Last month when the buzz of happy new year filled the air, I was so excited to get locked in that I didn’t even have a break, but that shouldn’t be an issue, because it’s not the first time, but then I had a feeling.
A sudden migraine that graduated into a headache that would suddenly make my eyes close and ached so badly that I had to take a break off work and made the dreadest decision to visit the hospital for a check-up.
I felt like it was the usual malaria because I hardly ever fall ill, but I am so careful that I make sure mosquitoes have no way near my room and I rarely sleep out too. I observed myself for two more days, importantly avoided self-medication, and when it was no different, I visited the hospital. The last time I visited any was in 2023 and I knew it was long overdue.
It should be the normal fatigue or malaria and just some injections and few drugs should do the work, I thought, but I got the shocker of my life at the hospital.
First, the doctor observed me and asked some questions. After going through some important tests, the results came out, and I was going to be admitted for a comprehensive treatment.
“What happened to me?”, I asked the doctor, and he said, I had a low blood pressure, and my immune system was too weak and that if I hadn’t visited at the time, it could’ve been fatal, and I might have needed to stay at the hospital longer than a week.
I’ve suffered low blood pressure before, and I know the consequences of not giving it the attention it needs, and I really wasn’t ready to go through it over again. I have also battled a weak immune system for about a year before I fully recovered, and trust me, I wasn’t ready for any more of those troubles.
“I was agile”, I said. The only reason I visited the hospital was because of the headache that refused to go away, and that shouldn’t have needed that I slept at the hospital.
At that point, I had no choice but to succumb to whatever treatment that would be administered so that I would resume my life.
Sometimes, the things we ignore gets to hunt us to a level that we will be shocked and may have to spend more than the money and time that we thought we didn’t have for routine check-up.
I do not neglect my health, however, visiting the hospital for check-ups is one thing I want to learn to include in my life right now so that the hidden ailments just like the low blood pressure and the weak immune system that would’ve paved way for other ailments to badly deal with me will be discovered on time and promptly treated.
Images are mine.