The Un-Measurable Leveler
We can
measure length, depth, speed, intelligence, things that can be seen and things
that can only be seen through powerful microscopes. What can’t be seen cannot exist…right?
Not so with
pain or nausea. Pain is the great leveler and the un-measurable. For the
life of me I cannot imagine why, in 2016, we have nothing at all sophisticated
enough to measure pain other than the silly question of “On a scale of one to
ten…ten being the worst, what number would you give to the pain you now feel?” This
type of scoring is next to useless. The
more pain you have endured in your life, the more you can endure. Does that make it alright then to with-hold
pain medication just because you can handle pain and give a score of 5? What about the wimp who gives a score of 10
for a splinter? Does that give him the
right to adequate pain medication?
And then
there are those doctors who constantly refuse or warn you that if you take that
type of pain medication you are going to be addicted. Who the fuck cares about addiction when your
life is not worth living due to pain?
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