Post #2515629
2026-05-10 22:29 UTC
@aredridel@kolektiva.social @cassey@ottawa.place
I like this scale … and I’m a very literal person and know I need to adapt. I once had bad kidney stones, drove myself to the ER and it provably was an 8. Maybe a large bad burn once might have been a 9.
Many years ago I broke my two front teeth and my parents took me to an emergency dentist.
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@stepheneb@ruby.social 2026-05-10 22:31
@aredridel@kolektiva.social @cassey@ottawa.place After inspecting my teeth, without any anesthesia, and without telling me he pulled the dangling nerve roots out. That was orders of magnitude more painful than anything I’ve ever experienced. It took me much longer it should have for my very literal self to realize that it didn’t represent a “10” — that truly it was off the scale! Realizing the scale is for communicating to medical folks helped. 2/2