Health Check: How are you?

Last Saturday, my throat feels itchy and my head hurts. Like what I always do whenever I'm feeling something on my throat, I prepared a lukewarm calamansi juice. It always works with me but this time it didn't.

I don't like drinking medicine so I just let my headache and did water therapy instead. I rested that night thinking that it'll all be gone on the next day but I thought wrong.

I woke up last Sunday having chills and fever. I'm also having dry cough, body pains and a headache. And so I eat, drink medicine and rest, and on the afternoon, the fever is gone.

But I woke up in the middle of the night having an unbearable headache and with a high temperature. That kept me awake all night. The next day, on the morning, I don't have fever anymore but it came back again. And it's gone again, and it'll came back again. In short, it's on and off.

I had a hard time sleeping last night but the good thing is that the fever didn't came back anymore.

I'm also aware that all those that I am feeling are mild symptoms for Covid19 but it can be manageable at home. So, just to make sure, I also isolated myself and distant myself with the people at home, specially to the kids since I don't want to risk their health.

I am confident though that this is just a normal fever I got from the changing weather, and I also have this habit of not using an umbrella if there's only a slight rain. This is what I got from feeling so invincible. LOL.

Right now, I'm already feeling a lot way better. Just slight headache, dry cough and nothing else. I'm just resting at home, regaining my energy, and I'll be back on track by tomorrow. 3 days is already enough rest for me.

Funny thing here is that it feels like "school days are coming sickness" because this is so consistent. This always happen to me yearly. Every time another school year will begin, I always get sick. LOL.

Anyway, I would like to take this opportunity to ask this one question; how are you?

Let's have a health check. How's your physical, mental, spiritual, and emotional health?

Are you physically tired? Give yourself a break, take a rest.

How's your mental health? Which level do you belong? In crisis, struggling, surviving, thriving or excelling?

How about your spiritual health? Do you have your spiritual family? How's your faith? When was the last time you pray?

And your emotional health? How are you coping up with everything that is happening to you right now?

Obviously, my physical health is not in a good shape right now and that's a reminder for all of us to take it easy on our body. We may have a lot of work to do but let's give it a rest, having enough sleep is also important in our physical health. I'm also guilty with not having regular exercise because I'm too lazy to do so. Another thing is to eat healthy foods. Eat vegetables even if you don't want to.

Enough sleep, regular exercise and a balanced diet, such a basic thing to do which we often forget and disregard. Let us take care of our health folks!

On the five zones of mental health continuum, where are you right now? In crisis and struggling is at high risk. Surviving is also at risk but still, it means that you are trying and fighting. But even though it is impossible, I do hope that we are all at the thriving or excelling level. But if not, let's continue to fight, to move forward, until we reach that certain point. We got this. Otherwise, you can always seek help from all the people around you.

As for spiritual health, this is the part which I can say that I am healthy. But how about you? I know all of us are not religious in here but never let your connection and communication with God got lost. Because that's the time when you'll also feel lost. Always pray, always call upon Him, seek Him, seek for His help. Praise and thank Him both in good times and in bad times. Strengthen your faith in Him.

Lastly, our emotional health. Are you stressed? Are you having a hard time handling your emotion? Is your judgement always being clouded with emotions? I do hope that you're managing well with it. May we all have our own peace of mind and whatever that is bothering us, tell it to the Lord in prayer.

How are you? Are you okay?

If not, as to what the famous Kdrama says, "it's okay not to be okay" but I hope that all of you are doing fine right now.

Taka care y'all!

No. 115, Published: 03, August 2021