BEWARE!
A major health problem can turn your world upside down.
Stroke, heart-attack, cancer and other medical nightmares we used to hear only happen to OLD people are now happening and can happen to anyone at any time in their life. It can happen to YOU. It happened to ME.
If you are always stressed, eats, drinks and smokes too much, or if you keep forgetting you are no longer in your twenties and constantly indulges in EXCESSES, you might be in for a surprise any time soon.
If one day you decided to look after yourself and planned to shape-up and even actually went to your doctor for a check-up BUT after a few days or weeks totally forgot about it thinking you're okay after a few month's prescription, YOU ARE NOT OKAY!
Most health problems in our generation are associated with our lifestyle- the food we eat, the hours we keep and the environment we have ensconced ourselves in. And I know now what my doctors meant when they said they are AVOIDABLE and PREVENTABLE or the very least, if the health issue is well imprinted on your DNA, its manifestation DELAYED.
Before my stroke, I only go to the hospital for operations, you know, those ending in -my -- appendectomy, myomectomy and hysterectomy. I didn't monitor my blood pressure or my sugar level though I was told I should as they spiked during my various hospitalizations. My reason is simple, in retrospect STUPID - I was not feeling any pain anywhere.
I am an example of those who were "good patients" for a few days even months then totally forgets or disregards medications all together thinking doing one, or two, good thing like managing my weight is enough... NOT!
Now, I take my medications religiously, shows-up to my check-up punctually WHILE STILL eating healthy. You cannot do one without the other when your doctor tells you, you are at risk. And after two quarterly check-ups and laboratory tests, I am now an A patient. From two stroke attacks more than a year ago with vital health stats to the roof, they are now at NORMAL.
IT CAN BE DONE. Why did I wait until I had a stroke to understand my situation? I guess that's NORMAL. We tend to wait until something HURTS us before we are moved to ACT.
Know how you are NOW! How much do you really weigh NOW? Not when you were in high school or ten years ago, NOW! What is your regular blood pressure, sugar level, cholesterol, triglycerides, uric acid etc. Do you even know your blood type? How are your eyes? Your ovaries? Your breasts? Your prostate?
What are your health risks? Know your health risks now so they don't take you by surprise.
BEWARE IF YOU CARE FOR YOURSELF and YOUR LOVED ONES.
