'Health is wealth' is a popular saying we all hear almost every day; however, the reality is that many don't prioritise their health and then take it for granted when they ought to treat it with the highest level of seriousness. The truth is that many are guilty of this, and that includes me because there have been lots of ways I have taken my health lightly, and on some occasions it comes back to cost me dearly. We don't need to wait to find ourselves at such a point before we do the needful when it comes to our health, and that's why I'm writing this, by sharing my experience and also giving advice on better ways to take care of our health.
The truth is that many of us don't know the importance of good health, and that's why we often take it for granted, and the popular saying that says, "You don't know the value of a thing until you lose it," is very much present in how people treat their body, health and overall wellbeing. And that's why someone can be in good health for years and just keep living their lives, and when their body begins to give them signs, they'll ignore it and keep living their lives, but then the body systems can't contain it again and break down. You'll see such a person in severe pain and would start running around to find a solution; that act is what people call "medicine after death".
And so we shouldn't wait to be in a state of death or liken situations before we do the right thing. Take, for instance, in order to stay in good health, we must eat healthy, eat on time, and indulge in regular exercise so as to keep our joints agile and flexible.
Talking about ways I've been coming short of taking care of my health, I'll say, for example, I've been having issues with my ear for about three months now, and based on the fact that I've owned the same issues earlier in the year and went to the hospital only for them to charge me about fifty thousand for a treatment procedure that didn't last up to five minutes, and yet after two weeks the same reoccurred, and I had to pay the same amount again. These made me resolve within me not to go to the hospital concerning the same issue again, because I felt they'd only take my money and not do what would make the problem go completely, so I moved to using local medication, which although help suppress the pain, hasn't cured it in about two months since I've been using it.
I know what I need to do is to still go to the hospital for a further checkup so they can decipher what the issue is and prescribe the right thing that'll sort it out. However, my concern about money has been an unhealthy habit, and this is something many of us do that isn't right. Yes, I know we are all struggling, but we don't joke with our health because, God forbid, you that refuse to spend one thousand to treat an illness when it's small would be forced to spend tens of thousands on the same thing if it goes out of control and is unbearable for you. So in a nutshell, this advice isn't for only me but for everyone who might be doing the same.
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