I think the pain scale needs to be switched to the Hyperbole and a Half pain scale: [link]
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Steph L. - Aug 01, 2013 12:15:30 pm PDT #1016 of 30000
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
Ginger - Aug 01, 2013 12:17:12 pm PDT #1017 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I prefer Allie Brosh's improved pain scale: [link]
Steph L. - Aug 01, 2013 12:17:38 pm PDT #1018 of 30000
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
Booyah, Ginger. BOOYAH.
t edit What? I'm unemployed now. All I have to live for is the small victory of posting a link 2 minutes before anyone else. GIVE ME THAT VICTORY.
Ginger - Aug 01, 2013 12:18:05 pm PDT #1019 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Great minds....
§ ita § - Aug 01, 2013 12:19:54 pm PDT #1020 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I have *never* had a medical professional put the pain scale into more context than "ten is the worst pain you can conceive of." The cartoon faces on the chart (that nurses are supposed to use to read you) are laughable.
I've only shown one nurse tending to me the Hyperbole & a Half scale, but she laughed her ass off.
le nubian - Aug 01, 2013 12:28:16 pm PDT #1021 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Yes, the H&AH scale is about right. I like that at 4 starts the "pain is not fucking around" stage.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 01, 2013 12:28:24 pm PDT #1022 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Based on that scale, I had thought my gall bladder pain was a 7, but apparently it was a hard 8 and maybe a 9.
According to that scale I've had several injuries due to falls that would rank as a 9, since they forced involuntary moans out of me and were completely incapacitating until the pain faded. But I've heard 9 described as the pain associated with metastasized cancer, and I've only had a couple of brief moments of pain during medical procedures that I think could compare to that. For context, the rebar to the face would not, since I was still ambulatory after it.
My (thankfully rare!) worst migraines would be an 8 on the scale and most level off around a 3 or 4 if I don't get meds in my system fast enough to head them off.
EpicTangent - Aug 01, 2013 12:36:54 pm PDT #1023 of 30000
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
le nubian - Aug 01, 2013 1:02:52 pm PDT #1024 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Has anyone here tried The Fasting Diet? I heard about it on NPR and am interested in what buffistas have to say.
Kat - Aug 01, 2013 1:04:17 pm PDT #1025 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
le nubian, I like eggs quite a lot, but can't handle scrambled when it is dry and crumbly. I don't know what it is (for me, at home, it's replicated by cooking the eggs to non creaminess by having a too hot pan), but I can't imagine what they would have to do for a crepe.
I figure the pain scale is not useful and is, of course, entirely subjective. I will say when I had kidney stones the first time, I wanted to claw my way out of own skin because of the unremitting pain and there was no position that I found that relieved the pain. The second set of kidney stones were much easier to deal with and I felt like, huh, this blows, but if I drink my weight in water, I can tough it out.