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You are really not going to believe this. I fell AGAIN this past Saturday while crossing the street. I landed on my left side and my head hit the corner of the curb so I have a huge bruise on the side of my skull just above my ear that is between four and five inches long and I experience a sharp pain in the teeth in my upper jaw any time I think I will chew something. My broken left wing is astonishingly (breathtakingly!) painful and might possibly be re-injured and my ribs hurt so terribly that I can barely move or breathe.

According to the statistics, most people spend more money in the last 12 months of their lives on medical expenses, so this makes me wonder if I am getting ready to die soon since I've earned more medical bills in the past 16 months than I have during my entire previous life combined.

Anyway, when you read this, I will have finally moved my aching and broken body out of my apartment to the hospital where the docs will no doubt perform more x-rays and may perhaps give me some codeine-containing meds to help reduce the pain. Well, wish me luck with the meds, anyway.

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Pain is an extremely difficult subject to study, because individuals experience pain differently -- some people have a much greater tolerance for pain than others, and some people just seem to complain more.
HOW do you react when you see somebody else in pain? Most of us can empathize with someone who has been injured or is sick - we can quite easily put ourselves "in their shoes" and understand, to some extent, what they are feeling.
In November 2007, I had a longish article in Best Life Magazine on the psychology of chronic back pain.
I've got a new article on the psychology of back pain in the February issue of Best Life (the one with Jeff Gordon on the cover):

Ouch ouch ouch. I'm wincing in sympathy.

I guess the full 1200 word explanation of your injuries will have to wait a bit.

Hopefully the damage isn't too bad.

Yikes (and multiple very bad words...) I hope for fast healing for you, and for the kind of diagnoses of your injuries that keeps things in the "minor" injuries category.
Blessings.

Oh my gosh - take care of yourself! I hope these injuries are minor and short-lived. Get better soon!

By nolabirder (not verified) on 07 Apr 2008 #permalink

Oh no! That sounds really painful. I'm amazed that you even had the strength to type out what happened. I wish you a speedy (and hopefully painless) recovery.

=====OUCHNESS!!!!!===== Just reading this much hurts! Take care..........

By themadlolscientist (not verified) on 07 Apr 2008 #permalink