6 Month Check-In/Reminder
Your accountability partner
Hey Sistahgurls,
We are at the halfway mark of 2025, and I wanted to ask if you’ve taken the time to schedule your annual checkups yet? What about blood work? Or a telehealth appointment to get a question answered? If the answer is no, then you must make it a priority. Early detection is better than the grave, and it’s essential to get the exams and tests needed for the betterment of you and your family.
I don’t want to be a nag, but I want to be a nag because you have a life to live, a family, and friends who love and support you. If you aren’t making your health and wellness a priority, my question is, why? What don’t you want to find out? What excuse do you keep telling yourself? What’s more important than your health?
We can sit in a salon chair every two weeks, but not go to the doctor at least twice a year. Earlier this year, I listed tests that you should all request and add to your annual checkup list.
Tests Black Women Should Request
While January is ending, I hope you all at least schedule your annual visit appointments for 2025.
Summer is around the corner, and I know most of you would rather lie out on the beach with a drink and an umbrella, but the unknown is scary. Before going on any trips, it's best to check your health from the inside. You might be allergic and have to spend the night in a hospital in Colombia.
Knowing your numbers is essential.
Knowing your overall health is essential.
Mammograms and pap smears are important.
I’m not here to rain on your parade, I’m here to remind you of what's essential, and that’s you. If you haven’t, please schedule all of your annual exams and appointments. Your body will thank you.
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I have to get active again because I have just been through a minor health crisis because of a lack of insistence on my physicians response to my symptoms and complaints of chronic pain which is one of my many diagnosis that has caused me to have to scream at them to get a new set of eyes to look at my symptoms that have persisted since ten years off and on. Long story short, during the course of what should have been a same day surgery; it would take a new surgeon to discover that a hernia was hiding a mass (code word for tumor) and that it would not have been found if I hadn’t insisted that I was in pain and pain is a signal that there is something wrong with my body. I have dealt with more pain than most people have ever experienced and it is likely that I have been accustomed to having pain in my body. But it is not something that you should be subjected to on a daily basis… we have to do our due diligence and when “they” think we’re just chasing prescriptions and other stereotypes like “having a high tolerance for pain “. No! Stop wearing your ability to endure pain as a badge of honor. It’s just another trope that needs to stop ✋🏾 now! Because it’s dangerous and unnecessarily cruel and harmful to Black womenfolk in particular. Thank goodness for sisters like yourself