Post #2515672
2026-05-11 03:59 UTC
@aredridel@kolektiva.social Even 10 seems a bit soft there, in my experience. Where are "the thought of movement terrifies me, I will deficate where I lay" and "I'm only vaguely aware of your presence. Pain is everything If death is the only way to make it stop please kill me."
On the other hand I know someone who, after coming round after major lung surgery, was repeatedly offered pain medication because they "must be in a lot of pain" and didn't need any because it was "just a little uncomfortable".
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@aredridel@kolektiva.social 2026-05-11 04:05
@geoffl@mastodon.me.uk That's the thing. That's not really a thing one needs to communicate: if you're at or past 10, there's not really more intervention to do, there's not more seriously to take it. The point is not to give numbers to all possible pain, it's to communicate for intervention.