The Best Investment I Ever Made

You can only control your health, your wealth, and yourself. Today, I'll talk about the importance of the first variable, and why you should consider a trip to a medical nutritionist.

Dear Fellow Expat,

On my 33^rd birthday, I woke up with a pain in my sternum.

It felt like someone had pushed an icepick between my ribs.

Two weeks later, the pain spread to my shoulder.

A month later, it was in my hip. A month after that, it was in my entire right arm.

I couldn’t lift my right arm over my shoulder.

To type, I had to use my left hand to pick up my right wrist and drop it on the keyboard.

Two months later, I couldn’t walk.

An emergency room doctor at the University of Maryland said it was all in my head and accused me of seeking Oxycontin for the pain (I never even asked for pain medication… I asked them to diagnose me… and figure out what was wrong).

A doctor at Johns Hopkins suggested that I might be facing Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or Lou Gehrig’s disease. Then, after telling me this, I couldn’t get them on the phone ever again. That was a brutal month.

Finally, a doctor at Mercy Hospital saw a scar on my hand and diagnosed me with Psoriatic Arthritis. She prescribe…