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I gots stories.
Worst pain? Probably the first time I almost died. I formed an abcess in and around my liver, which went undetected and therefore untreated for I don't even know how long. By the time the doctors figured out I wasn't just suffering from a stomache flu, I was running a fever of 104 or so and completely delirious. One emergency trip to the city hospital and one CT scan later, and the truth of the situation was discovered. It was decided that I needed to have these things drained immediately, or else risk.. well, death. I was wheeled into an OR, given a shot to freeze the skin, and in went the drains. They gave me a shot of some sedative to calm me down, but it did nothing to dull the pain of having two wires driven through my abdominal wall and into my liver.
There's been others, but nothing before or since has compared to that. People wonder how I can handle chronic pain as stoically as I do; go through something like that and everything else seems like child's play by comparison.
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I wake up in the morning more tired than before I slept
I get through cryin' and I'm sadder than before I wept
I get through thinkin' now, and the thoughts have left my head
I get through speakin' and I can't remember, not a word that I said
- Ben Harper, Show Me A Little Shame
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