Physical Pain and Helplessness
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For a week now I am suffering from renal colic. A 6 mm kidney stone
is clogging my ureter and my kidney is under pressure, which is very
painful.
This is a very common disease and there are many testimonials from
famous people who have suffered this in the past, for example amoung
french writers, my aera of expertise, Michel de Montaigne or
Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
I often fantasize about living in past times, in periods dear to my
heart, but this disease makes me shudder: how can we survive these
torments without Ketoprofen? My days literally revolve around this
drug that I take every 12 hours. And I know than at least the last 4
hours can be quite painful and give me a little taste of what would
be my present life without it.
To be left to suffer without remedy during a few hours (8 hours is
today my current record), in the middle of night, makes you feel very
miserable and fragile. I am quite lucky because this is for me a
parenthesis that will end with the absorption of the expected
medication. And knowing that helps a lot.
What is more, I know that this whole period will end either with the
natural expulsion of the stone or with surgery.
But what about the diseases we don't know how to treat today? You can
just imagine how patients feel.
