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Story advice please!
I have a character, an elderly senior official in a roughly bronze-age city with roughly bronze-age medical science.
I want him to have a progressive medical condition which he is trying to conceal, which will eventually kill him, and which requires him to take frequent, sometimes extended, lavatory breaks.
What is his illness, and what would people around him be able to observe?

Wooden Loom Preserved By Fire 3,500 Years Ago Now Reveals Bronze Age Textile Revolution https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/wooden-loom-preserved-by-fire-3500-years-ago/

Wooden Loom Preserved By Fire 3,500 Years Ago Now Reveals Bronze Age Textile Revolution
A wooden loom that was preserved by a devastating fire 3,500 years ago has revealed key aspects of the Bronze Age textile revolution.

Should we be surprised that the peoples of the Bronze Age chose to create their gods in their own image? After all, in the present day, the American Right have managed to recreate Jesus of Nazareth in their own image, a far more audacious intellectual feat.