before anything else

My body is catching up to me, and I think it’s about time to put my body and mental well-being before anything else.

“Just ask the Mirror your question before anything else comes up.”

“Right now, the conditions are not favorable to any kind of operation. And we’ve been clear about that. It is necessary to take care of the civilian population that’s in that area before anything else happens,” he said.

We do everything we can right there, before anything else, to make sure that the patient is OK for now, and we don’t stop until they are as OK as we can make them.

He noted “the family has put the wagons down” and is looking “after family first, before anything else.”