and drinking whisky and shooting each other!





Jim

 

OK, back on track.

Uh, I had gout. Couldn't walk straight for 2 weeks.

Snowboarding accident first time out, miscalculated a jump, landed on my left hip. Couldn't move from a lying flat on my back position without rolling over onto my stomach first for months. Have flareups every now and then.

Broke a finger at work. Broke some wrist bones in high school PE class.

Had a barium enema earlier this year. (Still 2006 here) A literal pain in the bee hind. Never again.

 

Yeah, the good ole days, when a man was a man, and not a man's man.

 

this threads kinda getting depressing! Sounds like we've been through a war!


Jim

 

Can't have that, thread closed to any more pain postings!

 

actually though compared to some of the injuries I feel like a rookie! Plan on staying a Rookie too!




Jim

 

First horseback ride was a six hour trail ride. Couldn't touch my buttcheeks together for three days! Laid on my back like a drunk frog. Revenge was drawn-out and sweet!

 

Ridin the 2 wheeler at the practice track, found some bad **** mud that stopped the bike dead.... I stopped with my shoulder in the nearest tree...

Had a friend crank me in the jewels with a sledge "accidentally" in a full swing...

AND the ever so fun... Shut the car door on my thumb and had it latch.

 

GOUT. NO exceptions there - nothing is like that.

My reasoning is this:

You can break a bone, pass a gall stone, have a child (if female) and it is DONE.

For most injuries - once you realise it is there, the function of the pain receptors is over. They sent a message: "HEY! We have a PROBLEM HERE!" and once you identify the injured area and protect it - it begins to heal.

Cool, fine! The purpose of the pain signal has been served, and it will only nag you again if you are neglectful. Many injuries if they are severe enough just go NUMB.

NONE of the above applies to gout.

Imagine that you just got your toe smashed by a truck tire or a sledge hammer. It's broken for sure...

The pain spikes all the way that it can! And then it goes numb. You prevent further injury, render it immobile so it can heal, and it does heal. because it is healing - the pain receptors leave you in peace.

GOUT is as if the very same injury continued to hurt every bit as bad as it could possibly hurt. IT STAYS LIKE THAT, sometimes for a week or more. Like the instant of impact is prolonged unnaturally...

It can break down your mind.

GOUT isn't simple pain - it is torture.

I have a wider knowlege of pain and anti inflammatory meds than I used to because of it.

This from a man who has ridden a bicycle off of a forty foot high cliff. Rode another bike into a head-on with a Galaxie 500, wrecked one bike at thirty plus MPH because a manhole lid was ajar and I ran over it - they had to take out part of one kidney because of it (old fashioned handlebars. The end of one got rammed up under my ribs). And walked home with my left eyelid near slit wide open and a concussion from a fight I got in.

I know what pain is.

GOUT tops it all....

 

Can you say Planar Faciitis, one of the worst pains ever experienced.

Plantar fasciitis (pronounced PLAN-tar fashee-EYE-tiss) is an inflammation of the plantar fascia. "Plantar" means the bottom of the foot, "fascia" is a type of connective tissue, and "itis" means "inflammation".

When one of your wheels is out of balance, then it makes for a miserable travel day.

 

besides the broken neck in 82,
4 motorcycle wrecks,( yea i know, most people learn after 1)
kidney stones,
broken foot,
crushed left hand bones from wrist down,
torn rotator cuffs,
ruptured eardrums,
run over by a mack truck,
wedged between 2 cars breaking both legs,
stopping a truck fan with my hand, slicing it 3 inches down between the fingers,
being shot by a pistol,
and being shot by a shotgun,
without a doubt the worst pain i have ever been through was reading all these posts.

 

May 4, 1992, gas tank lit while I was draining it.... 21 days in the burn unit... 40% of my body burned, legs required skin grafts... that one sucked too, and yes, lots of pain.... I can't imagine these people that are burned to death, that may actually top my back surgery pain. My recurring pain from the surgery and nerve damage prior to the surgery has to be taken without meds, as they make me more miserable than the pain...

 

Having been in the fire service for a number of years, I know the pain you are speaking about.

 

Tom your a veteran of pain. I have to ask the question, being your from New Jersey, did Guido's boys shoot you?

You left out child birth. Don't you have kids?

 

no, guido had nothing to do with it. my brother, both times. with the pistol at 12 on the shooting range. thought it was empty. and the scattergun at 19 in the woods while hunting. he was tracking a rabbit and did not see me till after he pulled the triger.