For almost five years, a woman woke up with severe abdominal pain, but her husband forbade her to see a doctor Anna woke up with abdominal pain. At first she endured it, thinking it would pass. Then she got used to living with it, the way people live with constant fatigue or the noise outside the window. Her husband said the same thing every time: — It’s gastritis. Don’t make things up. He worked as a doctor, and Anna trusted him. She took the pills he brought her, tried not to complain, not to