How lucky you are to be healthy

How lucky you are to be healthy:

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How lucky you are to be healthy.

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If you have a functioning body and mind, count yourself luckier than billions of people.

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It may not feel like that, but it’s true.

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Health is the most important aspect of your life.

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When you’re healthy, you take it for granted.

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When you’re sick, it’s all you want to change.

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As Confucious said ‘a healthy man wants a thousand things, a sick man only wants one.’

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Be grateful you're lucky enough to be healthy.

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What someone wouldn’t give for a healthy organ.

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Or some blood.

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Or a stable mind.

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These are things we take for granted every day.

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Go walk into a hospital and see what people are dealing with.

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Was reminded of that today.

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Had a colonoscopy done for some gut problems.

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The prep was horrible.

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For the procedure, couldn’t have gone faster.

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But sitting there, I kept seeing all these old people around.

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Ones in their 70s and 80s.

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Busy going to appointments.

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Just to keep themselves going one more day.

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I keep thinking about their age.

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They’ve lived their life.

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I hopefully have a lot of mine left.

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It’s only when you deal with a health problem do you realize how lucky you are.

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Today was a wake up call.

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My habits have been more unhealthy than I thought.

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Need to change that.

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If you let yourself go, these problems can compound.

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As Robin Sharma said ‘the person who does not make time for exercise must eventually make time for illness.’

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Keep yourself fit.

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That being said, anything can happen.

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You can do everything right and one day, everything changes.

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My brother told me about a patient he diagnosed recently.

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Diagnosed a patient with brain cancer metastasis based on symptoms from her foot.

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One day everything was normal.

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The next it was not.

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Been thinking about the days my parents start to get sick.

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How lucky I am to have both of them healthy and in my life.

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That’s the thing about health, it’s not just you.

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It’s those closest to you.

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Any day, any of their lives can change.

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When that happens, your life changes.

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So be grateful while you’re here.

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Today.

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Right now.

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Because we don’t know what the future holds.

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For us.

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Our family.

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Our friends.

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One day we’re healthy.

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The next day we’re not.

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Never forget how lucky you are to be healthy.

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