.
You must treat the skin this far, so that you may have your skin protected and free of itchiness. According as more susceptible, weaker and drier as the skin grows, oil massage has to become more part of one’s daily life. (Due to the clotted oil, it is better to separate one’s underwear from his family clothes.)

3) Even if you couldn’t resist scratching the affected part, don’t scratch your bare flesh, rather scratch it with full of Vaseline on the skin. That way, it will be less itching and make a smaller scar left.

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Diabetic patients lifestyle - Teeth and Mouth Care.

2005-06-20T01:53:00.000-07:00

Diabetic patients lifestyle - Teeth and Mouth Care.

4. Teeth and Mouth Care

Keeping clean is the most important. Personally, I brush my teeth 3-5 times with 4-5 toothbrushes.
Easy to visit diabetics, the gum transformation started to develop little by little after 1987, 10 yeas since insulin shot, but I have no artificial tooth yet.

How to manage teeth and the mouth is:

1) After alcohol, clean your mouth before sleeping:

In order to be careful to manage teeth and the mouth, it is the most important to brush one’s teeth before sleep or after alcohol. First, make bubbles with toothbrush add natural thick salt onto the foamy toothbrush; then brush you teeth with the bubbles of toothpaste and salt. Because your teeth might hurt if brushing is too fast, you may do it slowly and a little longer by repeating it 2~3 times.

2) Wear a mask:

My teeth felt chilly, particularly in winter my teeth felt chilly and painful to the point of crying out in the room after returning from a walk. However, wearing a mask solved the chilly teeth problem to a degree. You may use 2 masks one over the other, if one is not enough to solve that chilly symptom.
In my case because I feel my teeth chilly around 15℃ outside, I must necessarily wear a mask October~April.

3. Keep your lips moist:

Diabetic patients drink more water when it is difficult to adjust blood sugar level, when things are harder, when the mouth inside is dirty.., and when lips are dry. In order to prevent your lips from being dry, make a habit of applying a small amount of Vaseline or lip gloss on the lips when you finish brushing your teeth.

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For diabetic patients lifestyle - Foot Care.

2005-06-20T01:49:00.000-07:00

For diabetic patients lifestyle

3. Foot Care

Although I am careful everyday not to have my feet injured, wearing only comfortable shoes in 10 years, 20...since insulin injected for the first time, I have my toe nails dead and my heels or big toes blistered easily even at the time when I walk merely a little more than usual.
For diabetics, more than a fixed amount of walking every day is a necessity, so I cannot even think of stopping the walk.

If you get a blister on a foot while walking, you get a bigger blister after walking the next day. If you venture another walk the next day, this time the blister breaks completely out. On the grounds of foot characteristic, if a wound took place, one should wipe his feet clean for the good of cleanness.
If one wipes his feet clean, the small cut caused by a blister gets bigger, broken open, inflamed and festered, which process I often see. In this situation, the foot sufferer is advised as under:

1) Antibiotic injection:

If the wound remains still unhealed after disinfecting the wound clean and applying the antibiotic-contained cream on the affected part, purchase Kanamycin and stilled water and then inject it right behind the affected part by dividing 0.5cc (half of 1cc) into 2~3 places. Unfortunately now after the separation of medicine and clinic, it is difficult nowadays to get Kanamycin in pharmacies.

If you get a chance into hospital on account of a wounded foot, it is a good way that you request being injected near the wound instead of buttocks.
- Painfulness is better than cutting out. -

2) Walking on toes:

Even if mycillin is administered through an injector around the affected part, the wound doesn’t easily heal up in the situation of using one’s feet in everyday living.

In ‘91~’95, I suffered a lot because of my feet.
One thing I found out after a lot of pains is walking on toes. I guess the amount of walking by common persons might be around 30~60 minutes a day. For the first time when I walked on toes, I could walk only as long as 1~2 minutes before rest, and then walk again,... Later, I got accustomed to walking on toes to the level where I rested only few times to walk for half an hour.

This habit has a virtue through which one can observe the amount of walking for the day while he can avoid giving direct stimulation to the foot wound at the same time.

Suffering for 4~5 years because of the successive cuts on the foot, yet before a few months since introducing that method into daily life, the wounds on the foot would begin to be cured.
Now, whenever there comes a blister on the heel or toe, I use this method.

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Serious Counsel for how Diabetics must Live - Eye Care.

2005-06-20T01:38:00.000-07:00

For advice which is seriously diabetic patients lifestyle - Eye Care.

2. Eye Care

In a word, the relevant person lives with fear complex.

Now that I know how far eye damage or impediment of diabetics goes, eyesight getting more and more impaired is the part that I am most afraid of. Due to the RH787’s aftereffect itself, I was very irresistible to heat, sunshine.., from the beginning.
This is a part which overlaps with the complications caused by diabetes.

It is over 5 years since I last saw TV and 15 years since I last read newspapers to a degree. In proportion as my eyes got weaker and more fragile and more spoiled, I have chosen the Word of God and theological books that are written only in as big letters as possible.
Speaking of what habits of living I am doing for my eyesight to be extended even slightest:

1) Sunglasses:

As sense of resistance begins at a certain moment during struggle against disease, sunglasses is necessary from then on. You must have prepare 2~3 dark-colored glasses.
For reference, enumerating what have evil influence to the eye in everyday life for those who may worry about their eyes getting more tired and going worse whenever watching books, it is the following order,

‘book < newspaper < TV < computer < the headlight opposite in the night,...’

If one keeps away from books while watching newspapers and TV and driving with a view to protecting his eyes, it is wrong methodology of protecting eyes. However good safety glasses will not keep the eyes from being stimulated.

2) Before sleep, lower your eye temperature:

For the diabetics who have heat go up just the upper body, or especially heat go up to their eyes to get bloodshot and feel hurt, they should necessarily lower their heat down before they sleep. (As for me, I have used electric bed until 2003 in order to protect my joint. But since 2004 when my kidneys and eyes got more tender and worse, I couldn’t use even the electric bed to avoid the symptom of heat going up the upper body. This way, the body going in a bad direction as time goes by is a feature of diabetes, a dreadful reality of ‘progressive chronic diseases.’)

If heat goes up in the body, even in winter, you have to open the window a bit and move about with your clothes as few as possible so as to lower the room temperature.
I would like to emphasize if there is any best exercise for relieving the stiffness without burden without getting bored long time in the small space before sleep, there is nothing better than the soft dancing mixed with model’s walking.
- It is still better if you move rhythmically everyday life.

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Advice on Diabetes - Diabetic patients diet life

2005-06-20T01:16:00.000-07:00

Life of Diabetes - diabetic patients diet life

1. Diet Life

Having insulin administered for a long time, it is common that one meets with the worst physical condition of the day, whether he is into asthenia or not, after getting up in the morning.

With vulnerable inner mouth and swollen gum, the mouth inside is hurting, sore and stinging whenever I eat things. In fact, Korean food’s peculiarity is peppery, salty, hot, cold.., in another word, ‘stimulus itself.’
Even so, I couldn’t but eat, because of the lower level of blood sugar.

Insulin-shot diabetics must take a fixed amount of calorie from carbohydrate and saccharide. As years go by, it feels too hard to have rice in the morning; rice gruel is too short of calorie.., so it is not easy to find something good to eat because of my vulnerable mouth inside.

In the past, I had breakfast with coffee, bread and a piece of fruit or so, but recent days I have breakfast with icecream + coffee beans + my self made juice (for the sake of balanced nutrition).

In general common sense, one might think it is odd to hear that a seriously diabetic patient who has insulin shot 28 years has icecream and coffee as a unit of meal. Yet, I chose it for breakfast, considering the powerlessness that seriously diabetic patients often suffer when they get up out of the bed, the vulnerableness within their mouths, and their teeth loosened in the gum. It is the meal formula in which calorie is high, which is neither hot, nor cold, nor peppery nor salty.

Boiled rice, gruel, bread and noodles that Koreans often choose for meal menu are carbohydrate-based meal. If one has carbohydrate-oriented meals, it doesn’t immediately get into the body. First it must turn into saccharide in the body, so it becomes assimilated. Too odd for a diabetic, this habit of my morning meal is only that I omitted just one step in the metabolism of the human body.
(Just a minute - There are more percentage of diabetics in the West than in Korea. Yet, they say there are nowadays more cases of diabetes developed in the East than in the West. “However, do they eat boiled rice-and-soup-oriented meals, like us Koreans?” This should be considered at least more than once.)

- It is accepted as an established fact that the rice and soup are better for Koreans for health and that‘the cereal diet with boiled rice is better especially for diabetics.’
Meanwhile, it might be rather a burdensome prejudice to persist that diabetics must necessarily eat boiled rice and soup, despite the fact that it could cause their faces to get into grimace out of pain inside the mouth or even their teeth fall broken easily if the diabetic patients chew or eat stimulative food at the start of the day.

- If you are one of the patients with ‘progressive chronic disease,’ you may as well know it should be more helpful that you ‘keep what you like within yourself moderately’ rather than put down or abstain from it, so that you can persist longer without becoming overwhelmed in such a long struggle against disease.

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I may fly over the information world and the Internet Ocean

2005-06-11T23:06:00.000-07:00

I may fly over the information world and the Internet Ocean

The writings on my homepage http://mryoum2003.blogspot.com/ are from the following book series of that were published by the Publisher ‘Wailing Freeman’:

Volume I: “I Still Want To Live”
Volume II: “The Savior, God Who Are Hiding Behind”
Volume III: “45-year-old Person’s Images” which haven’t yet been published due to my personal reasons.

If not the contents of the books above, the whole writings on the pages are what I wrote myself.

The translated English text on the homepage has been worked on by translator Ku Myeongsu. Still, he is translating the Volume I, II, III of series by Youm Sangmyoung, which the Book Publication ‘Wailing Freeman’ put out.
Still, there is not little time left until the Volumes III is mounted in English.

As small as each book is translated, I will put it up part by part.

The reason why I used both Korean and English for the contents of my homepage is not investing in my long time and barely-gotten money to pretend self-smart or self-conceited.

Rather, as revealed in my ‘Self-Portrait’ (...thing about), - as a seriously diabetic patient, as a grave handicapped man(?), as a minister, and as a Korean identity - the more real reason is so that I may impart my life that cannot be kept only to myself over to not only Korea but also to somewhere far wider than Korea.

By virtue of such ambition and quixotism of mine, I have been living treated as if a ‘crazy guy’ to be avoided, a ‘megalomaniac’ obsessed by expansive delusion or a ‘dreamer’ floundering in the dream, and still so I am treated.

Now by reinterpreting the ‘wings’ by the genius novelist Lee Sang in my own way, however hurt and wounded my wings are, I am practicing and practicing how to flutter with these injured poor wings for the sake of my own final flight before I die.

Amidst suffering badly in the entanglement of health, human relationship and even money, I am in the process of floundering as if the world is too small, in such a manner of grandeur, preposterousness, or in a word ‘harum-scarum’ that I may fly over the information world and the Internet Ocean to the heart’s content - on the stage of the world.

Diabetes or confronted to a health and when the data which is many more is necessary, my personal homepage http://www.mryoum.com/

The host of this house, Wailing Freeman Minister Youm Sangmyoung....at the corner of Korea.

Dance with me! - patients of diabetes, arthritis, rheumatism, progressive chronic diseases

2005-06-11T00:34:00.000-07:00

I would like to recommend impromptu dance to the patients of diabetes, arthritis, rheumatism, progressive chronic diseases

* Wailing Freeman, Minister Youm Sangmyeong’s Life of Diabetes.

1. Name: Youm Sangmyeong
Nickname: Wailing Free Man
Age: 45
Figure: 179cm, 60kg
Profession: Minister/Author/Publisher
Physical Features: Seriously-ill Diabetic Patient with Insulin Shot for 28 Years

2. After looking at the writings and dance motions on my homepage, www.mryoum.com
I wish you could have second thoughts about - say, 'superstition and prejudice' - fixed ideas which one has believed as common sense in diabetes / geriatric disease / handicapped person / education / diet / dance / religion / theology / sermon/...

3. There are countless 'diabetes struggles' suffering in not only in Korea but also all over the world.
Although there are a lesser symptom and trivial complications in its first stage of diabetes, it is yet a frightful disease that grows into horrid complications in the passing of 10 years, 20 years, 30 years.

4. The biggest characteristic of diabetes is its progressive form(~ing).
The body with insulin shot for 10 years is one, and the body with insulin shot for 15 years is another, and the body with insulin shot for 20 years is still another. Over the 20th year, the body feels different each and every year. (In my case,)
I am surviving in the feeling that my body has changed even in only a few months.

5. As long as one has been ill with diabetes, his/her joints and muscles goes worse.
With only walking, one cannot have all his/her body's joints relieved.
Not only walking but also most exercises has their limitations in relieving the joints, muscles, blood vessels and nerves all over the body. (So are other 'progressive chronic diseases' called 'adult disease.')

6. Symptoms of patients suffering from diabetes are different from person to person.
The patient, who has difficulty even in walking, has to regulate time even in his/her walking. If the patient is the same as normal equal-age persons in all his/her physical function (due to new-developed diabetes), this patient is allowed to do exercise in the similar intensity to the normal persons.

7. I would like to suggest dancing--impromptu dance--to early-stage patients who fails to fulfill enough exercise quantity of the body with only walking.
In my experience, almost nothing is more helpful in joints, muscles, blood vessels and nerves, than taking a bath in hot water and dancing an impromptu dance.

8. In the interest of remaining lives and health regardless of social common sense, fixed ideas and secular thoughts, I would like to recommend impromptu dance to the patients of diabetes / arthritis / rheumatism, to the patients who have retrogressively - eroded bodies due to 'progressive chronic diseases' as time goes by - especially who have beginning-stage stiffness in their joints and muscles, and to the physically handicapped persons who have to live with serious handicappedness.

9. My favorite dances that I am fond of are mostly the line of soul(R&B).
Even though there is much influence of soul in my entire dance motions, I don't exclusively stick to soul. In my dancing, I just make out my own dance motions by interpreting and simulating the characteristics of various dances in my own way.

One characteristic of soul(R&B) line dance motions is, they prefer connective motions through soft and daring body expression rather than folding every joint of the body.
Because of this characteristic of soul dancing, one can have his body shape slim and his joints flexible if he/she keeps on dancing soul for a long period.

Speaking one more word about dance motions, my thinking is 'Dance doesn't unconditionally make the body shape slim and slender' Remember you will see there are exceptionally many soul dance motions, if you watch fancy- body black women dancers dancing in their 'music videos.'

10. "You can expand your wings of life as much as you could," according to your interpretation of diabetes no matter how seriously ill diabetic patient you are.
This hope is what I would like to show through my whole body as a diabetic patient and as a minister in a church myself.

11. The above has been a special lecture about dancing by the minister Youm Sangmyeong, who is a wailing free man and 'best dancer.'

Dance with me!

****Even though I too have greeting tomorrow itself approaching to me as dream and hope--the tomorrow could more likely mean no hopeful tomorrow--I am not even prepared enough to greet the hope.

What is important to me now is that "I am living" with this body in my conditions of life, confronting the world with the whole body, wailing, rolling, and even kicking and struggling in my adjusting the lights of the world with these eyes of mine.

Furthermore, there is still this assignment for me, that no matter how wicked and whimsical the present life is, "Life should go on into the future" ****

Lord, come by my Life !!!
your
us
P.216 of by Youm sangmyoung

**
One of the clearest characteristics of diabetes is its presentness(-ing).
In case of me who has had insulin injected for 28 years, I have been living still aware of my body changing even before a few months passing.
My dancing , www.mryoum.com

45-year-old Image ( as revealed in my ‘Self-Portrait’)

2005-05-29T01:20:00.000-07:00

*** (Book Introduction)

The 3rd Part,

Volume III . 45-year-old Image ( as revealed in my ‘Self-Portrait’)

*** My life
I wrote,
I made it into a book,
and I am spreading the books myself.

Aged 45, my standing is a minister/publisher/writer who is a seriously ill diabetic patient who has had insulin shot for 28 years. I was in the process of almost dying thoroughly for 2 years after taking RH-787 rat poison at 1977. Up until now, I have been afflicted with hundreds of relevant pathological phenomena...and plus the complications that any other diabetic patients might be suffering from.

And now that 28 years has passed since RH-787 poison taken, even Parkinson's disease has been developed to a certain degree because of another aftereffect that RH-787 poison has brought.

Even compared with other seriously ill diabetic patients, I have been living so hard because of the heart condition in which I could hardly adapt to anything relevant to 'heat' or 'hot temperature' such as sunlight/summer weather/steam/hot air/...during the life time due to the aftereffect since an attempt to kill myself by taking RH-787 poison.

Furthermore, I have to struggle against as far as 'various kinds of light' these days because of starting to be even allergic to light since 1990, according to the "present progressive form," the biggest characteristic of diabetes. And I am also suffering from hypersensitiveness to 'color.' Considering I am called professional in dancing, however, this fact is so paradoxical.

Yet, one of my life characteristics is to put an absurd story into practice, to show it through the body, and to make it into life.

Like I wrote in the 1st volume's greetings, I would like to put another importance on the words, 'life can be broadened to any amount, according to how you interpret the life.'

'Meaning of Book Publication'

*** Fall 1977,
My age then 17 (Born at 1960)
For more than 2 years after attempting to kill myself through RH-787(rat poison) of uncommon high toxicity that the authorities concerned gave to each home in the farm villages as a way of Kill-Rats Campaign at the time, I was going more and more to death slowly and miserably and thoroughly in an awkward condition either without living or without dying within the room.

The RH-787 that I chose to kill myself November 1977 had a characteristic far different from any other kinds of rat poison. The peculiarity of RH-787 is that 'it makes the poison-eater’s body itself dying slowly and thoroughly as time goes by.' It was a rare and uncommon rat poison carrying the attribute unique only to RH-787.
If it is any other rat poisons that you might took and survive without dying, then later you have a better chance of your body to be restored.

Different from other rat poisons and agricultural chemicals, however, this rat poison labeled RH-787 was a rare rat poison carrying the following attribute that, even if you might had survived at the time of taking poison, it made you die miserably by ruining all the functions of your body step by step as time goes by.

Due to the developed property of RH-787 after attempt to kill myself, I too was treated in the hospital at first. For 2-3 months after being discharged, I thought I'd be restored if only I try - even if I might not worry about the later days. Actually, for about 1 or 2 months, my physical condition was not too bad.
But starting from a few months after leaving hospital, my body turned into the body that had to lie on the bed even when I ate meals.

Text P.9 ‘Life with Feeling'

*** Again, my story shall go back to 1978.
Because my sisters thought strange of my body devastating enough not to sit up even at a moment at April 1978, they brought me to the hospital that I had been in at fall 1977 again for the last time.
My weight was 40kg in my memory at the time.

My height is 178 or 180cm. (So far, I have thought I was 178cm. But on the checkup at winter 2003, it was 179cm. Compared with the young lads who claims themselves to be 178cm, I measures 2cm higher than them.)
On the day, the sisters had to hear from the doctor that "Now, there is no hope" already in 6 months after I took RH-787 poison.

Since April 1778, my body grew more and more bony and destroyed.
My body shape at summer 1978 was, my face got swollen more yellowishly than wax, because with my unmovable body I had to keep lying on the bed gasping for breath by hanging only onto the electric fan for 24 hours each day all that burning hot summer like a steam booth1978, with a skinny skeletal body like African people who had been dying of starvation.
It left me with a bone skinny body and a big swollen face settled down upon the bone....

It was not until then that I knew man has his body become like a ‘mantis’ in proportion as one gets skinnier and skinnier.
This image is ‘my self-portrait of summer 1978.’

Text P. 27-28 ‘Life with Feeling'

*** In April that others express as ‘mild’weather, whenever I feel deeper oppression because I have my body fevered and my blood heated and my heart shocked if my body gets exposed to just a little more sunlight and if my body moves just a little farther than usual, in that case even if there may be any kindness from others, any good house, any attentiveness from parents and siblings.., I don’t need as any other such as such at that moment.

Rather, all you need at the moment is only ‘mildly-cool water’ in which you can keep your body until your heart becomes secure. But in order to do this, you have to continue to dip your body in the bathtub in the bathroom or even in the kitchen in such unclothedness as you please.

If there is any who has lived without perishing in those days out of all RH-787 poison eaters and who has lived in the similar body condition to mine, they might naturally have needed these conditions of life in order to prolong their hard lives any longer.
Yet even this desperate act that RH-787 eaters chose to do for survival might have been looked upon as an ‘act of a crazy nut’ if their circumstances fell short of this condition.

For RH-787 poison eaters or the souls who died in long unreasonably painful suffering of their later lives due to type 1 diabetes and any kind of complications, this kind of book, a ‘book as bitter as gall’ written by somebody like this uncommon and queer minister guy should have been published 10 or 20 years ago and its con
At least, that’s what I think.

Text P.59 ‘Life with Feeling'

*** The over-all society between mid 70ies and late 70ies in Korea was too different from nowadays.
Take a residential matter for one example, studio-type apartments (called officetel or one room in Korean) that we now often see is but a residential culture that appeared much later.

The late 70ies is no earlier than 25~30 years ago. But the late 70ies was the times when there were few spaces where one could live alone. Even if you might have gotten a self-boarding room with a kitchen with the help of your family, it was the times in which you must have had to boil water depending on a briquette fire pot or an oil stove.
Until mid-or-late 70ies, they mostly depended on Yeontan, or coal briquette, while nowadays most houses’ heating depends on oil or gas boiler. I am able to stabilize my heart within faster time because I could get warm water easily in the oil or gas boiler, while it took tens of minutes to get water heated on a briquette fire pot.

Beyond this living condition, or apart from parents’ mixed feelings of love and hatred towards their child who attempted killing oneself with poison in front of parents, yet how many parents would there have been who would be ready to comply with going-away-from-home opinion of their child whose living looked perilous due to the ill body, and who would have bought a monthly payment room or deposit-money-based house for that son...? This would have been the reality that RH-787 poison eaters were faced with.

Though to be mentioned later, I have endured each tiring summer painfully every year since August 1979 in the following places, that is, in the coolest area within the Seonggyungwan University Suwon Yuljeon campus March ’82.’83, in a temple at Taebaek of Gangwon Province May ’84.’85, in a church ’86, in a billiards ’87, again in a temple at Taebaek of Gangwon Province ’88.’89, in a church ’90, and alone since spring ’91.
I know this history of my life is not the ‘privilege’ applicable to every RH-787 poison eater.

For the poison eaters who have as far as their hearts ruined by taking RH-787, it itself is a great ‘privilege’ that one can live at least in such living condition as mine where hot temperature can be avoided.

If they had fallen short of this living condition, or if RH-787 eaters are supposed to have suffered due to such symptoms as mine, they could have gotten away from themselves and from their own neighbors only by being crazy without being able to be dying reasonably ‘even in dying process’ because they have such horrible bodies.

At this opportunity, though it might be too late, I would like to tell that fact to the flesh and blood of RH-787 poison eaters.

By virtue of the odd symptoms that were not understandable to others, this minister Youm Sangmyoung - who calls himself ‘Wailing Freeman’ - as late as now speaks ‘how serious the life of RH-787 eaters has been’ in ‘living without perishing’ in place of the suffers who had to die in traumatizing not only themselves but also their family members, and in place of those who had earlier died in painful suffering desperately and miserably, because they had the aftereffect of RH-787 poison.

Text P.60-62 ‘Life with Feeling'

*** The life achieved in the middle of the hope to have disconnected, or in the hope less than 1% - this, Christianity calls ‘miracle’ or ‘salvation.’

If this theological term or idea is considered in relation to my life, I would like to say myself that how I began to survive through religious experience in dying sorrowfully in 2 years after taking rat poison is indeed a miracle, and how I passed college entrance qualification exam in 70 days with this awkward body and how I entered Seonggyungwan University Landscape Department by studying for about 110 days is a miracle too.

Even now if I only keep reading or writing as long as an hour, I have my eyes hurt, blurred, reddish and as far as swollen.
Especially the computer screen makes my eyes swollen even before in 30 minutes, whereas I am writing even this book.

Not only for others but also for me, a miracle is not far away.
I would say, the past uncommon life I had, the tiring process I have to live struggling, or the present life I am trying vehemently, these kind of life itself is a ‘miraculous life’ that is attained in a ‘state beyond the line of common sense.’

Up until here, there were so many times when I would find myself troubled, bored, irritated, spiteful or crazily-shouting if I look at mere a day, mere a month or mere a year. Without stopping there, living itself was so skeptical that there were also many times that I wanted to give up my entire life itself.

But looking at 30 years later from now at this point of 45, I am only thankful that I have continued to persist in my life even in the middle of many-sided living and experiences, and that I am living on carrying that out.

9

I think ‘faith’ is ‘struggling not to let go of the rope of hope’ where there seems to be no hope.
If I as a minister add one to this above,
‘by reason of Jehovah!’
‘because of Jehovah!’
I would like to say, it is faith, prayer, belief and patience when hope being conceived, when one looking up to the hope and when one continuing to achieve the hope, and it is human salvation and God’s working when one is in the process of holding on firmly to the hope and when in the state of having held it firmly.

When so-long-awaited hope is achieved, the shouting toward God is thanks and praise.

That shouting, that thanks, that praise, I would only like to feel with the whole body.
Still, I am trying to.

Text P.146-149 'Words can become a seed'

***
The my homepage www.mryoum.com is , as a seriously diabetic patient, as a grave handicapped man(?), as a minister, and as a Korean identity - the more real reason is so that I may impart my life that cannot be kept only to myself over to not only Korea but also to somewhere far wider than Korea.

The Savior, Dear God Hiding Behind Us! -(religion / theology / sermon)

2005-05-29T00:51:00.000-07:00

** Book Introduction - The Savior, Dear God Hiding Behind Us!
(religion / theology / sermon)

The 2nd Part,
Volume 2. The Savior, Dear God Hiding Behind Us!

*** Important to Jesus religion are
"not formality of religion but content,"
"not perfunctory justice but love,"
"not theory but practice."
After all, we have been taught that peace is not words but action of peace, not dogmatic instruction but human life itself.

However active women's movement is in 21st century, in reality the world order has been ruled through masculine theories of ruling such as violence, submission, performance(effect), command or ideology in most global areas so far as today.

Human history has the end at the end.
Matthew 5:9 says, 'Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.' Even if it is the Sermon on the Mount that was neither achieved nor will hereafter by human race, we may hand down the way, the truth and the life to the descendants only by the time when we have this spirit as a fundamental principle of human world.

In fact, it is the most important that Christians, Muslims, advanced countries, under-developed countries, haves, have-nots, normal persons, handicapped ones,..everybody gathers together into a world for ourselves.

We have come to a point where it should be remembered that the peacemakers - the children of God - cannot be practical history-transmitters and life-imparters until everybody meets together to make the peace ourselves not as you or me, which is the project remaining to current human race that we must consider.

The word 'we' includes as far as the future and posterity concepts. In order to touch on future and posterity, we should previously treat of 'war,' 'economy,'..problems together with the words, 'environmental pollution,' 'natural resources shortage' and such.'
'The Savior, Dear God Hiding Behind Us!' is the sermon collection that tried to be treated of these problems lying in humans.
'Meaning of Book Publication'

*** Human life doesn't mean today.
Man cannot tell history until he is on the belief that ‘there was yesterday, is today and will be tomorrow too.'

21 century should be the time when the three words I, you and we are balanced and harmonized according to the 'global age.' And in so being, these three words should prevail over and be encouraged in all areas of human life as well as theology. This dreamer-like belief is what I have.
I think culture is a product of the times and the key that draws the times at the same time. Because of that, I think it is natural to emphasize historical mind, social consciousness, contemporary situation, reinterpretation, meaningful delivery and application in the sermon that leads Christianity culture.
Only if so, the audience can have the rightful spirit of the Good News planted, and can transmit 'their history of human personality, their history made by humans and their environment connecting the human history' down to the descendents of tomorrow. With this in mind, I am writing down this exclusive sermon of mine.
From Text P.8-9

*** "Come to think of how many years I've been away from home
My youth days are now gone~ in about ten years since this strange land

~Omission~

The willow at home village might be also green this spring
Yet, I miss those good old days~ blowing the flute with a willow twig"

If Go Boksu sings 'In The Strange Land' passionately, there are women shedding tears here and there in the performance and afterwards even men turning reddish around the eyes. (What is as similar as Go Boksu's is the part 'Going home' in Dvorak's 'New World Symphony.' A mere difference is, the displaced people in 'Going Home's backdrop are Czech folks, not Korean.)

Their 'weariness in strange lands,' 'bitter tears in strange lands,' and 'desperation and emptiness in the strange lands,' which they had hidden inside their bosoms, were absorbed in the lyrics of 'In The Strange Land,' finally leading to but few of them killing themselves. That is not the kind of popular song that we now think.

For, Go Boksu expressed the 'life in the strange land' a stranger wished to whine about only too relevantly. Without knowing such bitterness in the strange land, the part which one could not even explain of is Isaiah 40-50.
From 'See Thy God!' Text P.44

*** In old times, they regarded it as wise to live one's best within not straying from the right path as a human, by combining God and man. But in modern times where man lost nature, there is 'nature' added.

These three sit together in the organic relationship.
The Christianity of today and tomorrow requires each faithful human to lead one's life by bearing his or her own mission on the shoulder as an as an and as an .
From 'Wisdom' Text P.123

*** What is associated with hearing these words is the opposite situation, namely, the people that had a dreadful war, the people that have lost the war, the vineyard that has been plundered, the families that have their members killed in youth and scattered apart, and the society where they fight and quarrel against each other to live where there is no effort rewarded and no prayer answered. You should first surmise these realities sit as the historical context in the text in order to interpret rightly.

So the new heaven and earth is the world opposite from the society of these realities, namely, the society where Jehovah's justice, Jehovah's compassion and Jehovah's reign prevails.
From 'New Heaven and Earth,' Text P.149

*** In God's people's eyes, the redemption period didn't dawn since after the exilic period. The promise of redemption written in Isaiah(down from 40) was certainly not come to pass. Especially the details written of the redemption period to come forth still did not come to pass.
But faith is like this,
'to them crying in the hardships had Yahweh God granted them salvation. Faith is to acknowledge and endure that God lives and acts in the history only in that process of redemption' (See the Exodus 2:23-25)

The Isaiah 61:1-3 is proclaimed again in the Luke 4:16 through reinterpretation.
Though not in the prophet's period, Isaiah's proclamation has eventually been fulfilled through perdurable vitality, which can be told.
The reason why we repeat studying Israeli history through sermon is so that we shall learn their 'perdurable vitality' through the history of hardship that Israel suffered.
For, it is only in the process in which Israel prolongs its vitality with perdurability that we can learn that God of life acts in the history through His word.

The Bible works for us to learn in the middle of principle of dynamics and principle of paradox. What is important is, today's text has influence on up to us through the history of 'reinterpretation.'

If a kingdom of priests or a chosen generation(comparison between Exodus 19:6 and 1 Peter 2:9-10) applies to each of you, the 'Hephzibah' among words of today's text the Isaiah 62:1-5 can be interpreted as 'my joy is in you' to dear you.

Dear everybody! You are the chosen people. Please be proud to be yourself the people of the kingdom!
From 'My Joy Is In You,' Text P.178-179

*** Spirit or trend of thought(-ism) is a product of the times. It is not inadvertently formed.

It is said that the kingdom of Heaven has begun by Jesus' coming down on the earth. That is, to emphasize the 'presentness of the Kingdom of Heaven' is a product of 'rationalism.' The word of heaven that Jesus sowed produced seedlings among people. Through the efforts of his disciples and other Christians, the seeds of Heaven have borne fruit as 60-or-100-times-or-more expanded kingdoms. (See Mark 4:8)

The interpretation by rationalism is, the expansion of heaven as well will produce a good result like the seeds that grow into grains through human endeavor and will.
In the meantime, there are rather often cases that man’s wisdom brings any destructive result. (Consider what Genesis 3,4,11 mean.)

Through the cream war in Europe(1854~1856, one that gave motive to the Worldwide Red Cross Movement), through the 'World War I' 1914~1918, and through the 'World War II' 1939~1945, they began to reflect on 'rationalism's opinion that puts importance on man’s reason, or man’s power.

They saw that the man's power and man's wisdom that had been pursued by man resulted not in goodness, but in 'destructiveness.' So people began to reconsider the thinking that the word that Jesus sowed on the earth becomes the seed that shall grow still greater(4:30~32) and more expansive.
From 'Even At Night You Sleeps,' Text P.256-257

*** Even though man thinks, contrives and acts, there is God hiding beyond human behavior, but it is God who plans, proceeds with and attains his own providence of human salvation. This is what 'God hiding behind=the Savior' is for.

Bible writers try to remind their descendants that although hiding in the Bible verses such as today's text Isaiah 45:15, Exodus 2(Story of Moses) and others, there is yet always God's providence in human history.

Through the Isaiah 40~55, one can see God who conceives(Isaiah 44:24), gives birth(42:14), brings up(46:4), prepares(49:1) and create(45:9-10), that is, God who emphasizes the attribute of the mother.

The writer tried to remind readers of God's amazing compassion through the symbol of 'the Savior=God hiding behind man' who is greater than the mother of apprehensive, heartwarming and devoted love.
From 'The Savior, Dear God Hiding Behind Us!' Text P.278-279

**
I made this homepage with the theme of "tomorrow," "future," "hope," "descendants" and "continuity of culture" in the ocean of Internet liable to flow into more light and sensual direction.
Relation contents it sees more, http://www.mryoum.com/

Minister Youm Sangmyoung’s ...at the corner of Korea.

About Diabetes story- “Still I'd Like To Live” - Book Introduction

2005-05-29T00:14:00.000-07:00

The 1st Part,
Volume 1. Still I'd Like To Live - Book Introduction

About Diabetes story - “Still I'd Like To Live” - Book Introduction

** But for the patients who have to fight against disease throughout their life times, they should know that the spirit, 'I'll survive to the very end' is the best and the final weapon, rather than one or two modes or personal know-hows.

According to how to use this weapon, success or failure of one's struggle against illness is decided. In this sense, we should know that the spirit above refers more strongly to 'hard-striving spirit,' 'serene attitude,' 'the historical view that I must live without dying,' rather than the modes how I can see the effect right at the moment.

Even if all kinds of patients, who confront a long term struggle against disease, might hang on to the struggle against the disease with their every best endeavor, yet not all of them acquire their ever desired result in their hands. Only, the strivers have more probability to get the desired result than the others.

I am also hanging on to it with my whole body and soul in order to make this probability higher.
If life gives man a result in proportion to his or her endeavors, the gloom realities of today wouldn't even have existed.

The uncertain word called 'tomorrow' demands only too much from me.
Text P.15-16 ‘Still I'd Like To Live’

*** In the situation one could go crazy out of deplorableness only with his or her ruined body, yet without blinking a eye on such mental stress of the patient, our society treats them by taking their words, 'I am seriously ill' as if 'I am a sinner.' This holds true like common sense in our society.

As these unreasonable pieces of judging are accepted generally in the society, so sufferer's bitterness builds up out of crumpled pride socially and economically only by reason of 'he or she is disease-stricken in the body.' In that situation, even between spouses there are only too many cases of living with bloody bruises in the bosom even like a drooped-down secrete 'member' of the body.

I am writing this essay in order to give the suffering readers some encouragement through the following words 'without heads down, lead confidence' at least to family members as in the saying, 'without your teeth, use your gum,' by introducing cool sex conception as an alternative even though they have no fluttering 'members,' rather than they lead their lives with heads down for their remaining lives, in proportion to such impotent male patients.

Meanwhile, I would like to make sure this is the matter of basic right and existent right as a basic human being, not the matter of obscenity.
Text P.165 ‘Still I'd Like To Live’

*** But, reality is too hard.
In proportion to increased artificial space - urbanization, modernization - made by man, there has been coming up too many a factor conducive to spoiling human eye sight.

No matter how worried public broadcasting media pretend to be about 'diabetes commotion' domestically and socially, they don't even suggest by identifying the existent problems in modern society. This reality applies not only to our country but to all over the world as well.

Such being the case in reality, there is such confusion between general information and prejudice, fiction and fact, belief and superstition,..as regards diabetes, that even inaccurate fixed ideas have set in among general facts.

Now, my eyes have hypersensitive reaction to not only heat and light but even color as well. Among red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet, the 6 colors except violet are allergic to the eye in the order of from latter to former.
'Influence of Heat on the Eyes of Diabetic Patients,'
'Allergic Reaction of Light Wavelength against Eyesight of Diabetic Patients,'
'Influence of Food's Calorie on the Eye,'...
If medical students study these subjects and come out with scientific papers and accordingly find solutions, I suppose diabetic patients will have gotten rather more comfortable to live on in 10 or 20 years.

Although red is the most stimulating color to the eye, red or orange is the most commonly-used light in Korea as far as 80~90%.
By a desperate measure, I live upon sun glasses, but this as well makes me frustrated. Diabetics in Korea are suffering in the reality where they have money but cannot get just what lenses they desperately need. By obtaining deep blue, deep green or deep black lens to keep off ultraviolet rays or light, I do want to wear those lenses after processing them according to my eyes' best fitting, yet there is still nothing of these pure blue, pure indigo or pure black in Korea. (It is the case at least to the best of my knowledge.)

To be sorry, eye-worst reddish tone is seasoned with deep blue, deep indigo or deep black lens currently sold in the market. This is what reality I have been faced with. Other people already have their eyes hurt or gone blind before they could even tell these words, whereas I have been striving to find any solution by even squirming and struggling till the end of my life, out of wish to live(?) like a human to the end.

Because I couldn't just look at the ruining bodies with hands down, I had to writhe in agony to find any alternative. Now, I am speaking out as far as to the parts where diabetic predecessors didn't spoke out.
Text P.234~235 ‘Still I'd Like To Live’

*** I would like to meet the people who have lived for 26 years since taking RH787 poison, or wouldn't mind whether it's 20, 30 years or so.
If there are at least any few who took RH787 poison who still now live, I would like to find out through them 'what lives have they lived!' Or, how are they living? by encountering other people with their uncommon seriously-handicapped bodies, and how have they managed to survive!'... Up to these, I would like to know.

By meeting my species(?) before I die and by laying bare my blood-bruised bosom which can never be shown to other species, I would like to have it gush out like lava even if just once, the blood-red sediment of mine deposited more clearly than the sunset glow.

I would like to add a peace of saying, for the good of people whose lives are to embrace each share(!) of the lives in their last-ditch fights, in their forcible endurance, in their vomiting and in their tumbling even until their last breath.

"No matter how hard walking and exercising is because of your ruined body as a patient, even if there is only the least strength to wriggle only your hands and feet, would you practice bathing in hot water, massaging in oil, fingering you body.., diligently please! If there is nothing remaining to do for yourself, you cannot but hold fast to this at the least."
Each life whose living has been hard to survive has to learn how to live with one's own body 'even if I die when I die,' so that mine may not be 'my life as a dog' even until the moment that I die.

For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope:
for a living dog is better than a dead lion. (Ecclesiastes 9:4)
Text P.292-293 ‘Still I'd Like To Live’

*** There are unexpected blind alleys(?) in one's living process.
Dung, urine, semen, money, credit, parent-child, friendship, human relationship, education,.. If even a normal person is interfered with by mere 1 or 2 of these matters, the person gets into fidgeting in difficulty of living. By how much more problems will he be interfered with, suppose the '20 year old man' who would be living, or would have to live, under more unprivileged situation than others?

Even healthy, intelligent, wealthy and handsome superiors get restless if they are interfered with by mere one or two problems. How much more 'stifled' will the opposite insufficient inferiors become, or feel 'breathless' as in a Korean expression, if they are interfered with by many worse problems, to make matters worse? This situation needs at least any breakthrough to take breath.

On the earth, there are characters who have to express their inside even through the acts that are exposed to finger-pointing by others. Even so, we should accept there are people who must do at least any kind of those acts in order to maintain themselves.

Social prejudice is, we are apt to judge one's whole being from his or her 'behavioral results' only, without considering the causes and motives of the 'stifled' characters.
'Human alienation' is bad, which has been cried out countlessly by many such as journalists, religionists, politicians, educators,..all over the world. Still the crying goes on. Nevertheless, there always exists alienation in the world where people live.

It's true that world countries put up 'freedom and equality' as their national government ideology, but I would like to ask, are there any 'true freedom and equality'?
The answer is up to you.

Most of realities move by the orientation of normal persons, male persons, white persons, bright persons, wealth and power, healthy persons,... To be sorry, 'freedom and equality' proposed, advocated and drawn by them is none other than 'discriminated freedom and equality.'
Even this 'discriminated freedom and equality' has to be gotten and maintained more by the one who has been living 'under-privileged life' or 'painful life,' who is living, who has to live on in the future, so that he or she may cherish one's own 'self-respect as a life.'

Even if it's half as much 'freedom and equality' as others, it must be acquired for the good of one's own life.
In this process, even if you might suffer contempt, sneering or trampling by others, you must do 'any form of struggling' - regardless of whether you are alone - so that you cherish self-respect as a human being.
If you desert even this self-respect yourself, then you become none other than a 'life to be trampled.'
Text P.320-321 ‘Still I'd Like To Live’

** Wailing Freeman, Minister Yeom Sangmyeong’s Life of Diabetes.

1) One of the clearest characteristics of diabetes is its presentness(-ing).
Insulin shot for 10 years is one different, insulin shot for 15 years is another different, and insulin shot for 20 years is yet another different. In case of me who has had insulin injected for 28 years, I have been living still aware of my body changing even before a few months passing.

2) My one, www.mryoum.com is my personal homepage that I helped make, so that people might think over the fixed ideas that they have believed to be common sense about diabetes/handicapped person/dancing/diet/education/religion/theology/sermon.., which have been commonly accepted so far.

- Wailing Freeman, Minister Youm sangmyoung ....at the corner of Korea.