Letter from Frida Kahlo to Alejandro Gómez Arias, October 13, 1925 Page 2 of 7

time as for my pains, because I’m telling you in the first treatments my hands felt like paper and I sweated from the pain of the wound… which went through my hip and out of the front; I was all but left a ruin for the rest of my life or almost died, but now it’s all over, one wound has closed, and the doctor says the other will soon close. They must have explained to you what I have, right? And it’s all a question of lots of time for the fracture in my pelvis to close, and for my elbow to get better and for the other small wounds in my foot to heal…
A “crowd of folk” and a “cloud of smoke” have come to visit me, even Chucho Ríos y Valles asked about me several times by telephone and