Friends, Family and MS-Theories Pt. 1

I live by my fathers support and the rent my brother is paying for living in my (unfortunatly dead since many years) grandparents apartment.

My balinese family is basically the family of my friend and brother Oki – owner of kokiktattoo. So I am in close contact to his wife, children and parents.

Kokik and his wife

But let´s get to the point now.

I am officially suffering under Multiple Sclerosis since my diagnose early 2012. Tracing back my earliest symptoms like Tremor and Fatigue, I am getting on the year 2000. As it is scientifically not possible to determine which kind of MS it is and I can´t remember having any relapses, my doctor defined it as PPMS (primary-progredient).

Might be.

After the first shock, I did quite some research on my own, basically I studied my kind of MS, lets call it PPMS from now on. Pretty soon I realized that I cant expect any help  from modern-western medicine which was the first step in leading me to where I am right now: Renon / Denpasar / Bali / Indonesia, the island of gods.

Bali-Bule

So here I am.

Kind of living on the Island Of Gods with primary-progredient MS (PPMS) and by 650 € a month. “Kind of” because I am just on a tourist-visa and after the first 2 month I have to extend it at the immigrassi here in Denpasar every month for another month. There are literally thousands of well-informed Blog-Postings about the different visa you can get, to tell you about these isn´t my concern.

“Bule” is the indonesian word for “white-skinned foreigner” and nowadays its not really meant disrespectful anymore.

“Kind of living” also because I am just here since 15th of march, so not long enough to say I am really living here in my opinion. I call it “living with open-end”.

I have been here for an internship-semester in 2016 the first time and got fascinated by Balis culture and its people. Also I got my own theory for my MS – how I got it, what are the reasons behind it and some ideas how to get hopefully rid of it on the other side of the  world. In my theory(!) Bali offers the possibilities for that. I will explain these ideas in a later post.