Health is Wealth

Yes, health is wealth. A phrase that means a lot to me. It is important to be healthy because if you're healthy, you're wealthy... or if you're healthy, you can be wealthy. You can interpret in any way you want. Health is something that is priceless. Your personal health is something that you probably ignore until something happens. There are lots of things you won't be able to do if your health fails.

I personally didn't give much importance to my health, until about three years ago. I started to feel pains and the pains are growing. There are a lot of many other symptoms with the pains. Through research I knew it is fibromyalgia. A weird illness that is not degenerative. Doctors don't want to say it's the definitive diagnosis because most doctors don't know about it. It is difficult to understand. It is difficult to live with. I learned a lot while living with it and perhaps I would not learn those things if I don't have it. At times I could think it's a curse, but it's a blessing in a way.

I finally had the time to setup a blog and in this blog I would share things that I learned about health and my faith. I would definitely not survive this battle without God and I hope that I'd be able to help others who has it and maybe those who has other illnesses.

It could be possible to live healthy with fibromyalgia and I am just starting to learn to do that. For now, I can say that a healthy body, mind and soul is necessary, not just for those who have illnesses but for everyone.

So what is fibromyalgia? I used Claudia Marek's letter to explain the illness to my friends. Claudia Marek is a nurse in the US who also has fibromyalgia. You can find the letter here.