The importance of regular checkups cannot be overemphasized.

Hello, everyone.

Welcome to my blog and another wonderful edition of the Hive Learner's featured post. They say health is wealth but many people fail to understand this saying until it is too late, many people are so busy trying to make ends meet and forget how much attention their health needs and in most cases come to realise the cost of their actions when it is already too late or when the price to pay has gone beyond what they would have paid if only the problem was spotted earlier. Our body needs care; if we fail to give it the care it needs, it will fail us at some point.

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Our body needs maintenance; our body wears out too, which makes giving it the maintenance that it needs very important, and one way to go about giving our body the maintenance it needs is by going for checkups regularly and ensuring we follow the doctor's instructions after the checkup. Many people go for checkups but do not follow the doctor's instructions. We need to know that giving our health the maintenance it needs does not end at going for checkups but also includes following the instructions given.

Our body too is like a machine or a car which you need to take to the mechanic workshop every once in a while for servicing and checking if everything is working perfectly and if there is a problem will be spotted on time before it goes beyond repair or cost us more to get back to standard. Trust me, there are many people who do not fail to take their car to a mechanic shop at least once a month for servicing and maintenance but never once visit the hospital for their own health checkup, and this is bad; you should place your life and health above every other thing, but we now live in a world where we place properties and material things over our own life and health.

I have heard and seen for myself what going for regular checkups can do and how it can stop an illness from escalating or reaching a point where there is no going back. The only way to spot a health problem on time is by going for checkups regularly and not waiting until you feel sick or ill before you go for a checkup. I have shared a story once here where a neighbor who felt she was fine just decided to go for a check-up but came back with sad news about having a lump under her breast, but since it was spotted on time, they were able to contain the situation, and it did not have to escalate.

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I never really liked the idea of going for checkups; I just did not like visiting the hospital unless forced, but my parents made it a must to visit the hospital every month back home, and also before I left for school, I had to go for a checkup and then get treated so I wouldn't break down while in school. The truth is, with how important checkups are, I don't really do them on my own unless I'm back home, and I have not gone back home for the past 9 months, so the last time I went for a medical checkup without falling sick or feeling sick was 9 months ago.