Catherine Keyl almost wanted an injection during her recent hernia horror. She was in such bad shape that she couldn’t bear it anymore. “I thought: if I have to continue like this, then leave it alone.”
She couldn’t sit, she couldn’t stand, she couldn’t do anything at all: Catherine Keyl lay flat for months at the end of last year due to severe pain when moving. If she had to go out, she would use a wheelchair. There was fear of a blocked abdominal artery, but the doctor diagnosed bursitis. That turned out to be a wrong diagnosis.
Injection for Cath
Ultimately it turned out to be a hernia and Catherine has now recovered nicely. They were terrible months, especially mentally, she looks back in an interview with Weekend. “Of course! I really thought for a while: I don’t like this at all. If I have to continue like this, then leave it alone.”
The interviewer on duty has a sense of drama: “As in: could they have given you an injection?”
Catherine replies: “Well, that might be going too far. But in that direction, haha!”
Pain in groin
How exactly is Catherine doing? “It goes well. I still have severe pain in my groin occasionally, but that seems to go away over time. There are different types of hernias: in the hip, on your shoulder – I have it in my lower back and it radiates to my groin.”
She continues: “I can walk again, stand, basically everything, so that’s very nice, but I can’t stand for long yet. I used to walk an hour a day, but I can’t manage that now. I can’t get further than about twenty minutes because of the pain.”
To recover
It is a matter of persevering, says Catherine. “It completely depends on the self-healing capacity of my body. The doctors cannot say how long it will last, two months or six months. To be honest, I thought I would be much further along by now.”
She concludes: “I’m not worried, I’m in very good hands. But I am impatient, I want it to go faster.”