It's the evidence of disease that only the patient themselves experiences and reports to us, like discomfort, chills, or the pain in our hospital patient's stomach.
Your nurse wouldn't let me see you, and I...really wanted to see you, so I sort of faked all my symptoms. The dizziness, the chills, you know, all of it.
My companions and I had no time to collect ourselves. I don't know how they felt about being shoved inside this aquatic prison, but as for me, I was shivering all over.