2024
The war has got under skin, it flows through veins, pulsates with rocket explosions. War is like a serious illness that knocks you down. It strikes and destroys everything healthy in its path. It has no pity for the elderly, for people with disabilities. Destroyed souls in destroyed bodies. Trembling voices tell horrific stories of war. About lost sight, about disability, about hiding in basements for months, about going to work under rocket attacks.
The war hits the most vulnerable harder, more painfully.
People are physically and mentally wounded. Devastation, despair, and anxiety have become the companions of existing diagnoses such as diabetes and thyrotoxicosis. There will be no record of the impact of war on a patient in a medical book. Anamnesis of war is a deep, traumatic experience inside each person. In the experience of living through the war. In sleepless nights, in the shaking of walls, in the loss of loved ones.
There is no immunity and no cure for war. This disease is carried on the feet.