Pneumonia

It begins with a cough that won't stop. Then fever, chills, pain with every breath. The lungs — the organ that silently works for you every second of your life — have become inflamed. They are burning. Not quietly, not gradually, but with the force of an uprising. The tissue that otherwise invisibly exchanges oxygen is now a battlefield: fluid, pus, combat.

Medicine sees bacteria, viruses, a weakened immune system. And that is correct — on the physical level. But the psychosomatic question goes further: why did your body let its defences down at precisely this moment, enough to allow the enemy to penetrate to the very core? Why are the bronchial tubes not affected, not the sinuses, but the deepest tissue of the lungs — the place where breath becomes blood, where life begins?