Broke my hand, and my foot... Didn't hurt at all... Weird experience
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Any plans to open a comic book shop and do evil deeds?
I'm afraid I miss the reference here.
Ah dang. The movie Unbreakable has Samuel L. Jackson as a character with similarly fragile bones who goes by Mr. Glass.
Oh, thank you. I'll look it up tonight. : )
Make sure you watch the whole trilogy. Unbreakable, Split, and Glass. The first one introduces you to the main villain and hero, Split introduces you to someone I would only classify as "chaotic evil". Glass has the main hero facing off against the chaotic evil. Not a bad little "grounded" supe trilogy.
Awesome, thanks. Now that's my week telly-wise covered. =)
Glass is one of the best origin stories for that series. I saw Split in theaters and I ended up watching Unbreakable after for context. Glass made me want it to never end. M. Night Shyamalan never disappoints.
It's to a movie, where one of the characters has brittle bones and owns a comic book store. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unbreakable_(film)
Thank you, now I need to watch that movie tonight, I guess. ^^
Won't breaking bones increase the chance of an embolism occurring?
Probably, but I'm not a doctor.
Depends on the bone
Have you ever had anything you would characterize as a 10? Or even something like 8?
I did, actually. I once got severely ill, living abroad in a country with severely shitty healthcare. Got rushed to the ER, a friend was with me. I just kept on screaming, no one looking after me. The ER over there was more like a warzone. Friend decided he had it with them, told them all to fuck off, gave them the finger, hurled me over his shoulder and carried me two streets across to a private hospital. He put me on his insurance policy. They gave me a hell lot of morphine, but apparently I'm either immune to that or at least highly resistant. They had to call in their pain specialist in the middle of the night and he got it done pain wise.
Jesus Christ what ended up being wrong with you?
Viral infection and sort of shitty immune system to battle it.
Sounds like you've damaged the nerves surrounding your bones with all the breaking. With all that damage, you probably can't feel pain much when they break.
By chance, have you ever gotten a decent cut or burn before (or sting or similar) and did that hurt more than breaking a bone?
I had a severe burn on my right lower arm. Immediately took care of it in terms of first aid and I did feel some sort of pain, but it was more stingy than anything else, maybe a 1 or 2 tops.
Not really. I do feel something is off, but I can nap.
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What country are you in?
A hospital proactively checking your history for trends and asking you to come in for a checkup when a concerning trend is identified is not a thing that happens where I am.
Germany right now.
Hmm show us some x-rays.
I just got out of a five-week hospital stay and I think giving the conservative estimate for your pain rankings is pretty helpful in being taken seriously when your pain actually gets bad.
Some of the roommates I got over that time were absurd. "What's your pain level at now?" "It's worse than earlier, it's at a 10." "A 10 is the worst pain you can imagine. You said your pain was at a 10 last time we talked." "Oh yeah, I mean it's got to be at a 10.5 or something now." Guy is clearly comfy sitting up in bed eating a meal.
There was one point where I was in so much pain and I gave a 9 which I think was accurate, and I suspect they may have taken more time to attend to me if I hadn't been trying to give genuine answers for my pain rankings through the previous couple weeks I had been there.