Comments on: Pain

By: a.c.e.d.

a.c.e.d. — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 22:06:19 +0000

I’m a divorce kid, but nothing rattled my cage until I was five so I’m quite harmonic. Subsequent matters had me seek family elsewhere, excommunicate relatives, write judges, loose and gain 50% of my body weight and put thousands of airmiles behind me and past lives; but it was not until my best friend broke up with me that I felt heartache. It was sudden, much like a physical stab, and gone just as quickly. I have never been so sad in my life. We never spoke again.

But it’s the absence of pain that gets to you.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 08:56:58 +0000

You know, the pain of my severed tfcc [wrist cartilage that holds the wee bones in line w/big bones] and tearing several ligaments was one thing, but the loss of doorknob-turning, silverware-holding, lipstick-weilding, etc. abilities, without actual attention from the now-doomed-first-two-hand-surgeons, was really really scary.
Yeah.
It’s the not-knowing that kills you. Plus the annoyance where you expect sympathy and/or assistance. Stephen King style horrific, I tell you what.

By: k.

k. — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 00:41:48 +0000

i’ve been sort of dwelling on this since i read it yesterday; it’s a really interesting idea. i’d have to think and think about a way to boil my personal experience with emotional pain down to something clear and non-whiner before i shared it, but it’s made me a different person. i assume it does it to everyone, much like the “refiner’s fire.”

By: zeynep

zeynep — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 21:34:19 +0000

Hi Mig,

I never knew that emotions could cause so much physical pain until some years ago!!!
But after seeing very close friends go through real physical pain caused by cancer I don’t feel I have the right to talk about pain – all I can say is that people have an immense capacity to withstand it. Much more beyond their imagination but in doing so, they slowly loose their soul.

By: Bauke

Bauke — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:57:14 +0000

I’m supposed to be flat on my back right now. But i got bored.
Last night I strained something in my back.
Getting up hurts. Sitting hurts, standing hurts. Lying down hurts too.

Taking off my t-shirt last night nearly made me faint in pain.

By: D

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:17:47 +0000

Got a few piercing stories and suchlike to share with you. Will do so in chat/email though to avoid anyone fainting.