Saturday, August 30, 2014

Have fears about health, don't procrastinate!

I have lost some friends recently, and I really don't know whole story behind their loss. I know they died young and they were in their late 50s or early 60s. I could see some risk factors but I didn't know all the risk factors. To be fair you could look at me and I'm sure you could guess that I have risk factors. and you be right. You may read about it or hear about my death Someday. And you might be thinking "See"! I will give you that one. I think it's important to consider:
You know it's real important for us to see where we are at physically. Have you ever wondered where ou are at physically. Did you think that there was something wrong? Have you ever been afraid to check it out?  Have you had the thought that if you checked it out you might find out your fears are realized? In someway all of us have been there. We may read some how to articles and  look at some lifestyle changes we heard about, but we just don't go to the doctor to check it out. Our fears may really be a problem here. From what I read this is especially true man but we're not exclusive girls have the same thoughts. 
We really need to really get over this, I cannot stress how important this is for us to actually put in the action going to see a doctor. It is more than a game changer, it is life saving. One of the problems that we have in common anytime is sudden death. Fatalism doesn't do any good here. When we become adults we have to start making a habit of, is having a yearly checkup. We are no longer kids where her parents make the appointment. And we were in our 20s we may not even be thinking about our yearly check up. We move into our 30s and maybe we have a family, and we start looking into life insurance. But this is the time to really start finding out about your family health. It is good to know if your family has I problems, hearing problems, heart problems, and issues with cancer. Are there people in your family with diabetes, problems with your teeth, or maybe some other not so common problems but there's people in your family who have them. You may or may not have any problems with these things. But it is time for you check with your doctor and let him know about your family history. I swear that I have most of the things that my family has as wrong, why me? By your 40s you should be aware of how healthy are you. Do you need to get checked out for different types of cancer. There are some things that happen Inside our bodies that can be detected with lab tests,  some kind of x-ray or examination. 
Buy your 40s you should be aware if your risk for heart disease, obesity, cancer and diabetes. You might not be but only having a consistent relationship with your doctor can you really know. When we get into the 50s we start paying the piper, and problems start showing up. Again you may be  perfect health but having your health monitored  by a doctor is a strength. When you get into your 60s there is probably something that you have to be aware but you might be healthy or you already having problems. For about 15 years you may be dealing with those fears and I talked about at the beginning of this article. You are on bowered time and I cannot stress strongly enough how important it is to get a check up with your doctor. This is a time not to put it off and procrastinate, this is the time to act and to do so quickly. 
We are living in a time where seeing our doctor healthy or not can give us years on our life. There are a lot of people who are sick and not healthy but they're alive because they go see their doctor. 
I know that people go to their doctor, and do the right things and they lose the battle against heart disease, cancer, and diabetes. But I know many people who have problems and they don't go see their doctor. The medicines that could help them, the advice that could help them with lifestyle changes that really matter, The medical operations that could save her life won't do them any good. Why, because they never checked it out and I just lived in fear and it passed away. They never took the prescription that would help them with their blood pressure, or the medicine that they needed to control their diabetes, or the many successful Interventions with cancer they could put the disease in remission. Check with people who go to your senior center in your community, or talk to people in your family who are older and they have problems but they're taking medicines, following what the doctors are telling them, their still alive. Sometimes only think about are the people who had a problem and dying but we don't consider the bigger number of people who are being helped through medical care. 
Most the time with my blog I talk about lifestyle changes that help us. But there really is the other part of it that we live longer because there is better medicine. And we have to be aware of that. Aging can be scary as hell, and filled with uncertainty, and we may have questions that keep us up at night. And for me walking with the fat man is all about finding the right support to give me the best advantage. But not taking advantage of the resources that could be available to us in particular I going and having a doctor check out our questions in our problems is just plain foolish and we can't do it. Keep walking

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