Now that my post-surgery pains are more than just tolerable, I can think straight. I wonder if it is the other way around!

Sardello, a fan of Rudolf Steiner wrote: “When there is a dysfunction of the organs, the life processes create an intense stimulation of the nerve processes, which is experienced as pain.”

After surgery my metabolism went awry. I had so much gas in my body. Although my left foot was taken off traction, I still felt pinned down to one side because my left foot and  leg were bandaged snugly. I barely heard one doctor say it was to prevent embolism. Obviously my nerve processes were over stimulated hence the pain.

According to Sardello: “Pain has to do with the nerve processes of the body. In normal life, when we are well, the nerve processes function in smooth relation with the life processes and we feel a vitality in the organs of the body…. Soul processes are also reflected in the organs of the body, and are thus intimately related to the life processes.”

Sardello continued: “Modern medicine looks at pain as a technical problem. The majority of physicians put forth the view that pain can be managed primarily through drugs. Others believe that some pain cannot be managed and offer death as a remedy kindly called doctor-assisted suicide. Neither group sees ant value in suffering itself and both views have a one-sided sense of pain, limiting it to the physical realm. With such an outlook, intense feeling becomes unbearable because the spirit is easily broken.”

I now see why doctors did not seem to believe my pains throughout my medical history not only this time when I broke my left hip.

“All physicians undergo a discipline early in training that shuts them off from their feelings in the presence of someone in pain. Confronted with a reality over which they have no control, they concentrate solely in the practical concerns of what can be done.”