Nice, shrift!!!

Yeah, the broken arm was about a 5/6. And I have never screamed, although I have moaned and cried. I have a high pain tolerance, but I don't LIKE pain.

ita !, I wish so much there was a magic spell I could offer you to make this all go away. I feel for you so much.

Bon, your arm break was that long ago? Christ, how slowly are we watching SuperWire? Uh, don't answer. But we might need to do that again sometime, you know, this year.

Teeth pain has never been my worst pain problem. Not sure why. It takes a lot to make me numb (my pain medication tolerance is a good 30 odd years old), but when I gave up on being numb I sat through a few fillings. However, I've never had much long term dental pain, and I think that's an important component of headaches--you can't see out of them (well, I can't). Whereas a filling has boundaries--if I needed a root canal and didn't even have a dentist's appointment yet, that psychological component would be back in play.

Watching loved ones in pain and the helplessness associated is horrible

I sent my mother a random "thank dog you don't have cancer anymore!" email yesterday because I was feeling so sorry for myself. Good christ.

Whoever was in the room next to me had their first needles ever. It wasn't until the dilaudid kicked in that I started to wonder if they had been vaccinated then. They were accompanied by a pregnant woman who walked a few rooms over during the portable X-Rays and I was wondering "is that your mum? Is the bun in her oven not going to be vaccinated either?"

I love hypothesising on no evidence.

I got a Web Sheriff email today asking me to remove barefoot Rafael Verga from provocateuse. That is my first takedown request, and I still have more "put me up" requests than "take me down" but as soon as I realised it wasn't spam, boom, he's gone. I don't have a leg to stand on, so to not actually pun.

I wonder if I can tumblr him, though. Do you think rights protectors mind that, or is it probably the presence of google ads that means they need to lock rights down? I'd guess the former is exposure, the latter is siphoning.

I have a colleague here who refuses to use pain meds during dentistry. I looked at her like she said she was in the Church of Scientology. She saw the look on my face and just mentioned that she has a dentist who understands and works VERY CAREFULLY in her mouth.

I'm sorry, but give me fucking pain meds. I would take pain meds for annual gyno exam if they offered. But dentistry? Oh hell yes.

I got a Web Sheriff email today asking me to remove barefoot Rafael Verga from provocateuse. That is my first takedown request, and I still have more "put me up" requests than "take me down" but as soon as I realised it wasn't spam, boom, he's gone. I don't have a leg to stand on, so to not actually pun.

Is he still modeling? I haven't seen anything new featuring him in a long time. (A shame, he may have been the hottest male model out there in the 2000s.)

I have a colleague here who refuses to use pain meds during dentistry.

My experience convinced me to go the opposite route. If I ever need to have more oral surgery comparable to the quadruple wisdom tooth removal, I want them to put me under so deep that I see that kid who was stalking Kiefer Sutherland in Flatliners.

For a while, I thought labor was the worst. But really bad tooth pain definitely is my "can't deal" level of pain.

Nothing trumps my back pain in my own pain calibration. I hit a 10 at least twice (literally screaming and sobbing in the ER, being told by a nurse to "quiet down"; I would have punched her if I had been mobile), and prior to the surgery it was basically an 8-9 full time.

However, yeah, bad dental pain is fucking evil. My cracked tooth that was eventually pulled -- that pain was a damn 9, but only for 10-15 minutes at a time, and then it would settle down to a 2 or 3. It was weird.

If I ever need to have more oral surgery comparable to the quadruple wisdom tooth removal, I want them to put me under so deep that I see that kid who was stalking Kiefer Sutherland in Flatliners.

this has cracked my shit up and down and all the way around.

Oh, ita !, it's so inadequate, but I'm sorry you have to deal with this.

My tattoos were probably the worst physcial pain I've gone through lately--on my sides, partially on my ribs, and both done the same day--and I'd put that as a 6ish. I once had a sunburn that was a 7, but that was almost 15 years ago. Let's not talk about emotional pain; I can even quantify how much it hurt when Rob died.

le n, I never take Novocaine for basic fillings. If there's anything more advanced, my dentist and I will discuss, but nothing for a cleaning and fillings. Hate the needle more than the discomfort.

that is straight baller, no Novocaine. A friend of mine in college had an emergency tooth pulling and she couldn't afford the pain meds. So the dentist did it with just a topical. As a result of her stress and fear over the pain, she seized her neck up during the procedure and had horrific migraine and neck pain until she could take muscle relaxers to get the knots out of her muscles. It took her like 1-2 weeks to get the muscles to properly unclench.

Tooth pain! Yeah, I think the worst was definitely the infected/dead tooth that made my face swell and led to the oral surgeon going "oh honey no" and putting me on Percocet for an entire week before they could schedule me for oral surgery.