Happily, I was recently introduced to Shokunin, which immediately became my favourite; inventive, delicious, reasonably priced and whimsically idiosyncratic. It is in a nondescript block of the Mission neighbourhood.
Relapsing polychondritis is a rare disease that causes inflammation of cartilage throughout the body, especially in the ears, nose, eyes and throat.Symptoms of this disease come and go. The severity of symptoms, and how often they appear, varies quite a bit from person to person.n relapsing polychondritis, cartilage becomes inflamed, causing redness, swelling, irritation, discomfort and pain in the affected areas. The inflammation of this disease may cause your windpipe, or trachea, to narrow, resulting in hoarseness, shortness of breath and wheezing.
In many rheumatic diseases, inflammation causes damage to parts of the body, such as what happens to the joints in rheumatoid arthritis. In many cases, inflammation results from autoimmunity, a malfunction of the immune system in which a person's own tissues or organs are mistakenly attacked by the body's immune system.