November 20, 2023, five o'clock.
Feverish, Lou wakes up in a sweat, with intense pain in her thigh,
“as if mice were coming to gnaw the bone”
.
This is not the first time this pain has appeared.
She has already hit him, the old woman, and several times in previous weeks, always between the hip and the knee.
But never with such intensity.
In the evening, she feels her thigh and spots a slight bump at the back, barely noticeable.
Lou limps, but decides to go to work.
It's difficult: the young woman is a horse trainer.
But it was only in the middle of the day, when the pain returned, that she went to the emergency room.
“I had never felt such pain in my life.”
Doctors first think of sciatica, a viral infection or a cyst.
But in the days that followed, the fever did not go down and his leg doubled in size.
The doctors decide to carry out more in-depth examinations and on Christmas Eve, the diagnosis falls…
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