Health.
First of all, I'd like to thank everyone for praying for my grandmother. She had a triple bypass last Saturday and she's just starting to recover from it. She's not completely alright yet though because she apparently had pneumonia before the operation. If she doesn't get better they might have to perform a dialysis. It's odd that I'm only actually starting to understand all of these terms right now when I've been hearing them forever.
I'm not sure how much this whole thing is affecting my family in terms of health awareness, but I'm just starting to get really scared about all of this. Apparently, my grandmother could have avoided the heart attack if she had her regular yearly check-ups. In spite of deep financial resources that some of the people in my mother's side actually have, no one apparently made sure that she had it. Yes, she'd go to the hospital but only if she had major problems. The signs have apparently been there for a while but no one ever really paid much attention to them.
Nobody's better at ignoring aches and pains than me. I mean it. I've always been a sickly kid. I never really felt that my body was fully functional machine. I had asthma as a kid along with allergies to a whole bunch of things. After I outgrew that, I started getting all of these random weird diseases like juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. I think I was absent for six weeks straight for two of my last years in grade school. I also had this recurring ear pain for much of my adolescent years. I knew pain and I learned how to ignore it. I knew that my world couldn't stop every single time I got sick. The arthritis I had as a child came back full force around four years ago. Though I was in pain a lot of the time, I learned to ignore it so that I could go to work. I never once went to the doctor for the year and half that I worked for my old company.
The arthritis usually hits my hip. Usually it stays for a couple of days and then it leaves. It usually kicks in during the colder times of the year. For the past couple of months though, it's been around more often. It started to hurt for long stretches last December. Since the freakishly cold weather kicked in, it hasn't left. If anything, it's gotten worse. It's spreading too. The past couple of days it's hit my shoulder blade and my knee.
Even before Lola got sick, I've made a decision to make an active attempt at getting healthy. This is why I've been walking for the past couple of weeks. The main reason why I didn't just start jogging was because of the pain in my hip. I had to jog for PE 101 last December and it made things very difficult. With the pain getting worse, I'm not sure how jogging would affect it.
I was supposed to go jogging a while ago since a whole bunch of the kids in school have started to jog. I woke up a bit too late for it but even if I did wake up earlier, I highly doubt that I could've jogged properly because it was painful.
I really need to go back to the doctor. I know I have to be a little bit more active and I can't really do that with this recurring pain in my joints. I'm getting older and I need to start getting healthy before it's too late. The older you get, the harder it gets to start new habits.
My grandmother lived a very healthy lifestyle. She was reasonably active and she ate always ate right. Even with all of that, she still suffered a heart attack. My father's side of the family has a history of heart disease. I need to find a way to stop it because I'm genetically more predisposed to it than she is.
I'm not sure how much this whole thing is affecting my family in terms of health awareness, but I'm just starting to get really scared about all of this. Apparently, my grandmother could have avoided the heart attack if she had her regular yearly check-ups. In spite of deep financial resources that some of the people in my mother's side actually have, no one apparently made sure that she had it. Yes, she'd go to the hospital but only if she had major problems. The signs have apparently been there for a while but no one ever really paid much attention to them.
Nobody's better at ignoring aches and pains than me. I mean it. I've always been a sickly kid. I never really felt that my body was fully functional machine. I had asthma as a kid along with allergies to a whole bunch of things. After I outgrew that, I started getting all of these random weird diseases like juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. I think I was absent for six weeks straight for two of my last years in grade school. I also had this recurring ear pain for much of my adolescent years. I knew pain and I learned how to ignore it. I knew that my world couldn't stop every single time I got sick. The arthritis I had as a child came back full force around four years ago. Though I was in pain a lot of the time, I learned to ignore it so that I could go to work. I never once went to the doctor for the year and half that I worked for my old company.
The arthritis usually hits my hip. Usually it stays for a couple of days and then it leaves. It usually kicks in during the colder times of the year. For the past couple of months though, it's been around more often. It started to hurt for long stretches last December. Since the freakishly cold weather kicked in, it hasn't left. If anything, it's gotten worse. It's spreading too. The past couple of days it's hit my shoulder blade and my knee.
Even before Lola got sick, I've made a decision to make an active attempt at getting healthy. This is why I've been walking for the past couple of weeks. The main reason why I didn't just start jogging was because of the pain in my hip. I had to jog for PE 101 last December and it made things very difficult. With the pain getting worse, I'm not sure how jogging would affect it.
I was supposed to go jogging a while ago since a whole bunch of the kids in school have started to jog. I woke up a bit too late for it but even if I did wake up earlier, I highly doubt that I could've jogged properly because it was painful.
I really need to go back to the doctor. I know I have to be a little bit more active and I can't really do that with this recurring pain in my joints. I'm getting older and I need to start getting healthy before it's too late. The older you get, the harder it gets to start new habits.
My grandmother lived a very healthy lifestyle. She was reasonably active and she ate always ate right. Even with all of that, she still suffered a heart attack. My father's side of the family has a history of heart disease. I need to find a way to stop it because I'm genetically more predisposed to it than she is.