Pain- what has been your worst?

[olelion]

I lost my wife to cancer 4,698 days ago. I could count the good days I've had since then on my fingers. I feel like I live in a kind of purgatory.
As for physical pain.....I had sciatica for almost 6 months......started right after I got home from the Rose Bowl. Mornings were pure hell.

Yes. Emotional pain with losing our daughter. On a good day I can be reasonably content, but never happy.
This,
".....even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, despite our despair, and against our will, comes wisdom". Aeschylus

I'm not sure if I've found that wisdom

 

[razpsu]

“Mary Ellen moffett she Broke my heart”

 

[Bvillebaron]

mine- kidney stone

I'd rather get a needle in the eye- and yes, I've had several of those

Two root canals when I was 17 performed by a Nesndratgsl without novacaine. Nothing else came close.

 

[marshall23]

Yes. Emotional pain with losing our daughter. On a good day I can be reasonably content, but never happy.
This,
".....even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, despite our despair, and against our will, comes wisdom". Aeschylus

I'm not sure if I've found that wisdom

"This hole in my heart is in the shape of you.....no one else can fit it......why would I want them to?"

"Our song" was Colour my World by Chicago.......the ironic thing is that my world is now black, grey and white.

 

[marshall23]

Yes. Emotional pain with losing our daughter. On a good day I can be reasonably content, but never happy.
This,
".....even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, despite our despair, and against our will, comes wisdom". Aeschylus

I'm not sure if I've found that wisdom

I am so sorry for your loss.

 

[Fac]

Had hammer toe surgery in New Orleans 3 months after Hurricane Katrina. Staff at hospital was short due to many people being displaced from the flooding. Suffered throughout the night with throbbing pain in my foot. Called the nurses for additional pain medication but they never showed. Called again later in the night but they never showed. Doctor's assistant came to see me in the morning and I told him of my night. He said he couldn't understand my pain level being high as he said I had a morphine drip and as he said that his eyes turned to where the morphine drip was supposed to be but it wasn't there. His mouth dropped to the floor. I told him that I wanted released immediately.

I have been told by a hand full of doctors over the years that I should be in pain for some of my issues but always answered that it was always just an annoying minor pain nothing great. Had both hips and 1 knee replaced over the years. However, the pain that night from the toe surgery was incredible. Constant throbbing.

 

[EricStratton-RushChairman]

Multiple compound fracture of left forearm (air bag) which led to compartment syndrome on left arm (1998). I do not think there is a worse pain possible in an awake person than compartment syndrome. They had to filet my arm open and leave it open for a week (procedure called a fasciotomy). Look it up, ain't pretty. Then had skin graph to close wound. In total I had 6 surgeries to stabilize the arm. Still can't straighten out my left thumb, which wreaks havoc with my putting game

 

[HarrisburgDave]

There are things that each of us have experienced that come with life, yet so awful you wonder how you can survive. Maybe with age you come to realize you just have to do it.

Eventually we all have to experience these things. Making the final decision for a parent, being the one to find a loved one who has passed on, dealing with terminal illnesses, or the suffering of your child, are all going to come to you.

I have come to understand these terrible things just give us an opportunity to appreciate how wonderful a normal day with no special happenings is.

 

[manatree]

Almost a year ago to the day, I got shingles. Up one leg, across the butt, stomach, lower back, and side. Not fun. The pain would rotate between throbbing, burning, and stabbing, often all three at the same time. And the kicker was that the shingles led to pneumonia and I ended up in the hospital for a week.

 

[Dragons 62]

I was chopping wood for my mom before school when I was 15. Got done and started feeling a pain in my nut sack and lower abdomen. 10 minutes later I was throwing up because I was in so much pain. Rushed to the hospital….had a testicular torsion …meaning your nut twisted in your sac and strangulated. Got there and had to go through mental pain before surgery with a nurse that was the spitting image of Beula Ballbuster, the gym teacher from Porky’s, shaving my nuts, sack, and from my thighs to my navel. Saved my left nut though. Second was post surgery on my T3-4 vertebrae. Wanted to shoot myself for about 10 days afterwards. Great stories…lots of laughs. Which….when you see another guy get hit in the nads…..the 1st thing you do is breath in and go arghhh…..2nd thing ya do is start laughing because it wasn’t you

 

[laKavosiey-st lion]

This spring I was up on a 6 foot ladder gassing up the boat on the trailer in my driveway. The funnel started to fail so I changed position, pressed against the boat and the ladder FLEW out from under me smashing my wife’s car (big dent and shattered rear light) I fell so fast and swear my ankle shattered. Got covered in gas for good measure. Our health insurance ain’t awesome so I iced her up and drank bourbon for 5 days.

 

[manatree]

…lots of laughs. Which….when you see another guy get hit in the nads…..the 1st thing you do is breath in and go arghhh…..2nd thing ya do is start laughing because it wasn’t you

 

[PS7680]

Great news Dave! I lost my right kidney to kidney cancer. Drove myself to the ER, I was in excruciating pain. In fact, worst pain in my life. Removed the kidney that night. Extreme pain for about a month. It’s been 21 years now for me and cancer free.

My other kidney shutdown and I just received a kidney transplant last year. So thankful!

So happy that you guys have done so well with kidney cancer! My dad (PSU All-American soccer player and baseball player, great golfer……never smoke or drank, stayed in great shape) succumbed to kidney cancer at age 77. It was approx 18 months after diagnosis. Of all the people that reach 100, we were sure that he would be one of them.
Continued good health to you both!

 

[NittanyBuff]

mine- kidney stone

I'd rather get a needle in the eye- and yes, I've had several of those

Broken leg and torn ACL