Personal narrative explores the pain and grief related to immobility, highlighting everyday human experiences.
This essay describes the author’s experience with a mountaineering injury and how this immobility, frustration, and loss of autonomy provided a glimpse into patients’ persistent pain, fear, and grief that accompany a permanent loss of function or life.
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