(March 9, 2019 at 1:23 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: Most of the major incidents have been forgotten. The thing which does get to me, is that after having my fingers amputated, every time I bump the end of my hand against something, it hurts amazingly intensely. Stepping on a Lego intense. And that kind of thing happens all the time, as I fumble to manage things without fingers, missjudge the distance, or just plain clumsily bump my hand against something. I once had a chat with a fellow who had the tendons in his wrist operated upon without any appreciable deadening of the pain from anesthesia, and he wondered how I managed the pain of the frostbite. There was no pain at all. I was unconscious when it happened, thanks to sleeping pills, and when I woke up later I was on a morphine drip. There was still pain in spite of the drip and whatever else they fed me, but I don't remember it well. The only thing that got to me during that time was a nurse who refused to help me with my pillow because she thought that I shouldn't be "indulged," and instead of helping me get comfortable, ignored me and spent an hour or so bullshitting with a colleague in the doorway. Total bitch.
I had a similar reaction when I got blown up. The shockwave knocked me out, so there was no pain - just a feeling of intense pressure, then waking up in hospital. By the time they took me off of the Pain-Go-Bye-Bye juices a week later, everything was down to a dull ache, not intense pain. From there on I was able to manage with paracetamol and low-dose codeine.
Boru
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