Neglecting the disease

After I woke up the next day, I was ready to go to work. The pain killers prescribed by doctor were only to be used for 15 days. Daily two doses were to be taken. I worked for the 15 days well. But, after that I stopped the medicine. The next day the pain returned after a full day's work. Again, I took to the painkillers.

I had a bad feeling. I knew that what I was doing was wrong. Probably, if I was well advised, I would have changed the doctor. But, one thing was that I was ill-advised. Another thing was that I was stubborn. I sticked to my own views and beliefs. Yet another thing was I was in the midst of auditing and was running against time.

All these things coupled together to prolong the agony for me. I again started to use the painkillers. But, I used only one dose per day. Also, along with painkillers, I also used painkilling ointments and balms at work. All these combined together gave a false sense of security.

I had met my deadline and had finished all the audit work. One day, while sitting at office which was near to my house, I got a call from my wife. She requested me to bring some homeopathic medicines for her. On that day I got a mild fever. I told no to her. But she persisted saying that she was unwell. The medical store was around 1.5 to 2 km from my office. Normally, I know that I can walk any distance. I started walking. Midway, I found that I was tired. After reaching the medical shop, I felt that I had exhausted myself. Nevertheless, I returned home by walk only.

At that time, I did not realize that my legs are weakening. But, I told my wife what happened. She got worried. After two or three days, I recognized that my legs are slowly losing sensation. The feeling of touch was mild. I was walking like a drunken man. My steps were not firm.

My second daughter, 2 years old, sometimes used to fall upon me while I was laying in bed. Sometimes, she would fall upon my private parts which used to bring me a lot of pain. When I was losing sensation of legs, one day, my kid fell upon my private parts again. Then, there was pain but it was not immediately felt. I told my wife about that.

I had some homeopathic books at home. I studied some of them and found that if pain is there at the center point of shoulder bones, it can be T.B. I started to use my own homeopathic medicine apart from Feverol.

Again, we went to the doctor. I told him plainly that I got T.B. He said since there was no cough, there can be no T.B. He again prescribed some tests. Among them was blood test. Normally, I had good blood. Any time a blood test was performed upon me, blood used to come fast onto the syringe. But, at that time, I had to endure much pain because blood was not coming onto the syringe fast enough.

I was thinking that I got some neck problem. After the tests were over, we wanted to go to the doctor. He was busy for two days. I took some antibiotics. Finally, when we caught up with the doctor, he advised us to see some general physician because the problem was not with the bones, but with the fever.

My wife asked me whether I would like to see a general physician. I replied that I needed only an orthopedic.

In the meantime, my appetite had gone fully. Also, I did not visit the lavatory for 15 days. The urge to go is always there, but when I sit there it is not at all coming. Also, there was no urge to urinate. There was no full bladder type urgent calls to the bathroom. I was only visiting the bathroom routinely and emptying the bladder. I told my wife about these two additional symptoms.