Ellis Calcutt Harry Styles
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Last year I was diagnosed with psoriasis -- a chronic autoimmune skin disease that causes severe, permanent damage to the skin and leads to less than satisfactory personal and emotional hygiene. Measles is the yellow-fever virus that causes chicken pox. We were made to believe that our best hope for fighting the virus was using a vaccine to prevent it from attacking us, but the virus has no true natural way of attacking us. The only thing that it can do is cause our epidermal cells to tear out their nerves, so our immune systems are stuck unable to identify and get rid of the virus. Our best chance at finding a cure would be to control the virus within us, and if we can do that, then the majority of those with eczema (which is much worse than psoriasis) could be cured simultaneously.
My dad has psoriasis and I lived in Los Angeles for my first 16 years of life. I never knew why, until I returned to Seattle 6 weeks ago. Something about being in Seattle meant that I had to start realizing what I had been secretly fighting since childhood. I vowed that I would change my life, and I have. Now I take every day as it comes, because I believe that every struggle brings clarity to the person who is experiencing it.
When did I start fighting for my life? For the past 2 years before returning to Seattle I was unemployed, living in one room of a friend's house with a 14-year-old boy whose parents weren't home. After not having any income for two years, I decided that I needed to make money. I started selling plastic bags and supplies at Dollarama and PBR during the week.
I quickly realized that I was falling short in a number of areas, and after seeing how people I worked with were getting great results, I knew that I needed help.
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