Kwon Oh-joong breaks down in tears over diagnosis that his son may die before age 15: "My wife and I kept it hidden from each other"

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Actor Kwon Oh-joong revealed the difficulty he experienced after receiving a diagnosis stating that his son could potentially die from a rare disease.

Kwon recently appeared on the YouTube channel 'Sebasit Lecture,' where he shared updates on his current activities as an essay writer and spoke about a child suffering from a rare disease.

On that day, Kwon stated, "Our child was weak from birth. It was just weakness, but when he was around 5 or 6 years old, he developed a fever on the weekend. We had been to the emergency room before, so I thought, 'He has a fever again,' but after a blood test, the doctor looked serious and said his blood levels were too high."

He continued, "Because they spoke that way, I assumed it was just due to the fever and went to and from the filming location. When I turned on the light in the dark living room, my wife and mother-in-law had swollen eyes. After the examination, the doctor said he had a muscular dystrophy." He added, "There are people who have that disease, so I will not disclose the specific name of the illness. When I first heard it was called muscular dystrophy, I searched for it on the internet and found out it is a disease where muscles gradually atrophy until death. The shock hit me then. With my wife present, I turned on the water and cried."

He said, "In the very end, it dramatically turned out that he did not have that disease. But that was all. As time passed, those symptoms appeared. Every time we went to various hospitals, they ultimately said they did not know. Since everyone said they didn't know, I tried many things like alternative medicine." He continued, "After the final test at the time showed a negative result and we were preparing for discharge, the doctor quietly called me over. Although it came out that he did not have that disease, the doctor said, 'It is a type of muscular dystrophy, and the child may die before the age of 15.' It was too shocking, but I felt my wife should not know."

He then revealed, "I decided to keep it secret and hid it. From that point on, it was very difficult. I went every day to check if the child was breathing." He added, "After the child passed his 15th birthday, my wife confessed that she had actually heard from the doctor as well. She said she kept it hidden for our mutual benefit, worried that if I knew, it would interfere with my work. I tried to find out on my own because I feared life would collapse the moment I knew, and I also felt resentment toward the doctor."

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