My Strong Buddy-Guard Joshi

 Tuesday 22^nd July, 2014

Joshi is the (platonically just-as-a-friend) boy next door (/few streets away) that every girl should have.

Learn what you will about Joshi from this picture haha xD (he’s the one mid-air with his blazer on backwards) xD Image from Joshi’s camera.

When ambushed by crippling cramps and weird blindness whilst biking, he’s the guy who’ll chuck you on your bike and push both his and your bikes UP that hill to a friend’s house for comfort (Joshi: “That was an interesting day!”). He’s the guy who will text you funny poems every once in a while, to make you smile (and to satisfy his secret inner desire to be a rapper). He’s the guy who will hook you up with free doughnuts. He’s the guy who you used to see so often that you have his mother’s and sister’s cell-phone numbers, and his mother has taught you how to say ‘marry me’ in her native tongue. He’s the guy that is the reason you nearly failed high school calculus, because he’s always distracting and playing pranks on you. Then he’s the guy who will come to the library with you so you can study calculus, but will end up making you play cards instead.

He is my self-designated ‘buddyguard’ xD (buddy + bodyguard :P).

Joshi is legitimately one of the NICEST, most happy-go-lucky guys I know.

Which is why it sucks that life has thrown decidedly not nice, not happy, not lucky things at his body 😦

He’s only 22 years old, but here are a few of the health problems he’s already undergone:

1. Cataracts. On both eyes. He had to get them surgically removed over a period lasting a month. (He tells me that he could see the blood come out of his eye!)
2. Eczema and perpetual itching all over his body, since young.
3. Skin infections on his face and upper neck – his skin literally peeled off. The now-exposed under-skin was raw, itchy, and super-painful (a “very unfortunate combination” because he couldn’t scratch it). After the skin dried up, it was puffy. They put his face in chemical (potassium permanganate) baths. His body was wrapped up in wet bandages.
4. Hospitalised when the infection occurred more intensely than usual – and the doctors were baffled. They considered lupus at one point.
5. The doctors are still baffled.

I know that compared to what a lot of the world is experiencing right now, this list is not that much (at least he has access to healthcare, he’s got a family to look after him, etc), but his pain is still pain. Yet, through it all, even though he has every right to complain, I’ve never heard him moan once (well. Except for once about the boringness of lying around in hospital all day). He’s always laughing and smiling.

Joshi, how you so cool 🙂

Joshi doesn’t go a day without laughing or making someone else laugh 🙂 Image from Joshi’s facebook album.