We can get our bodies weighed, a formulated number for our BMI, blood pressure, pulse rate, respiration rate, but no way to give an accurate number to our level of pain.
Oh sure, doctors have the smiley to sad face range form that they hold up and ask you to rate your pain but seriously what good does that do? Of course, the chart has been all but replaced with a new method of determining your pain.
On a scale of 1 to 10 rate this compared to the worst pain you’ve ever had.
Are you fucking kidding me right now? I always piss them off with my answer, which only seems fair since they piss me off with such an asinine question.
Oh, let’s see now. I shoved a 9 lb 21-inch cannonball out of my vagina. I was car #3 in a 5 car accident. I was so sick once that I had 4 “procedures” without anesthesia (fever was too high), so I’d have to say in this case, a one.
Don’t ask me to compare this pain with previous pains. What Einstein came up with that idea, anyway? And then thought it was a good idea, no less. “Pain is subjective.” No shit Sherlock. How much did you rack up in student loan debt to be handed that nugget?
I chose the image that I did because that’s exactly how my body felt when I first woke up this morning. I’ve been up for 2 1/2 hours now and it isn’t getting any…
