| You wouldn't believe how something as simple as | | | | cancer, chances are that if you have been going to |
| making a doctor's appointment can have life altering | | | | see your doctor on a regular basis (such as for your |
| effects. Adults over the age of 35 years old are | | | | annual or biannual physical), then you will have a |
| notorious for not wanting to go to the doctor. For | | | | greater likelihood of catching it early so that you can |
| most people, this fear is associated with pain such as | | | | begin treatment on it to send the cancer into |
| going to the dentist and having to have a root canal | | | | remission. |
| done. However, for most adults, the fear of going to | | | | My grandmother always kept regular doctor |
| the doctor has more to do with the unknown- of not | | | | appointments with her physician after my |
| knowing what the doctor will say about their health. | | | | grandfather passed away. On one of her regularly |
| Even people who eat healthy foods and exercise | | | | scheduled visits, her doctor discovered that she had |
| regularly are not safe from a negative prognosis. | | | | breast cancer. However, because they had caught it |
| While the fear of going to see the doctor may be | | | | extremely early, the treatment/therapy that she had |
| very real, it is something that we need to get over if | | | | to removed the cancerous growth was nominal and |
| we are to ever be sure that we are in good health. | | | | did not last that long. Imagine what would have |
| Besides this, even if you are diagnosed with | | | | happened if she hadn't been going to the doctor or if |
| something serious such as prostate cancer or breast | | | | she had waited until she started to have symptoms! |