I don't think they understand what this is that I'm going through. And I can't seem to describe it to them. At one time, somebody said to me. -"Well. you got gastritis. That sounds like gas?" I said no, its not gas. I've had gastritis and I know what it is. This is "pain". It is not gas of any kind. I guess unless you go through it yourself, you dont realize what it is.
I was in pain and having to convince doctors sometimes. that I was in too much pain was really an awful thing to have to do. The pain was terrible, just terrible. Felt like it was just hell. That hurt real bad because I needed to go the bathroom and I couldn't. That pain was so bad. If I had anyway of killing myself. I actually would have." This is not thc story of a single patient. Incedence of severe pain among cancer patients is as high as 50 %. Rather 70% patients suffer from severe pain among the subset of advanced…
