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It has never hurt. It hurt a bit when they were scrubbing it, but more some burning of the torn skin, not the wound itself. It did not hurt initially, it did not hurt shortly after, it has not hurt since. The nerves are fine, I guess. I can move my fingers and thumb well. I have simply felt no pain from it. And it is quite a rip. I often do not feel pain though, I think. I have some small belief that I am usually in a great deal of physical pain, running from moderate to high, but I simply have no sense of it.
Painkillers usually do nothing for me, except in a few rare and rather extreme situations. Well, except exacerbate my exhaustion. I wonder if the unfelt pain is part of why I am always tired? Yes, that is probably a part of it. Oh well, perhaps someday medicine or science will understand these things. They certainly do not at this time.
Well, good night.
My experience with really clean cuts is that the don't hurt much, at least not at first. Once the healing gets going in earnest, sometimes they throb.
ReplyDeleteI cut the skin off my index finger knuckle in a 1/2" diameter patch once, and I don't recall it hurting much at all. This was over twenty years ago and there's still a knob of scar tissue where the skin went missing clear down through. This was a really clean, smooth cut. Ragged, rough cuts always hurt worse, and abrasions and burns always hurt far worse than the actual damage would seem to warrant.
Any word re: your house purchase?
Hope that heals soon.
ReplyDeleteD.C.,
ReplyDeleteThere has been no pain and it was Saturday that I did this. If it were a mere cut, sure, maybe. But the wound channel was traumatized by the impact. It cut right to the bone, though luckily did not chip it. And the wound channel... how to put it... exploded open. It was a lot like being shot.
MK,
It is well and truly on the mend. I would bet a 10 spot I could take out the stitches now. I won't, but I think I could without too much trouble. I heal incredibly well. As I have said, I was made to be damaged.