I've been thinking about pain lately. Not emotional pain. Not, damn I stubbed my toe pain. But the agonizing compound fracture type of pain. I find that level of pain not only useless overkill but piss poor engineering on someone's part.
Yes yes, I know, pain is an important part of the bodies function to protect itself. Lay your hand on the stove burner, yep that hurts and if you are smart you jerk your hand away. Cut your finger with a knife, sure enough that hurts too go get a band aid. But at some point pain just becomes excessive and a waste of our body's energy.
Seriously, think about it. Mountain climber guy falls off of a cliff leaving him with one jagged edge of his tibia is sticking out the back of his calf. Now mountain climber guy can look down and assess the situation visually. "Holy crap that hurts and that bone shouldn't be doing that." But you see, he can't assess the situation visually as he is writhing in absolute complete agony. I ask what is the point in that level of pain.
In my case I know I'm in the battle of a lifetime with the Effing Evil Empire. Lately the E³ has been on the march and the battle rages in my various bone metastasis. These battles are painful. No not painful, at times they are take your breath away, whimper like a babe, mewl like a kitten painful. Why? Why not tone it down by at least half. By half would at least cut out the mewling. I know I have mets. I would know if they just hurt. I don't need a direct take your breath away shot of pain to tell me something is amiss in my body when a shot across the bow would work just as well.
I appreciate the need for pain. I really do. Obviously the doctors do to or they wouldn't have this cute little chart in every room:
TEN WORST PAIN IMAGINABLE! Hell we don't need that. That's just stupid. I propose that five becomes the new ten and there is no pain over five. Anything over five is just really useless to mountain climber guy, cancer person, birthing women and anyone else with owies, boo boos, and compound fractures.
Don't even get me started on tooth aches!
Talk to you later.
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