Realization101: Don't Ignore Your Aching Frame

April 13, 2021

After reading @bmjc98 and @eommaZel articles regarding health matters, they seemed like a wake-up call to me. Due to my eagerness to achieve my goals and earn more BCH, I'm pushing myself to limit and compromising my health which impedes my work. I am sometimes ignoring the pains and unwell feelings as I just want to continue and finish things that are needed to be done. I'm a type of person that if I want to finish something or I like what I am doing, I will continue it despite discomforts until I'm done.

My previous jobs proved to me that I have a low-stress tolerance and can not stand staying up late at night. I have graveyard shifts in my previous jobs and what I've noticed after consecutive sleepless nights from my caregiving job, was a cracking and pinning feeling of pain at the back of my head. But I never treat myself with any medicine as I don't like drinking them and I don't want my body to just rely on medicines.

I never had eyeglasses before even when I was working in a Business Processing Outsourcing company facing a computer from 5 in the morning to 2 in the afternoon. When I worked as a teller, I was also facing a computer the whole day but never tried using eyeglasses. Until I worked here abroad. My eyes became more sensitive to light, my vission became blurry, and my eyes became hurting once they are exposed to radiation like using phone and computer.

I always eat healthy foods but exercising is not my forte. Maybe because I don't have enough time to do that since my holidays were spent tucking myself on the bed and recuperating for the sleepless nights.

Then I did blogging here on readcash. Almost most of the time, my eyes are fixed on my phone screen, tapping, writing, surfing, blogging, straining my eyes, and my arms. It was I guess three months from working here on reas ash when I've experienced more eye problems. One time when I was inside the car writing an article for readcash, my eyes suddenly ache so bad and I felt nausea that I even wanted to vomit.

I thought it was about my eyeglasses and I thought I need to change them. I did changed my glasses but the pain did not go away. I can not use my phone for more than 10 minutes and those were the times that I wasn't that active here on readcash as I felt dizzy and my eyes were hurting once I look at my phone. I tried to keep my distance from my phone and not to be so active here on readcash. Then at night before sleeping, I always massage my glabella and areas around my eyes and put on eye drops two to three times a day. It did work, and I was happy that finally, I can use my phone for a long period already.

Then one day my phone fell causing a flickering effect on the screen. I wasn't able to bring my phone to a repair shop immediately since I was busy at work and the repair shops were quite far from our place, and the only available day to go there was Sunday. I was able to change my phone's LCD but what they have replaced made my eye problem worst. The LCD wasn't matched with my phone's original LCD and it was too bright that made my eyes more hurting. But despite that, I continued writing articles because I don't want to end the day without posting one.

Because it was the repair shop's fault, I requested them to change the LCD and fortunately, they accepted it with no fee. But then I need to wait another week because they still need to order LCD for my phone. So I have no choice but to use my phone with a bright LCD for blogging. My eyes started to feel hurt again just like before and I've noticed darker eye circles. So I just continued putting on eye drops and did eye massage until I get better.

My phone was fixed and my eyes felt better but the dark eye circles did not fade and remained even until now. Maybe because I'm always sleeping late at night and always facing my phone from time to time for blogging and trading.

Then six months ago when I felt a burning sensation on my left arm. I thought it was due to over fatigue at work. I did accupuncture, ventosa, massage, but they did not work. The pain was still there and lasted for months, and believe me or not, it lasted up to date. I went to the doctor as it is getting worse, but even after drinking medicines prescribed by my doctor, it's useless as the pain is still there.

I did massage every night and applied muscle pain reliever. Sometimes the pain goes away but it still comes back and even affected my right arm. Then I found out the root of my pain. It is due to tapping my phone for a long period, arms are always bent causing strains to my muscles and veins from continuous tapping.

So everywhere I go, I always massage and stretch my arms. And at work, I always take a break and massage my arms. Medicines are useless and I guess what I need is a physical therapist, not just a doctor and pain relievers.

Eyes and arms are the most significant parts of our body needed for a freelancing job. I am even thinking, this is just a side job to me, how much more if I will make this as a full-time job?

I know it's my fault as well, as I kept on ignoring my aching frame. And so my next goal is not about accumulating more cryptos or whatsoever, it is about my health.

Money is important but what matters the most is our health. As what @eommaZel has said, it isn't too late for me to fix what is needed to be fixed and put things into account. We can make goals anytime, but how we'll be able to achieve those goals if our health is at stake?

Everything can be done but in moderation. So from now on, I will manage my time and online work wisely and put my health into consideration. Just like @bmjc98, I need to change my routine and do what is right. I don't want to wait for the time that I will regret everything.

It's time to change and forget about the bot. I'll sleep earlier, give more time to relax my hands, arms, and eyes. And most especially, I'll connect more to my real world, not to my digital world.

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