Amanda Hwang's Blog

My health has been horrible for awhile, and I can't get it to improve. I'm convinced my health is the result of bad complications of plastic surgery. My mom had me get liposuction and a chin implant when I was 23 or 24 years old. While I could tolerate the effects of liposuction, I couldn't tolerate the chin implant. The chin implant stretched out the skin and made movement with my mouth, including laughing, smiling, talking, and eating, incredibly uncomfortable. Well, once I had the chin implant removed in the year 2016, things went downhill. I've since gained a lot of weight and have had trouble losing it. I'm used to having good health, eating right, and exercising, but none of that has been working recently. I'm also used to maintaining a healthy weight of 130 pounds (even went down to 109 pounds), but currently, I weight about 200 pounds. For my height, that's very unhealthy. Due to the ill effects that I'm suffering from recently, I'm having a ...

I haven't found a church that I like since being back at home, which is Fresno. During four years of college, I had a church that I went to weekly. In the year 2010-2011, I was able to fellowship with fellow Christians through Valley of Grace in Fresno, which is the English Ministry affiliate of the Korean Presbyterian church. One of the members was Jane S. Moon, who I mentioned in a previous post as introducing me to her college roommate Tracey Kim. Through that connection, I was able to attend Emmanuel Presbyterian Church a few times while a student at Columbia Nursing. Since then, I haven't felt the inclusion I had before, and it's honestly been really hard living life without a church that I connect with. In addition to partaking in worshipping God, church allows members to fellowship with each other. I don't know whether I need to wait to relocate (once I obtain my BSN degree in Fresno) or to work harder in finding a church in Fresno. I think I've moved on past...