I Thought It Would Go Away… Until It Didn’t

Life is indeed about management. Sometimes, we tend to overlook certain health symptoms, hoping that they will correct themselves naturally, but that's not usually the case most of the time. I have learned and relearned to manage my symptoms and take care of myself. I have learned through my unpleasant experience over the past two weeks to manage my issues well and even do well to prevent them before they happen for some that I can actually prevent so I can stand a chance of living healthy.

I have been passing through terrible pains on my neck and to my shoulders, down through my elbow, more on one side of my whole body. The kind of pain that made it hard for me to stand up from my bed without an assistant. It started like a joke until the pain graduated to something that makes me cry like a baby. The only way I can explain this pain is the kind of labor pain pregnant moms pass through when they are about to give birth. That same contraction experience pregnant moms do experience prior to delivery is exactly how I feel about this pain.

At first, I thought it was one unserious thing that would come and pass, but as days passed by, it kept tormenting me badly until I couldn't help myself. All effort from my husband, who isn't in town, to ensure that I visit the hospital proved abortive. My friends and family also advised me, but I just didn't want to go to the hospital. I'd rather call my uncle, who is a medical doctor, to prescribe drugs for him, and that was what I was taking at home, hoping to be fine, but I wasn't recovering well. This is really unlike me; I can't even explain why I was dodging the hospital visit, but whatever, I have learned my lesson.

You know, when a simple case should take #100 to be cured, with little pain and discomfort, that same case will multiply if left unattended, including the money you will spend and the discomfort. That was what happened to me, but again, I have learned well. I finally visited the hospital yesterday. On getting to the record department, the attendants saw the kind of pain I was enduring and quickly instructed that I move down to the emergency unit. That was where I was attended to immediately. They ran lots of tests for me and treated me very well with many painful injections (something I was running away from…lol), but I got better, very much better, and I felt so relieved.

Today, I went back for a follow-up, just finished some minutes ago, and was asked to visit again next week.I have been thinking about what would have befallen me if I didn't make this important move yesterday.

Sometimes, all we need is simply to accept the reality and do the needful. Oftentimes we choose not to accept a particular problem and keep overlooking it for any reason at all...but then, it doesn't mean that the problem will go away because we choose not to accept it…it will still be there, possibly birthing other problems and discomfort.

Lessons are being learned daily, but only if we implement them as we learn will life be easier for us to navigate.

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