I'm a 51-year-old man and I’m psychologically allergic to health checks
Mr Imran Johri, a father of three children, knows how important regular health screenings are. He reflects on why he continues to resist getting the check-ups....There were tears – mostly my wife's. After all, one of her deepest fears – that I would leave this world first – was suddenly very real.
More checks later revealed that my sputtering artery was the result of a combination of caffeine abuse, work stress and poor sleep habits. I am getting it sorted with follow-up checks, a revised diet plan and a crackdown on my coffee intake. CNA
Above is from an article in CNA emphasing how important a health check is and how happy one can be for doing the health check and discovered an irregularity. It would be another case of, wow, so lucky to do the checks or else, like striking lottery. Without the health check, the irregularity would not be detected. So, for those who would want to find out irregularities in their bodies in the early stages, some can be quite serious, it is better to go for health checks. This is the message of the article.
Imran is glad that he could live longer with the early detection and the preventive measures he is taking to take care of his condition. This is the part that I don't agree with. How long one lives is not directly related to one's health. Many irregularities and conditions are not death threatening and would not determine how long one could live. A health check could reveal whatever irregularities there are in the body. And most people have irregularities, big or small, life threatening or not. For those who want their bodies to be perfect, regular health checks are important to detect and treat any irregularities in the early stages. Some may make do with the little irregularities as they did not affect the quality of their lives.
In my own philosophy of life, how long one lives is fated, in a way predestined. Have or do not have irregularities or serious impairments in the body is not a factor that decides how long one would live, but would determine how well one can live while alive.
For those who are in doubt, fear of having irregularities in their bodies, they should go for check ups for peace of mind. This is a lifestyle choice.
8 comments:
Good morning Mr RB and All,
Right you are! Once check suspected ailment and then recommendations for many many others if it turned out negative.
Don't know leh? Have commissions in referrals?
Ops Also had special extra surgeon's fees!
Also aiya Man proposes Heavens disposed!
Walking or driving shiok shiok suddenly fall into Sinkholes.
See Matland that poor fellow don't know where it leads to!
This is the results of keep digging and digging lah!
One fine day whole island sinks!
BTOs for another few millions?
No eyes see!
Contractors digging the sewage pipes sure kena.
I want to relate my own experience with health checks, actually just the normal blood and urine tests done every year, or if irregularities occur, every six months.
Since my forties, such tests often came out with blood in urine, on and off, which resulted in an endoscopy done to find out if I had cancer in my prostate. The result was just a benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), an enlarge prostate that affects most elderly person.
In another later health check, I was diagnosed with elevated prostate specific antigen (PSA), meaning further rise could indicate cancer, with subsequent checks resulting in ups and downs and eventually classified as stable and not needing further monitoring.
The most serious consequences of all these diagnosis and checks were the mental torture. Some people say that if you do not die of the sickness, you die of the worry and fear.
In between those issues, there were other issue pertaining to urinary tract infections, borderline traces of protein in urine that went up and down, suspicion of pre-diabetic symptoms, having facial contact dermatitis now under control, all of which also resulted in worrying trends.
I am now 80 years old, living day to day, and taking those extra days as a bonus. Throughout my life, I have only been hospitalized for two days after a fall in the bathroom that resulted in having to be stitched up. I believe in fate and everything is in God's hands.
Everyone above 50 going for checkups would find plenty of spots in their body. And no doctor would tell you they are benign as every spot can become cancerous. To be safe, they will recommend more checks and even cut out the spots.
Put yourself in the shoes of the doctor. When there are spots discovered, no doctor would dare to say no need to do anything. Every spot can turn bad. A doctor would put himself at risk to say no need to cut or treat should a spot turns bad later. Our body is a living tissue and can misbehave anytime or behave well for your whole life.
Doctors and Insurance companies have it all their way. Who pays is not important.
It is misleading to tell people they can live longer because they went for health checks. It is creating fear for those that don't have the money to go for health checks, that they cannot live longer if no checks.
For those with the money, no issues. I have known of people that are so happy to find some dead tissues and spent tens of thousands to get it cut, because they detected it early and they are saved.
It is so good to have the money to buy peace of mind.
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