Health is wealth. Every now and then, especially on social media, health influencers and personals advise and appeal to people to treat their bodies better and to mount their guards in order that illnesses do not overtake them.
I know that in this part of the world, particularly the African society and especially in Nigeria, a whole lot of us neglect visiting the hospital. It's so rare. It takes very severe health problems before people find their ways to see the doctor, and even before that, we first go to a pharmacy. It's funny how we already have a supposed knowledge of what is wrong with us even without conducting tests or seeing a physician.
A friend of mine fell ill one time, and as is common in this society, he was treating for malaria. He had gone to a pharmacy to request anti-malarial drugs, which he was given. But even after taking up the medication. He did not get better. He went to a different pharmacy after a while and still got anti-malarial drugs, yet nothing changed. When his health grew even worse, he went to see a doctor who made him run tests, and it was found that he was suffering from something entirely different, and the malaria drugs were inflamming the condition. It was terrible. He had to be admitted and given IV drips to cleanse his system.
Ever since them, I've been very conscious(not like I wasn't prior, but I just got extra conscious due to how severe and frightening my friend's case was).
And bearing in mind that both serious and not very critical illness begins with the same symptoms, I've been more careful.
In the last couple of years, I've watched as many people, especially the young, have flipped over and became critically ill, with some even losing their lives. For a number of them, I wouldn't say that they lived recklessly and paid no attention to their health cause a lot of them ate healthy and exercised and didn't live the sort of life or did things that could be traced back to them. It just happened. But maybe if they had been doing routine checks, they would have found it all earlier. Maybe.
My major aim at this point concerning my health is to just go for checkups every once in a while so that i can know how mu body is faring especially with all the stress i am putting it through, as well as to detect and prevent/treat diseases early enough and to build amd maintain a healthy lifestyle. Health... good health is utmost.
It was sometime last year that I ran some checks to ascertain the basic health state of my body. Since then, I haven't gone again. I have it the back of my mind to do so. The plan is to get checked at least once every year. It will be like a full checkup and not merely the basic ones. So, sometime in the year, I will.
I hope that this was interesting to read. Thanks for coming around.
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