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Post by Lori on Nov 27, 2003 0:14:36 GMT
What's the worst physical pain you can remember ever experiening? - - - - When I was about 10, me and my family and some of my friends went to the cumbrian mountains in the lake district. We planned to get to the top but it was getting to cloudy so we had to turn back half way. My friends were all ahead of me so I tried to quicken my pace. I went to fast for myself to cope with and my weight got thrown forwards so I ended up running down the mountain unable to stop until nearer the bottom I tripped on a rock and I was just in so much pain everywhere andn screamed the place down. I split the back of my ear, gashed my hip open and couldn't walk. Was in hospital for a few days then on crutches but they never found out what was wrong with me, something to do with my hip. Mind you, they did have guinea pigs in the childrens ward, hehe
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Post by Neo Stella on Nov 28, 2003 11:03:25 GMT
Without doubt the most painful experience I have had was an ingrowing toenail suffered whilst serving as an apprentice professional footballer. If it wasn't painful enough when I kicked the ball, the physiotherapist cut it out without giving me any kind of pain killing injection. He just stuck a piece of leather in my mouth to bite on so I could endure what to me is how I would imagine hell to be!
I can't imagine this kind of "medieval" treatment being acceptable today. It did teach me that the experience of pain can be controlled.
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pullofthebush
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Post by pullofthebush on Nov 28, 2003 19:40:22 GMT
I can't say I have experienced anything quite as bad as that, but once someone flicked loads of cigarette ash on my bare foot; it was on there for ages and it hurt
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Post by Xanadu on Nov 28, 2003 20:11:39 GMT
Alright, this is interesting... Lori, your accident seems pretty terrifying for a little girl. Did you ever have any more trouble with your hip? Those injuries certainly seem painful. I have never really done any serious damage, or been in an accident, so I am thankful for that. I have had so many injuries and scars from when I was a child, but life has a way of not really letting you remember how terrible the pain was, I guess. This may be the worst pain I have ever felt, I certainly know I was paralyzed with fear for a moment thinking about the damage I had probably done. I'll post this one since it is sort of unusual. A while ago I tripped over something in my garage, and tried hopelessly to break my fall with my hands. Unfortunately, I still hit the hard cement floor SMACK! down on the left side of my face. The pain was so intense and I was afraid to open my eyes, even move, since I thought I certainly broke my jaw and my cheekbone, and probably a tooth or two. Well, it seems I only fractured my cheekbone, and there is really very little a doctor can do to repair that, unless you have surgery if the cheekbone is depressed. Mine was not and has since healed. However, it is always tight when I smile or laugh and there is some scar tissue. The irony is that I now have a dimple high on my left cheek where there was none before! Most everyone likes it and thinks it's cute. I'm not quite sure how I feel about it. But, does anyone see why I think this is ironic?
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Post by strabley on Nov 29, 2003 1:27:41 GMT
I don't mean to upstage your dimple story Xanadu, but check this one out! It was in 1995. I was moving out of my parents house and had to move all my stuff down a narrow wooden spiral staircase. I lost my footing on the first step and me and my stereo receiver flew through the CLOSED door at the bottom of the stairs. This happened at 2 am so no one was there to help. I laid there crying unable to move for 2 hours and finally forced myself to crawl upstairs and lay in bed. I couldn't walk for a week and couldn't run for about 6 months. My whole left butt cheek was dark purple. I never went to the doctor about it (what were they gonna do--put it in a sling? )to this day my left cheek has a giant "smiley' dent that stretches all the way across! I guess I tore the muscle in half? I'm not sure. It still hurts if I run too fast. And that hole in the door at my parent's house is still there.
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Post by Xanadu on Nov 29, 2003 2:06:19 GMT
I don't mean to upstage your dimple story Xanadu, We're not trying to out do one another, are we? 'Cause, I certainly wouldn't have wanted to fall down a spiral staircase! So, now we both have dimples on our left "cheeks" "Put it in a sling"... that's pretty good! ;D ;D
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Post by strabley on Nov 29, 2003 9:07:16 GMT
Oh no! I wasn't trying to outdo anyone. Xan, I was just thinking that you and I have very weird things in common and the left cheek dimple thing is just way too ironic. Funny even, but the weird kind of funny. Everyone express real pain and all of it is equally as unfortunate. I was just trying to be funny is all, trying to laugh at my pain...
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Post by Al Truest on Nov 29, 2003 17:49:07 GMT
I'm sorry you guys, but you've got this thread to yourself. I can actually feel pain, by reading about someone else suffering. I can do the same with pleasure. So whenever possible, I spread pleasure.
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Post by Xanadu on Nov 29, 2003 18:29:36 GMT
Oh no! I wasn't trying to outdo anyone. Xan, I was just thinking that you and I have very weird things in common and the left cheek dimple thing is just way too ironic. Funny even, but the weird kind of funny. Everyone express real pain and all of it is equally as unfortunate. I was just trying to be funny is all, trying to laugh at my pain... I was just being snide! It is too ironic. It is a good thing that you didn't do any serious damage that required therapy. So much for those thong bikinis though, hmm? Just joking! Hey Shelia, do you think there's anything funny about my suddenly having a deep dimple on my left cheek? It's just sort of a weird coincidence when I noticed this myself... ;D And Al, this isn't bothering you, is it? We're just trying to keep some traffic up here, and sharing "old war wounds" is just all for some storytelling. We would never laugh about anything painful that happened to any of us, just make light of the exteme and bizarre circumstances.
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Post by strabley on Nov 29, 2003 23:48:43 GMT
I wouldn't say its necessarily funny to suddenly have a dimple, but I do try to laugh at my scars. One of the beat poets, I wanna say it was Gregory Corso, said you don't get your face until you're 50. Smile lines , sudden dimples, or stitches or broken noses or whatever may be the case just add to make us uniquely ourselves. And Zan, if people think your dimple is cute, well then maybe that is a bit funny. Not laugh out loud funny, but one of those odd little life things. And thong bikinis were out the of question years before my scar! ;D
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Post by Xanadu on Nov 30, 2003 2:01:56 GMT
I wouldn't say its necessarily funny to suddenly have a dimple, but I do try to laugh at my scars. And Zan, if people think your dimple is cute, well then maybe that is a bit funny. Not laugh out loud funny, but one of those odd little life things. The funny part (not exactly laughing "funny", but weird "funny") is that I fell right about the time I was discovering Kate, and now I have a dimple like she does! You can only see mine when I smile wide, like when you can see her's. Bizarre, hmm? And thong bikinis were out the of question years before my scar! ;D Personally, I think they probably should be outlawed myself! ;D ;D
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Post by Lori on Nov 30, 2003 15:05:00 GMT
Lori, your accident seems pretty terrifying for a little girl. Did you ever have any more trouble with your hip? No, no trouble at all, just a tinsy little scar marks that day Hey Xan! I'd never noticed any dimple on Kate, but I've just been flicking through some pictures and there seems to be something near the top of her left cheek that appears in a few pictures and maybe could pass for a dimple... is that the one you're referring to?? Shiela, I'm terrible for things like that, it could be in a thriller film something but I think if it were me I would've thought I was gonna die or something with there being no-one there... I guess I do tend to over-react, hehe Were you not really scared though?
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Post by strabley on Dec 1, 2003 9:26:36 GMT
I dont remember being scared. I just remember trying to work up the energy to move. I felt confident I could do it eventually...
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Post by Xanadu on Dec 2, 2003 21:04:44 GMT
That took a lot of strength to take care of yourself Sheila. When I fell, thankfully I wasn't alone! And it's a goog thing, Lori, you didn't have any trouble, otherwise that may have affected your dancing career! Here's some other links to photos of Kate, just to show her dimple. She rarely smiles wide in official photos (maybe she doesn't like her's really either) but you can always catch it in a candid or TV interview! I think it's very cute on her, maybe I'll come to like mine more someday. gaffa.org/wow/k47.jpggaffa.org/wow/k94.jpggaffa.org/wow/k335.jpggaffa.org/wow/k313.jpggaffa.org/wow/k365.jpgThe best photo isn't here, and I have it somewhere in my archive... it's of her and Del close-up, all smiles from the mid-80's. Maybe you can find that one, they're really very adorable.
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Post by Lori on Dec 2, 2003 21:27:03 GMT
Ah, yeah Xan. It's the same one I spotted when you mentioned she had one. It's not very often people have them there. They're usually closer to the mouth, as is mine
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