Doctors comprising Imam’s medical team say that Imam was complying with the disease by saying that all of this discomfort was due to his age.
When we asked about that matter he with a comely smile was saying: this weakness is because of being old and you want to cure an old man but you cannot.
A memoirs by Dr. Hasan Arefee), Source: Character sketch of Imam Khomeini; with the efforts made by Gholamalee Rajaee, volueme 3, pp.277-28