PHILOSOPHY OF KERIK
The Tenth Kilometer
The Tenth Kilometer is a documentary account of nine years of life with gout: from the first attacks, loss of mobility, disability and a cane to regaining the ability to walk ten kilometers. Personal experience is combined with current medical knowledge about gout. It is a book about mistakes, treatment, responsibility and systematically rebuilding a way of life.
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Gout, Disability, and Returning to Life
The Tenth Kilometer is a documentary account of nine years of life with gout: from the first attacks, loss of mobility, disability and a cane to regaining the ability to walk ten kilometers. Personal experience is combined with current medical knowledge about gout. It is a book about mistakes, treatment, responsibility and systematically rebuilding a way of life.
Available editions
- Ukrainian edition
- English edition
The return to mobility
About the book
The book works on three levels: a documentary personal story, current medical knowledge about gout, and practical experience of systematically rebuilding a way of life.
Medical explanations are kept distinct from personal experience. The author does not claim a miraculous cure; the story is about moving from uncontrolled disease to systematic management, treatment and restored function.
Contents
- 01
The Last House on the Mountain
- 02
Two Schools and Two Ways of Thinking
- 03
Kyiv: Survive, Study, Earn
- 04
Business at the Table with a Drink
- 05
Dubai, Africa, and the Feeling of Invulnerability
- 06
Mosquitoes, Malaria, and Chikungunya
- 07
The First Big Toe
- 08
What Gout Really Is
- 09
Why an Attack Hurts as if the Joint Is Burning
- 10
Years of Denial
- 11
Service, Stress, and the Phrase “I Wish You Good Health”
- 12
The Day I Could Not Put on My Shoes
- 13
From “Fit with Limitations” to Disability
- 14
Why Gout Develops: Genetics, Kidneys, Alcohol, Food, and Metabolism
- 15
What Africa Could and Could Not Have Done
- 16
Treating an Attack Does Not Mean Treating the Disease
- 17
A Systemic Approach
- 18
From a Cane and 500 Meters to Ten Kilometers
- 19
What I Saw in the Experiences of Other People with Gout
- 20
Incurable Does Not Mean Invincible
- 21
The Tenth Kilometer
- 22
Practical Appendix: What a Person Should Know After Diagnosis
- 23
Sources and Notes
Medical basis
Where the book discusses the causes, mechanisms, diagnosis or treatment of gout, it draws on clinical guidance from NICE, the American College of Rheumatology and EULAR, together with scientific reviews and studies listed in the sources. This does not imply endorsement of the book by those organizations.
This book is not a medical textbook and is not a substitute for professional medical advice.