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Long absence

(Originally posted on February 18, 2011) Now I see that I had been away from this blog for more than three months. The reason isn’t as trite as you think it is— I won’t say that I was too busy or I forgot that I had this blog. Simply that my mind had been occupied with one important thing: my own health. I have a few pituitary hormone deficiencies. My pituitary got damaged at birth, and I don’t have some important hormones your body usually needs. It seems that my body is weaker than normal (don’t know for sure as I never borrowed somebody else’s body), and my metabolism had […]

25 random things about me (2nd version)

About myself, Blog / Koji Otsuki

(Originally posted on my facebook page in 2009) 1. I was born with hypopituitarism (pituitary dwarfism), and used to self-inject HGH (human growth hormone) into my thighs everyday growing up. 2. Because of my hormone situation, I was still a soprano when I was 20 years old. I never really experienced adolescence in the way normal kids do. I might still be in pubertal stage without the surge in hormone production. 3. My dad, a limnologist and a retired environmental chemistry professor, is now an amateur beekeeper, and my mom is a potter and a calligrapher. 4. My sister and I once had chipmunks as pets. 5. I think cilantro

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