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The popular saying that says, “health is wealth.” Should not be misconstrued for ordinary saying as the power in good and sound health cannot be compared to anything else. Come to think of it, if one's health is not sound, to make wealth would be kind of difficult. This is because, there would not be enough energy and sound mind to do and to create wealth respectively. So, for this reason, good and sound health are the major requirements to make wealth.
Like I said in the above paragraph, making wealth really needs sound health and to now have sound health, one thing is very important. That thing that is very important to do in living in sound health just to make wealth is “ Health management.”
For us to live and stay healthy in life, one thing that we must prioritize is the management of our health, though, there's various challenges that may wage war against the management of our health, such thing which include money, time and so on, may play a crucial role in not making us to maintain our health, but notwithstanding, we must not let's these stated factors stop us from managing and maintaining our health.
So, when talking about health management, one thing that is very important in managing our health is to always go for regular checkups. Remember there's a popular saying that says, “ prevention is better than cure.” Indeed this popular saying is correct and this is because, if it fails to prevent disease and infection than may lead to illnesses, it might be difficult to cure when they have outgrown our immune system.
Though, I'm not a fan of regular checkups, but recently, my younger brother had an issue with his stomach. Josh, my younger brother used to have this complaint about his aching stomach almost all the time, and with these persistent pains, we, instead of going for checkups refuse to and resulted to taking self medication, but lo and behold, instead of the pain getting reduced, it began to pain him the more.
So, it's as a result of this that we took him to the hospital and on getting to the hospital, series of test were carried out him and after the test results came out, we were told he was on level 3 of the ulcer ailment, when I heard what the doctor said, I was afraid and this was because he said, if this had gone to level 4, there wouldn't be any remedy again. Thank God we went there as and when due, though we spent a whole lot of money on the tests, drugs and treatments, but everything was brought under control and I was also able to learn great lessons on the importance of regular checkups which by no means would always prevent us from going to the level of having incurable illness or diseases.
Though, other things were also discovered during the process of the tests carried out on him, but notwithstanding, we were able to know what and what not to do.
The other illness discover as a result of the test even made me ask the doctor as to why it's always like whenever a test is being carried out, there are other things that were always detected from the body system.
When the doctor had this, he smiled and went on to sensitize me on the issue. He said the human body is like a system or machine that has viruses, he said whenever we use an antivirus on the machine or system, it goes on to detect more than what needs to be detected.
He now said that, had it been that, people have been coming for regular checkups, those things would have been detected and treated accordingly, but because of our nonchalant attitude to taking regular checkups those things still remain in our body.
The doctor even said, some didn't know they have one or two ailments in their body just because they refuse to check up on their health status. And that because of their refusal to check up on their health status, they have been sent to their early graves.
It's when he had said all of these things that I personally now know the importance of regular checkups, not on that, I even came up with a belief that, not all death are spiritual, some are because of lack of regular checkups and since then, I have improved on checking my health status from time to time. Regular checking is good and should be prioritized by everyone.
This is my entry to the sciFi weekly prompt.
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