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   Celebrating Christmas My brother Ikenna wanted to open his gift box on Christmas Day – 25th of December 2020. My mother did not allow him to open it. He began to cry.  “IK, wait till tomorrow. You should open your gift box on Boxing Day,” my mother told my brother. She hugged him and cleaned his tears with her hand. “Mummy, Chinyere wanted to open her gift box too,” Ikenna pointed at me. “No, mummy. It is not true. I just looked at the box,” I quickly told my mum. My mother would have frowned at me if I had not explained why I touched my gift box.  My mother made us behave properly always. She made us greet older people every time we saw them. She taught us many things including covering our mouths when we coughed. We should not pick our food to eat if it fell on the floor. We should wash our hands with soap and water after using the toilet. “Chichi, your younger brother watches what you do. Do the right things always,” she told me. Ikenna stopped crying after our...

People often request to have medical check of their bodies. When they do so, they want to have investigations done to ascertain their status in order to prevent health crises.  Truth is, medical check is an individualized assessment. Depending on the background health or disease information of the client available to the medical doctor, medical check in Mr(s) A may be different from Mr(s) B. Nevertheless, what basic tests should be done irrespective of one's previously known medical condition? General (Men and Women) Most of these tests can be done on a 1-3year-basis. Full Blood Count(FBC) . This helps to assess the entire components of the blood. Some blood cancers or other problematic diseases in the blood can be picked early if one does yearly FBC assessment. A blood sample is used. Liver Function Test . Some habits - especially excessive alcohol intake and ingestion of herbal concoction - and hepatitis viruses may slowly cause damage to the liver. One should not wait to become ...