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Jun. 28th, 2005 12:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
furtechWhile I wait for some goop to dry, I'll toss this question to the crowd:
What is the worst pain you ever experienced?
Mine was a scratched cornea: don't let anyone tell you there are no nerves in the eye! Writhing pain, with the added nastiness that you can't really don anything but wait until it heals (4-8 hours, typically). And there is no "comfortable" position! Closing your eyes has 'em rubbing on the lid; keep them open and the pain makes tears (salty water open wound=*aieee!*).
A close second would be when I had (unknown to me at the time) a compression fracture of my foot and a helpful salesman jammed my foot into a formal shoe. A magnificent pain that had me hallucinating, blacking out and hearing opera all in the space of a split-second.
What is the worst pain you ever experienced?
Mine was a scratched cornea: don't let anyone tell you there are no nerves in the eye! Writhing pain, with the added nastiness that you can't really don anything but wait until it heals (4-8 hours, typically). And there is no "comfortable" position! Closing your eyes has 'em rubbing on the lid; keep them open and the pain makes tears (salty water open wound=*aieee!*).
A close second would be when I had (unknown to me at the time) a compression fracture of my foot and a helpful salesman jammed my foot into a formal shoe. A magnificent pain that had me hallucinating, blacking out and hearing opera all in the space of a split-second.
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Date: 2005-06-28 02:17 pm (UTC)So I went in for xrays. I was frozen in the position of the wheelchair they'd just lifted me out of. The Xray tech decides I'm just being a weenie about not spreading my legs so they can get a good shot of my hip, so forces my legs apart so hard it bangs my knees on opposite sides of teh table.
I think they heard the howl several miles away. @#$%^&* xray tech. If the person is stuick in a fetal position to pain, don't decide they're just being a pain in the ass and force them into a new one. jackass.
Close second, foot surgery with misadministered novocaine. The podiatrist shot my leg full of novocaine twice, to the pount where I couldn't feet my entire thigh. Jackass put it in the vein going AWAY from the area he was supposed to be numbing and so I got to have surgery on an ingrown toenail with effectively no anaethic in the right place, and no feeling in most of my left side...except the stupid foot.
Unsurprising that I was very reluctant to have foot surgery for a bone spur some time later. That didn't hurt. it was mostly just nasty smelling from them using a grinding wheel on the bone. Burning boon, vibrating leg... ech.
May I have no further foot problems, EVER.