hey everyone so as you might have seen
in the video title I was sick for a bit
and I was hospitalized for one week and
I decided to make a video body for two
reasons one is that I just wanted to
give you a quick update on what's going
on with my life just in case you were
curious about why you know I haven't
been uploading any videos recently and
the second reason is that I felt like I
learned a lot through this experience
and I just wanted to share some of those
lessons with you today okay so let me
just quickly explain what happened
exactly so about two weeks ago I had
what I thought was just a cold you know
I was just sneezing and coughing and
stuff but then a few days later I
started having these really bad vision
problems I had this really bad double
vision everywhere everything looked
doubled you know that's why I have this
eyepatch thing right now and then
everything started looking blurry and I
wouldn't be shaky and basically my eyes
my eyes were fixed in a you know certain
position and that's what I have right
now - and then you know they didn't know
what was going on at the beginning so I
when I went to the hospital they I
started doing some tests and it took
them a few days to figure out what it
was exactly but then they found that I
have this rare condition called Miller
feature so after they knew what it was I
started getting treatment and after one
week or so I was able to get out of
hospital and come back home here and you
know I'm gonna try to get back into my
regular routines as much as possible so
I can make videos again and you know
start doing more coding again but
unfortunately might take me a while to
get back into that because apparently it
takes most people with this condition at
least two to three months to recover
completely visual wise so I might be
like a little bit you know slower than
usual until my visions back to normal
alright so that's my personal update but
let me now quickly talk about some of
the things I learned
through this whole experience just in
case you might find them useful too
I'm just gonna share you know just three
of them even though there were other
ways since I learned to the first one of
those is about not caring about small
things you know I feel like I have this
natural tendency to be sort of neurotic
and you know worry about a lot of things
one example is when I'm having a
conversation or when I'm missing you
someone I might say something and I
might worry a lot about what the other
person thinks or if I might you know
offend them and stuff like that but then
when I was at the hospital when I was
going through a lot of distress I just
couldn't care about those things because
you know I was worrying about like am I
gonna eat today and oh my god I be able
to like have my vision back and am I
gonna vomit or not today and stuff like
that so when I thought about like those
other things they just seemed so small
and not that important and I feel like I
brought some of that perspective back
even now so when I think about like
those small problems now I just think as
long as I'm healthy as long as I have my
vision still I'm happy with that
and I realized that I don't have to
worry about those you know small things
anymore the second thing I learned is
actually about a software development so
when I started having this condition
about two weeks ago my eye so it was
like even worse than it is now you know
like I said earlier a lot of double
vision
everything looks shaky and blurry and
looking at anything was really hard and
like even reading on the screen I
couldn't do it properly so I started
using this feature called voiceover on
iphone let me just quickly show you what
it's like first so once you turn on
voiceover
it starts reading everything on the
screen that you touch
so for example on the home screen you
can basically touch the screen to you
know try to find the app that you want
to launch Google Maps Safari so gonna
per page two and five a job done Forrest
double tap to open and then once you
find it you know in this case forest one
of my favorite apps you can just do this
to launch what's that forest double tap
to open forest many BTN new and then in
the app itself to you know I can just
touch the screen to try to find the
button and that I wanna click just like
that so it's a good feature for anyone
who's visually impaired or blind but it
turned out not all apps support
voiceover equally for example for
messaging I personally found that you
know I messages and Facebook Messenger
are pretty pretty easy to use with
voiceover and they support voiceover you
know better than some of the other
messaging apps for example slack or
Instagram so I would say you know if
you're ever in a position to develop an
app or maybe a website I think it would
be really great if you could take a
moment to think about people like me and
other people who have vision problems or
other disability issues that make it
harder for them to use your app and you
know if you could think about like how
to make your app as accessible as
possible to as many people as possible I
think there'll be a good thing all right
the third and final lesson that I
learned through this experience that I
wanted to share today is about how
important it is to have strong
relationships I mean it's like a cliche
but I really think it's true you know
when I was at the hospital like I
mentioned earlier I was going through a
lot of emotional and physical distress
and honestly I was having hard times
like I cried a little bit and basically
like it was really tough for me and what
helped me get through was the fact that
I had my girlfriend around you know she
was visiting me a lot and helping me
with like food and
and the fact that I had friends come
over sometimes and visit me in person or
call me or message me to encourage me
and you know that was like really
helpful and you know who you are if
you're one of those people I already
thanked them but I want to thank them
again here all right
so that's all I wanted to talk about in
this video thank y'all so always for
watching my videos and by the way thank
you for letting me hit 1 million
subscribers this is like super exciting
to me I thought I was gonna hit it you
know at some point but I didn't think I
was gonna hit you know this landmark so
soon so I'm super psyched about that
thank you
it's like the population of Vancouver I
guess my next goal is gonna be 1 million
followers on Instagram and 10 million
here on YouTube yeah I don't know if I
can get there but I'll try my best
anybody thank you so much and I'll see
you guys in the next video