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Just in a bit of pain and not being able to sleep.
Tell us about the worst pain you have had.
No roasting, no one up man ship. Just the truth.
Great-Kazoo
05-05-2018, 23:22
Define pain? To some a splinter is the end of the world. To others a gaping chest wound from the opposing teams small arms is a "close one"
pickenup
05-05-2018, 23:25
Traveling cross country a bunch of years ago on a Harley.
Had soft shoes on and tried kick starting it (no electric) it kicked back.
I hit the ground thinking I was going to throw up.
One of the most painful experiences of my life.
Spent the rest of that trip kicking it over with my left foot.
(next Harley had an electric start)
Define pain? To some a splinter is the end of the world. To others a gaping chest wound from the opposing teams small arms is a "close one"
Post femur fracture, internally fixated with titanium rod, two screws at knee, and pinned through trochanteric. I consider this about an 8/10 pain. There was worse earlier...
1. Gout+Asprin
2.Gout
3. Total knee replacement (distant 3rd)
Thank you guys for the replies. It is helping take my mind off the pain.
gnihcraes
05-05-2018, 23:42
Bleed on my brain for 36 hours.
Radiation necrosis on brain 9 years later that was the supposed cure to the prior. It worked but sucked bad in the end. Brain swelling.
Now, central pain syndrome, bad result from brain surgery to fix the prior necrosis. Spinal cord type of injury during surgery. Pain center of brain.
No cure, no meds help much. Feels like a bad sunburn on half my body, 24x7, weather changes make it worse. 6 years now....
Time to try and sleep... I feel your pain.
Can't wait to read all the stories through the night.
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Wolfshoon
05-06-2018, 00:00
Kidney stone blockage, had to wait 5 days for surgery to be lasered out. Spent 4 out of 5 of those nights in ER on separate visits (talk about insurance co pay max out in a hurry). Think I got maybe 9 hours sleep over that event. Only time in my life I thought that checking out might be preferable. Learned Aurora south medical is better than brighton (even though brighton is a much higher class facility) since my Doc is on that campus and can access records easier. They should have checked me in and put me on a IV drip, instead they kept sending me home with prescriptions that mildly cut the pain by 10-15% after 8-10 hours each visit.
I was going to answer the OP, but I realized that it's incredibly hard to classify "worst" when it comes to pain, isn't it?
I mean, you've got the crushing, ringing pain of catching your arm or elbow with the car door, or catching yourself on the doorknob.
You've got the burning, bruising heat of the pain of accidentally injuring your unmentionables somehow- even a glancing blow is enough to bring you to your knees.
There are several hellish levels of migraines- and they all seem to stop time between an inhale and an exhale.
Depending on the location, damn paper or cardboard cuts can be pretty significant in the pain department.
Arthritis can have some very exquisitely painful eternities, too.
I have been bitten by a fairly diverse group of beasties. None of them were pleasant. Geckos have surprisingly powerful jaws. Macaws, even moreso. Burmese Pythons have an especially vindictive manner of rocking their jaws side to side, once they have sunk their fangs as deep as possible. Lovebirds and parakeets have a bite that rivals a bird ten times their size, for pain-and those little bastards will take a chunk out of you in a heartbeat. Dogs and cats, of course, but they're pretty average. I once had a foot-long baby iguana that was, inch for inch, the most aggressive critter I'd ever owned. Razor sharp claws, shredding bony plates that sure as hell didn't belong on a plant eater. He'd try and dominate me every chance he got, which made his mealtimes a real challenge. (After being introduced to his general 'character', we named him Temujin, Gnghis Khan.) About a month later, we found him a home with someone that owned two six-foot Iguanas and wasn't intimidated by Temujin's trifling bloodletting.
I have been fortunate to have not broken any bones (that I am aware of), or I would have that to compare.
Hmmm.
Besides debilitating Migraines for 40 years?
Double PE (old body)
Broken arm (old tractor crank)
Broken wrist (old snowmobile)
OtterbatHellcat
05-06-2018, 00:18
Hmm. We're speaking of physical pain of course.
I'd say the first seriously stupid pain I felt was the worst, because I also had no idea what else was coming down the pike throughout life thus far.
Exploded appendix when I was 17 yrs old. Made it through the night, drove myself to the clinic next morning...was declined service, ....and then drove myself to the hospital. Humana Mountain View at the time....where a certain Dr. Virgil Rose did what they call a "rebound" test on my abdomen. Maybe a 15 on a 1-10 scale.
Had I thought about it sooner, I would have ripped his brain out though his eyeball sockets when he did that.
:)
Passed Gall Stones....for years. Yea I don't know what the hell I was thinking. Finally when I was sure I was going to die one night I had the wife drive me to the ER. Gangrene caused me to be in the hospital just under 30 days.
theGinsue
05-06-2018, 00:50
My second worst pain would be the worst time I dealt with my lower back issues. Back in May of 2016 I had muscle spasms in the sciatica so severe I had to use a walker to walk.
The worst pain was a headache I got from a concussion after my motorcycle wreck. The ER helped minimize it and found that the pain had caused my BP to escalate to stroke level (something like 192/127).
Of course, having the doctor brush a nerve group in my groin while performing a vasectomy - after I'd warned him many times that I don't get much effectiveness out of local anestheitcs and telling him I felt him making the incision - wasn't a picnic either.
beast556
05-06-2018, 00:57
Fell off a bridge when I was kid and broke my cheek bone and shattered my leg. Woke up in the middle of the sugery worst pain ever for a few minutes till they got me knocked out again.
Recently had a wisdom tooth extracted with out getting numbed up because of the infection. Was some serious serious pain 10 out of 10.
theGinsue
05-06-2018, 01:09
Post femur fracture, internally fixated with titanium rod, two screws at knee, and pinned through trochanteric. I consider this about an 8/10 pain. There was worse earlier...
Isn't the femur the hardest bone in the body to break? I'm sure there's a story there that you'll need to share once the pain diminishes.
Some of the other stories of folks pain make me feel very blessed. You people are some tough bastards.
Oh, and Tan - I'm seeing a trend....My advice, stick to common house cats - what they typically do to you when angry/scared is far less than those others critters. (Snakes & lizards....gives me the willy's)
Through everything I've been through in my life, I get asked when in a hospital setting to rate my pain on a scale of 1 to 10. The highest I've ever gone was a 9. I tell them that there must be something out there that I haven't yet experienced and I'm saving the 10 for when that happens. [microwave]
Then there's the Marine brother-in-law; "Pain is weakness leaving the body." I want to hurt him so badly every time he says it.
Around our household, we've twisted a common phrase from Descartes into "I hurt, therefore I am."
Broken neck.
Broken back.
Broken leg.
Snapped ACL r/knee.
Severely torn meniscus l/knee.
Completely torn rotator cuff.
Tonsils removed at 25.
Upper palate surgery for sleep apnea/snoring (NOT recommended!)
Two lumbar surgeries, laminotomy and laminectomy, for stenosis and sciatica.
Root canal by a hack that didn't deaden properly.
Yes, pain is my companion, and opiates and I don't get along.
I could probably come up with more, but it's late and I can't sleep.....
hunterhawk
05-06-2018, 03:55
I put a nail in my thumb from my nail gun yesterday so thats blocking my pain memory right now... didn't hurt when i did it... now many hours later it hurts.
I put a nail in my thumb from my nail gun yesterday so thats blocking my pain memory right now... didn't hurt when i did it... now many hours later it hurts.
Well fuck, I imagine that DOES hurt! Damn.....
hurley842002
05-06-2018, 05:29
Woke up from sedation during a catheter ablation on my heart, wanna talk about "heart burn"!
encorehunter
05-06-2018, 05:44
I put a nail in my thumb from my nail gun yesterday so thats blocking my pain memory right now... didn't hurt when i did it... now many hours later it hurts.
Did you have to use a hammer to remove yourself from the building? I've had to do that a couple times.
Worst pain for me is the 2nd degree burns over 20% of my upper body. The other 4% or so of the 3rd degree burns didn't really hurt.
Getting shot in the leg with a .45 was way down the list compared to that.
Pistol Packing Preacher
05-06-2018, 06:12
Gall Bladder attack!
Scale 1 thru 10... it was a 12.
I was on all fours thinking I was going home to see Jesus!
No Joke! I thought... so this is how I go!
Had it removed at North Suburban with a wonderful staff!
Bailey Guns
05-06-2018, 06:31
Immediate pain from an injury...the type that hurts but goes away relatively quickly...is one thing. Chronic is another. Like a bunch of others here, I'm in chronic back pain all the time. But, you kinda learn to live with it.
Injuries with tremendous pain, too numerous to mention.
I think the single most painful experience I've had was getting a shot of antibiotics when I had food poisoning. It was Keflin or Keflik or something like that. Doc said, "This is gonna hurt." I told him I was ready and he said, "No. This is really gonna hurt." He had me lay over the bed and drop my drawers. When he started the injection I saw a flash of light it hurt so bad. I actually passed out for about 10 seconds. It was God-awful painful. I've had some really severe injuries but nothing compared to the instant, even if short-lived, pain from that injection.
Injury pain... I worked at Lakewood Country Club when I was 16 or 17. It was night and I had an accident on one of the maintenance carts when the steering broke. It was one of those big 3-wheeled things. Wound up tearing muscle and tendon in my thigh away from knee and hip joints. But it was about 10pm and there were only two of us around. I didn't know where the other guy was but it was somewhere on the other side of the course. I had to crawl back to the maintenance shack to call for help. That sucked...as did the recovery. Luckily I healed a lot quicker at 17 than I do at 50+.
Some of the stories I'm reading make me feel pretty fortunate.
Kidney stones . . . twice. Nothing else has even been close. I have a pretty high tolerance for pain, but I was doubled over and in the ER immediately for the first one. Second one I was pretty sure what it was (oh, that familiar agony) and toughed it out for the first day, but started throwing up from the pain and couldn't keep anything down . . . so got really dehydrated. Ended up in the ER again for fluids and had to get anti-nausea medicine to fight through that one til it passed. Fortunately both passed within a couple days.
16 nail, from gun, into knee and nailed 2 fingers to a stud. Pulled them and kept working. But gout has to be the worst pain, I've ever experienced. Seems, if I'm the cause of the pain, I can handle quite a bit. Stick me with a needle and I've been known to pass out.[Dunno]
Another vote for Kidney stone. The actual stone is bad enough, but then they want to shove a camera through your wanker. Then, the worst part...the first piss afterwards...feels like peeing glass shards.
You hear a lot about the pain of childbirth. I've had two women who've had children, and had kidney stones. They both said the stone was worse.
Another vote for Kidney stone. The actual stone is bad enough, but then they want to shove a camera through your wanker. Then, the worst part...the first piss afterwards...feels like peeing glass shards.
You hear a lot about the pain of childbirth. I've had two women who've had children, and had kidney stones. They both said the stone was worse.
Lady across the street says the same thing. She's had three kids and a few kidney stones. Says she'd rather give birth anyday than have another stone.
2nd worst pain was a Molar inlay replacement, by a crappy dentist. In retrospect, I dont think the tooth had enough for a second grind and fill. I warned him that my body processes Novacane in minutes.
In the end I had 5 Novacane, 3 Maracane and 2 Septacane shots. I still felt every rotation of the drill.
3rd worst pain was water in the knee teatments in comunist PL. Needle in the knee twice a day for a week.
1st worst pain I would not wish on an enemy.
Oh, and Tan - I'm seeing a trend....My advice, stick to common house cats - what they typically do to you when angry/scared is far less than those others critters. (Snakes & lizards....gives me the willy's)
Hah! I know, right? That was when I worked in a pet store. Lord, the amount of blood I shed...
I rememered another incident that was quite painful for an extended period of time: 1983, summer. I was riding my ten-speed up a small hill. I was also going at a pretty good clip, so as to get up the aforementoned hill. I was leaning over the handlebars, pedalling for all I was worth, when two this happened simulatneously- I hit a patch of sand, and my chain came off. I flew over the handlebars, skidded along my back and landed splayed like a starfish, watching my bike bounce over me and come to such a violent landing that the pedal embedded itself into the ground next to the curb.
It wouldn't have been so bad, save for the fact that I was wearing the popular summertime style at the time: bare feet, terry shorts, and a tube top. I had pretty much scraped off the top layer of skin off the left side of my back, from waist to shoulder- and had a nice layer of gravel dug into it, to boot. And scrapes and cuts on my legs, but that was nothing new for a tomboy in summer. I had to walk my bike back home, but I was only about a half mile away. Having my Mom scrub the gravel from my raw back was pretty agonizing- almost as bad as the peroxide that followed. Healing was tough, because my whole side would scab and then crack open and bleed if I moved wrong.
Yeah, that hurt.
Withdrawn.
Mods, you can close this thread.
Grant H.
05-06-2018, 11:56
Dead and decaying gall bladder (surgeons words, not mine), bad case of severe acute pancreatitis caused by a gall stone lodged in the bile duct, and a raging infected fluid pocket along my diaphragm...
Put my stubborn ass in the hospital for 40 consecutive days, and then at home for 2.5 months with in home nurse care.
Some of the worst pain I have ever felt. The worst thing I can remember from the hospital is them placing a drain in the infected fluid pocket, by putting a series of progressively larger needles in, and then pushing the drain tube through between my ribs.
Again everyone,
Thank you for the stories about what your experiences have been with pain. It give me hope and relief that we can overcome pain.
Stodg73
And yes, there is a story behind me too.
And yes, there is a story behind me too.
Feel free to share, if you're so inclined. As Spider Robinson says, "Shared pain is lessened, shared joy increased." I know he wasn't talking about physical pain as much as otherwise, but the sentiment remains the same.
gnihcraes
05-06-2018, 21:24
I forgot about the kidney stones.
And the angiogram, groin to brain behind the right eye. They inject the contrast dye and it burns like a mother... screaming on the table as they tell you to lay still. Sure..
Loved readying the other stories. Makes me feel better about my situation and we're not alone.
I just keep going as best I can, not many other choices.
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OtterbatHellcat
05-06-2018, 22:08
I just keep going as best I can, not many other choices.
Yessir.
Grant H.
05-06-2018, 22:13
I just keep going as best I can, not many other choices.
Yessir.
That's about all you can do.
Pain comes in a lot of flavors.
What hurts more? A broken finger, a dislocated thumb, carb cleaner in the eye, a 32 day migraine headache, a motorcycle crash that landed me in the ICU, carb cleaner in a cut you didn't know you had, taking a shot to the groin, broken wrist, having a tooth filled without a local, second degree sunburn? The all hurt a lot, but all seem bearable. Pain is hard to quantify, that why when doctors ask me how much pain I'm in usually the number is a lot lower than they expect. A broken finger usually rates about a 3, a kidney stone rates about a 5, I think the highest I've ever said was a 7. They gave me fentanyl for that.
I just keep going as best I can, not many other choices.
...and there you have it. Just keep chugging along. I think I can, I think I can, I think i can...
https://media1.tenor.com/images/6b361890e1c6168be0dc66a38e1cb631/tenor.gif?itemid=9140945
One day at a time.
I’ve had more than my share of dental work , had a tooth crack to below the gum line. Had to pull it and I eventually got a bone graft and titainium implant. Pretty awesome when someone puts a ratchet in your mouth lol. The pain was worse than I can put into words. He tried multiple times to get me numbed up. Didn’t take , Felt every bit pulling the tooth. I was shaking and even started crying uncontrollably on the way home, I felt like I was going to crap my pants , my body was just overwhelmed , no control. By far worst I’ve been through.
pickenup
05-07-2018, 01:15
Some of these posts makes me hurt just reading them, and remind me of other pains, like the sciatic nerve acting up. Basically had to crawl into the chiropractors office. He stuck an industrial "tens" unit on me and then told me to go get some pain meds over the counter at Walgreens. I had a tens unit at home. I went to his office to GET pain meds. First (and last) time I ever tried to get some pharmaceutical ones, and he sends me to the store??? I would of knocked his ass out if I could have stood up.
Or the time I thought I was dying when it was the ATTACK OF THE KIDNEY STONES. They say that is the closest men will ever feel to a woman giving birth. All I can say is, if giving birth feels anything like kidney stones, how can a woman decide to have a second child?
Other pains like lower back, torn rotator cuff, etc. I still say that when the Harley kicked back, that was the worst pain. Only people that have had it happen know what kind of pain that is.
BPTactical
05-07-2018, 07:16
Pain?
Married 31 years.....
Pain?
Married 31 years.....
https://imgur.com/r/archerFX/PXGzNmj
adamanteus
05-07-2018, 11:13
Pleurisy was pretty bad. It's an infection of the pleura which is the lining of your lung cavity. When everything is good you don't even know it's there. When it's infected you feel your lung rub against it on every breath.
The second time i got it wasn't as bad because I went to the doc as soon as i recognized what was happening rather than let it progress until having taken my last breath seemed preferable to taking even one more.
Another worst I was flying a couple of weeks after having the flu. I guess i was still stopped up and when the pressure change came as we descended, I felt the most acute pain I've ever felt in my head...somewhere behind and a little above the area between the bridge of my nose and my left eyeball. I wondered if I was having an aneurysm, or if a huge wad of blood, meat, and God knows what was about to explode out of my face. I had to disregard the seatbelt sign and run to the lavatory to throw up, the pain was so bad. Then i puked in every bathroom between my arrival gate and the ground transportation area, the trashcan next to the shuttle stop, and into a plastic shopping bag in the back seat of the shuttle. The pain stayed with me for at least 18 hours.
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68Charger
05-07-2018, 11:18
Broke a bone in my left hand playing soccer... some girl though she'd kick the ball out of my hand when I was goalie. Wasn't even called a foul... that was about a 3.
Accidentally put my hand on a cooling lead pig (big ingot) in junior high... 2nd degree over most of my palm, about a 4.
Broken nose and recovery from surgery to correct that and cartilage damage left from when I fell face first into a fireplace grate (that fall was at 1.5 years old, broken nose when I was 16)... that was about a 4, but lingered longer.
All 4 wisdom teeth broken up and removed at once... when I woke was about a 6, I asked if anyone got the license plate of the truck that must've hit me while I was out.
Kidney stones... yeah, at least an honest 9... any time you build a fever and have shakes from the pain, it's bad.
Gout: have to qualify where... left big toe was about an 8, enough for a mild fever and immobilizing. But the time gout attacked my left ankle joint is my new 10. Full fever, shaking and excruciating to the point I remember thinking taking off the whole foot was a viable option... and couldn't possibly be more pain than I was already in.
Hang in there...
My worse had to be my liver transplant. First 2 days after the surgery the doc told me to layoff the pain pump because I had taken every dose possible in two days. This including the evening doses, come to find out the pain pump wasn't working so I was getting nothing for 2 days. After they got it running the first push of the button I was ready to run down the hall.
Kidney Stone = 10 on the pain scale for me. Went into the ER and they kept screwing around with different wussy pain meds before administering the good stuff. During the waiting times to see which pain med would work I was sweating like crazy and dry heaving from the pain. At one point I whipped out my pocket knife and seriously considered digging it out of my side myself. If my wife wasn't there to tear the knife out of my hand I really don't know if I wouldn't have started digging. I know it wouldn't have hurt any worse at the time.
Ruptured Disk in neck = 8 on the pain scale. This ruptured disk pushed on the nerve bundle to my right arm and caused excruciating pain in my arm for weeks. Any amount of lengthy sleep was impossible during this time. The only saving grace to this situation is that it happened about a year after my Kidney stone so I knew it could hurt worse but didn't.
Anything pain associated after these two events honestly seems like no big deal.
Gout: have to qualify where... left big toe was about an 8, enough for a mild fever and immobilizing. But the time gout attacked my left ankle joint is my new 10. Full fever, shaking and excruciating to the point I remember thinking taking off the whole foot was a viable option... and couldn't possibly be more pain than I was already in.
Yeah, big toe is inconvenient. Knee, I'll avoid stairs as much as possible. Ankle and instep, I've had broken bones that were less painful.
I forgot about this fun experience I had. I guess my psyche was protecting me. About a month after my first spinal fusion surgery, a fever over 102 put me into the ER. I was laying in bed and attempting to move, and my core muscles went into a total lockdown spasm. Imagine your muscles contracting to a point way beyond what your attempting to stress them can do. I was afraid the muscles were going to tear. I had MRSA inside the surgical site (outside sutures looked healthy) which was causing the spasms. The nurses that saw what I was experiencing were saying, that's like child birth. I sure wasn't going to say that.
Upper arm getting ripped out of its socket when the snow crust broke during a glissade while wearing a 40 lb pack. A long self evac, not fun. Later shoulder dislocations weren't so bad but surgical repair solved that. Plus getting fat, old, and smarter...not necessarily in that order.
PS big toe gout, done that. Half as painful in my mind, separated by decades.
Pleurisy was pretty bad. It's an infection of the pleura which is the lining of your lung cavity. When everything is good you don't even know it's there. When it's infected you feel your lung rub against it on every breath.
The second time i got it wasn't as bad because I went to the doc as soon as i recognized what was happening rather than let it progress until having taken my last breath seemed preferable to taking even one more.
Another worst I was flying a couple of weeks after having the flu. I guess i was still stopped up and when the pressure change came as we descended, I felt the most acute pain I've ever felt in my head...somewhere behind and a little above the area between the bridge of my nose and my left eyeball. I wondered if I was having an aneurysm, or if a huge wad of blood, meat, and God knows what was about to explode out of my face. I had to disregard the seatbelt sign and run to the lavatory to throw up, the pain was so bad. Then i puked in every bathroom between my arrival gate and the ground transportation area, the trashcan next to the shuttle stop, and into a plastic shopping bag in the back seat of the shuttle. The pain stayed with me for at least 18 hours.
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Had that once. Second time I thought I had it wasn't - it was a double PE and was ultimately much worse.
Colorado Osprey
05-08-2018, 05:01
90% Perforated eardrum from hot metal slag when torch cutting steel-- That was my 9 Felt like a knife going into the center of my head through my ear.
Scrubbing a stub from a severed digit without any type of pain killer. New 10. Lost my hearing due to pain for over an hour after scrubbing the stub.
hurley842002
05-08-2018, 05:39
All 4 wisdom teeth broken up and removed at once... when I woke was about a 6, I asked if anyone got the license plate of the truck that must've hit me while I was out.
Out? Pssshhhh, that was an extra charge, which dad wasn't going to pay for. All 4, broken up and removed, with just a local. I can still hear the cracking to this day. Ironically, my best friend got his pulled the same day, he was put "out", so you can bet I talked crap to him about being a "wuss", even tho deep down I would have loved to be put out.
Out? Pssshhhh, that was an extra charge, which dad wasn't going to pay for. All 4, broken up and removed, with just a local. I can still hear the cracking to this day. Ironically, my best friend got his pulled the same day, he was put "out", so you can bet I talked crap to him about being a "wuss", even tho deep down I would have loved to be put out.
Had 4 wizdoms pulled too. Too cheap to pay for the knock out. Wasn't that bad. [emoji477]
The pain from the dentist trying to rip my mouth open another inch that sucked.
[panic]
https://health.usnews.com/health-care/patient-advice/slideshows/on-a-scale-from-1-to-10-most-painful-medical-conditions
https://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/Pain/Pages/20-painful-conditions.aspx
So many articles and blog saying gout is much more painful than child birth.
https://www.google.com/search?q=child+birth+vs+gout&oq=child+birth+vs+gout&aqs=chrome..69i57j0.2812j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
3/30/18 I had a malfunction of a ar15 in 45acp. The bullet that passed through my leg did not hurt nearly as much as the turniquit that police put on. About 5 days after surgery my leg hurt so bad it would put me to tears. 3 Oxycodone did nothing for pain. Hell yes I feel alive.
Life has been very rough since my wife passed away 6 years ago, mainly on raising my daughters and working full time, making sure everyone else is happy. This accident has woke my ass up and realizing life is short.
[shit-happens]
I've gone through quite a litany of physically painful injuries/surgeries/mishaps but in reading the replies here, my issues pale by comparison to what some of you have been through.
3/30/18 I had a malfunction of a ar15 in 45acp. The bullet that passed through my leg did not hurt nearly as much as the turniquit that police put on. About 5 days after surgery my leg hurt so bad it would put me to tears. 3 Oxycodone did nothing for pain. Hell yes I feel alive.
Life has been very rough since my wife passed away 6 years ago, mainly on raising my daughters and working full time, making sure everyone else is happy. This accident has woke my ass up and realizing life is short.
[shit-happens]
Wow! Glad you're on the road to recovery!
Fell a few stories and landed on a boulder. Shattered patella with an open hole in the center of my knee. Tried to walk on it, fell again. The pain became so intense that time stopped and I just lay screaming for some time. Like electricity passing through me. Everything after that was gravy :)
1. Fractured all the bones in my left hands fingers from the tip to the last knuckle, stoving it in on a rock.
2. Body slammed 20 plus times while having several cracked ribs from a previous injury in a martial arts course.
3. Had a bone in my foot come within 1/4” from sticking through my foot arch.
4. Fully compressed M1919 spring hit my index finger on a totally messed up semi auto gun.
5. Bike wreck, thrown 10’ forward of handlebars, slid about 15’ on top of course gravel and rock.
6. Salmonella for 3 weeks, didn’t eat for 2 weeks. Horrible.
“Don’t go slow, be careful” Jedi
JohnnyDrama
05-10-2018, 20:53
It occurred to me that the title of this thread could have been a theme of mine when I was in my twenties and thirties. I played and worked pretty hard then. The posts brought to mind George Carlin's joke about five twos versus one ten.
I have a few injuries that stand out but nothing that really hurt (>4) at the time. These include a dive I took where my knee landed on a rock. It would've swollen up quite a bit but was able to drain through the hole the rock made. Another time I was hit in the leg by a ricochet. The bullet fragment is still there. I know I'm getting tired when those start to ache. Mostly now I just have a lot of scars and aches from running, jumping, falling, crashing, and other cases of less than stellar judgment in the past. The ones that bug me most are the overuse injuries in my lower legs from running, and my shoulders from push-ups. What hurts most is that I can't bust out a six mile run or 20 pull-ups like I used to.
Enjoy the small aches, they mean you're living.
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