“As Long As You Have Your Health”

Last month, 400 people attended a meeting in the Millennium Centre about the future of the town’s GP practices. Another 150 were turned away. Understandably, people are very concerned about their health, and where they can turn when they are unwell.  

One related phrase we hear frequently is ‘As long as you have your health’. Financial disasters can be recovered from. Burnt down houses can be rebuilt. But if you get sick, your future is no longer in your hands. Sometimes your greatest hopes in life will be disappointed. But ‘as long as you have your health’.

It sounds like a good way of keeping things in perspective – but is it actually true? Read the rest of this article written by Rev. Stephen Steele for a local Stranraer paper by clicking here.