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How are you today? Do you feel better or stress or worst that stress goes deeper than the usual?
These past weeks, I honestly don't feel doing anything. I feel too weak and helpless. I know where it is come from and I can't control this from happening. I do have a cough, sneezing, and fever but I must wake up and move forward and never love these all kinds of illnesses I do have.
WHAT MAKES ME BUSY?
Obviously, once you are a single mom, you are needed to be 101% perfect attendance that happening in our life especially for the good of my daughter. As a mother, there is no breaks, no rest and no salary, that's how life is so cruel. But despite that, there is still good news, and agree with it. Every day I am busy with my daughter, with household chores and of course, needed to attend the needs in the sari-sari store that we owned that operates for more than 40 years and the net shop that been operating for 8 years already. I know how to get tired of doing these routine each day no other else but if you enjoy it and along the way you see and meet new people, that excites you.
HOW DO I MANAGE IT?
Imagine the sari-sari store business been operating since I am not born yet. So, it's been part of my living when I come to this world. It became my training each day since when I am young my Mother trained me how to manage each task slowly. And I won't deny the fact that I made mistakes but my Mother kept on reminding me that it is okay to have mistake once but doing it twice, thrice that wouldn't be good. As young as me, getting involved in the world of business even it is just a sari-sari store but I am proud of it. It helps us a lot to live each day. It gives us the food we eat, the things we need, and it gives the costumers convenience. Managing your time from school to store, store to household chores to homework and projects, doing multitasking is very difficult at first and I won't deny that I am feeling sick of doing that every day. But time management helps me a lot and at the young age, I know how to do it, and thanks for giving me the opportunity to experience all of these. Funny but 5 years ago when I and my Mother transferred in the new house, I saw my childhood notebooks and saw those schedule of mine that I made to just let me remind of what should I did every hour and the list of prices I made for the store. I can't imagine I can do it. Have you noticed? In this part, you can never read that I included my playtime schedule but honestly, with that busy schedule of mine in my childhood, I still managed to have my playtime, playtime with my cousins and neighbors. I can watch television of what I like and have my nap time. Until today, I am busier now. Most of the time, I used to be in the store as well as the net shop. We started the net shop in the old house and to tell you, the net shop is a gift for me from my mother. She gave it during my 18th birthday, on the day of the celebration of my debut. I am really happy that day, an advantage since I am taking the degree of Information Technology so I can have time to experiment more with those computers. Funny right, yes I do it as part of my training and be able to deploy myself and give time to know most of the computer hardware and software but I don't do programs, I hate it, sorry. It just miracle that every actual examination day of each programming subject I got, I just passed and program it well. It's truly a big miracle.
HOW DO I MONITOR MY HEALTH?
Honestly, I don't go for a monthly check-up. Yes! I never go for a monthly check-up since childhood days. I just go and meet the doctor when I am feeling not so good already. Too high fever, severe headaches and I am already vomiting and keeps on coming to the comfort room, feeling dehydrated and the feeling that I can't already stand and walk, that's the time I will see a doctor. My family does have a family doctor but we really don't go for a monthly checkup. Some do go for a monthly checkup especially in other countries but here in the Philippines, it is not part of the daily schedule.
I don't really monitor my health. I just have to make sure I do have a good lifestyle. Yes! My Mother is diagnosed with having diabetics way back 2009 after her operation from having a Mayuma (Myoma (Cervical Myoma)), are benign tumors composed partly of muscle tissue. They seldom develop in the cervix, the lower part of the uterus. When they do, they are usually accompanied by myomas in the larger upper part of the uterus. Myomas in this part of the uterus is also called fibroids (source: http://www.msdmanuals.com/home/women-s-health-issues/noncancerous-gynecologic-abnormalities/cervical-myomas.) I am in my secondary schooling that year but it is really difficult for me since I do need to do everything like not a child anymore but to act as an adult already since I need to attend the needs of everything, I need to look full time for myself without my Mother, I need to open the sari-sari store after school, I need to skip some classes to go to the hospitals to bring foods and other needs especially to those who are in-charged to look after my Mother when I am not around. In the early stages of mine, I know how life is so cruel, I do know the feeling of having a rough road life and I understand how life up and down but its made me stronger than the usual kids that living surround me. I am not thinking that I am having problem with my feet, I born with a good form of cerebral palsy (only this year I know about it) I do live for almost 24 years knowing that all I bringing is from polio but last year, after seeing a specialist on my situation, I learned about cerebral palsy cases and knowing that I belong in that case.
Monitoring won't do a lot but doing, applying and deciding for a good lifestyle, makes everything at its best. A temptation for food is always the problem and I know, you all too. Food really deprives me of continuing to a healthy lifestyle. And throughout the years, my weight is like a ferries wheel, some years it goes down and some goes up except during my pregnancy that it really goes up. Last 2015, I decided to make full motivated and my awareness of it after talking to the specialist that gives me the details about my situation, the cerebral palsy case and thanks to the Foundation of Senator Manny Pacquiao and his wife, Jinkie Pacquiao, they gave me an opportunity to strive to it and lose some weight and now still continuing the journey of having a healthy lifestyle. I am one of those cases that given the opportunity to have hours of free using their fitness gym with the free instructor. I lose my weight, my fats and I feel my bones are getting stronger and looking slim for a while. Yes! Just for a while, lol. It's been 6 months already that I never go back to the gym since I do have to spend time more for my family and in the busy business and now, we are all busy for the new business venture.
HOW I MAINTAIN MYSELF TO BE BETTER EACH DAY?
I will credit this to my partner every day, my vitamins. Without it, my body will never fight those different illnesses. Taking vitamins really helped a lot. One time my friend told me that a person should take a vitamin every day since our body is full of minerals when you won't take any vitamins it will never work well. So, I am making a hobby taking vitamins every day and thanks to him that I really never forget to take. It is so difficult to maintain every day since you are busy doing other things but when it comes to health and you are afraid to get sick especially the factors around you like the climate change, gosh I can't take the whole day of lying of my bed doing nothing. Apart from taking vitamins, I am thankful that I can still walk but not that good as walk as the normal person because I walked like dancing but I am still lucky to feel that I can walk, a 20 - 30 minutes walk is an exercise for me to give of those sweats. I forget about of Zumba already since I know I can't maintain it. As I noticed that doing Zumba is good if you maintain it and well-scheduled but I you got an turned on and off Zumba session, good luck to your body, you really gain weights that way. So I prefer walking which is the easiest thing to be done and it really helps you a lot even how busy you are, try to do walking at least few minutes each day and you will see the difference.
Monthly Checkup: A Must or Not?
I don't see wrong if you do a monthly checkup since monitoring your health is much important, right? Health is wealth. When you got sick and your body calls for it, no one to blame except you. If you just take care of yourself, you will never skip from work because of an illness or you are not feeling well or keep on working even you are not really okay. I know a monthly checkup is very important especially to those who got medication but to those who don't have and thinking that monthly checkup is just a waste of time and money, why know drive for a healthier lifestyle? Join me in driving to a healthier lifestyle this 2018. Put this in your New Year's Resolution, maybe it will have a miracle. There's no harm in trying after all. You will never lose anything but you will gain for good.
IMPORTANT NOTES
Its two days before Christmas Day, as a friendly reminder as I am driving for a healthier lifestyle, why not let us start today than making it start in 2018. Teaching yourself to be more in control and knows what to take in or just knows your limit, not letting each temptation kills you, a temptation of foods. Too much is not good at all. You can eat anything this time especially in the Noche Buena with the whole family but not too much. Yes! You are allowed to taste anything except if you got allergy, right? Or you wanna spend your Christmas at the hospitals? Think first before an act. Life is so beautiful to waste and I know we do have our own happiness to spend and dreams to achieve so living happily and a healthier lifestyle can contribute a lot. I am not forcing you to do this since you have your own will and decision but you can have those change in 2018 after all you love your life and you wanna spend time with your family, grow old with your better half, see your children achieve their dreams and spend more with your granddaughters and grandsons. Life is too short to not to take good care of it. This time, can you assure that you are already happy to end your life like this today? Are you ready?
Have a Jolly and Merrier Christmas Everyone!
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