Post #2515673
2026-05-11 04:05 UTC
@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.
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@geoffl@mastodon.me.uk 2026-05-11 04:15
@aredridel@kolektiva.social In the case of the person i mentioned with a high pain threshold I'm sure it later lead to their premature death in hospital after a accident. The doctors didn't treat their injuries and deterioration seriously because they weren't in pain. They probably would have classified walking on a broken ankle at 3. I worked with then for many years and saw them shake off hits, that would have crumpled me into a ball, without a second thought.