Plan Your Health

In a meeting largely attended by skilled health professionals, like doctors, midwives, nurses and other health personnel, I never asked the question of who among those present who already have savings, fund, or investing for retirement, health insurance , pretty much a show of hands. But when I asked is there among the audience who already have savings for a healthy, none of the finger, if there is only a concept of health insurance is "when sick".

That's the reality in most of us, not only among lay people, environment of the medical profession, too. We want to be healthy, like longevity, want to be happy and prosperous, but did not care, do not want to do something to mecapainya. While we were saving or had an account for the old days, had a mistress, insurance if sick, but we do not menanbung to stay healthy in old age. The philosophy used is the concept of pain, menuggu sick. When we have such a concept, waiting for pain, imagine the pains the heart, storke pain, cancer and so on .- if you think ill, yes, he will come, you'll be sick. No wonder I can see, the elderly, and even began to retirement age, most of us have started to emerge complaints of old age diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, respiratory disorders, ganggaun joints, eye disorders, ear, memory loss, intellectual, and so on.

In practice I am often dealing with patients, in the relatively young age,-for my age of 60 years can still be considered young, because of longer life expectancy, if our organs are functioning optimally, we can still be considered young, age around that we should still be productive-patients had been afflicted with several diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, stroke, hypertension, pulmonary, and other malignancies. Yet diseases that are often found at this advanced age group, not a disease that can not be anticipated, you can meminimalisirnya, you can prevent it. Most of these diseases associated with lifestyle (behavior), eating patterns. Unfortunately, when young, healthy often we do not care, does not "care", we do not want to save for a healthy, even otherwise save for pain.

There is an interesting story that should be a lesson to us that it must diantispasi healthy, should be planned. must be nurtured while you are still healthy. There was a patient (actually many), a wealthy, had everything, maybe he thought everything could be bought. A businessman, his company is not only one, starting from the parent company to other subsidiaries. This patient seems a "workaholic", working an average of more than 15 hours a day, virtually rarely rested. Besides it is also a heavy cigarette addicts and drinkers who could be a few cups of coffee in a day. Patients with eating problems are also indiscriminate, while you still can, still there, eat it. One time he complained of severe headaches, and taken to the hospital. Arriving at the hospital the patient was already unconscious, and suffered paralysis on the right side of the hands and feet. After being treated while the patient regained consciousness and improved. When I visit patients, he looked at me long enough, and then cried, "I regret that so far has ignored doctor's advice." After receiving treatment long enough, the patient recovered, and he can work again.

After several years, the patient was again experiencing a stroke, stroke test proved to cerebral hemorrhage, of course heavier. Not some time in the hospital care of patients eventually died, died in a relatively young age.

When I ask the patient's wife, how could the father had a stroke, what happens during this? It turned out that patients still continue old habits, like before the first stroke, not long after outside the hospital. It's hard to stop a habit that is ingrained, let alone make new habits, even though that habit to our advantage. Most of us like the phenomenon of frog in cold water vessel that is heated slowly, the frog feels comfortable, do not feel anything, then eventually the frog has become a boiled frog. A person with hypertension whose blood pressure rises little by little will not feel anything, unless it already had a stroke or other complication. Someone who gained weight little by little will not matter, but when the morning he found his weight suddenly increased by 15 kilos, would have panicked.

Expect a healthy body, a healthy old age, some experts describe as we build a house or a city. An interesting city, a beautiful, waste water disposal system runs fine, ventilation and green landscaped gardens, good lighting, convenient transportation and smoothly, we can live in peace, comfortable in them certainly is not a city built haphazardly, but the city well planned, laid out perfectly, maintained, there are rules that are running and adhered to, there is allowed, encouraged and there is prohibited. Body and health we also like that, it needs planning, need rules, attention, maintenance. Healthy, healthy especially in the old days you would not get if you do not care about your health now