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Tuesday, September 11, 2007
4:54:00 PM EDT
Hearing King of Pain - Alanis Morressette

An Inquiry Into the Nature of Pain


So, question for you all: Which hurts more -- biting the inside of your cheek hard enough to draw blood or ramming your little toe hard into a door? Because I just did both within about five minutes of each other, and I'm really having a hard time quantifying which is worse. Any insight you can have would be helpful, so I can figure out where I hurt more. I thank you in advance.

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  • #13 Comment from lcurry8690 
    9/13/07 4:21 AM Permalink
    Toe, definitely.  But then I did ram it hard enough to break it.  It was one of those sickening pains that makes you feel faint.  Definitely worse than a toe.
  • #12 Comment from monponsett 
    9/12/07 3:07 PM Permalink
    I try to keep a good Perc buzz on all the time just to be ready for if stuff like that happens to me.
  • #11 Comment from lilybugsgrandma 
    9/12/07 1:04 PM Permalink
    The little toe hurts more but the cheek pain lasts longer. Do you want me to hit you somewhere else so you will forget the 1st two? hehe
  • #10 Comment from chasferris 
    9/12/07 1:15 AM Permalink
    Biting cheek vs stubbing toe.  Easy, the more painful is jamming the thumb so hard that the nail tears off to the quick.  Now THAT hurts.
  • #9 Comment from psychfun 
    9/11/07 11:28 PM Permalink
    Well first it depends on how bad for both. I once bit my tongue so hard I could not talk right the rest of the day. Everyone made fun of me. Had a huge welty area.

    Then I stubbed my toes in my jam box all the time. My podiatrist just loves me! Fractured a line in and a chip in my baby toe once. Chip still floating but not causing me enough pain to take it out. Then a few days after I did this a huge filled bottle of shampoo fell right on it in the shower! Then I jammed another toe & it screwed up the muscle so that the upper end of my toe is a bit flopsy now. Ha!

    Now I'll add another to the mix that I find just as bad. My 10 yr old niece still to this day is an aggressive sleeper! I hope she grows out of it eventually or she is in trouble but when she was a toddler, she'd sleep with me & sit up & then lay horizontal on your nose! I'm talking on the bridge of it & you see stars. I had her laying on my in the lazy boy once & my mom is standing by me talking to me (whisper of course) and she picked up her head & with her forehead whacked my nose & I couldn't scream or anything because I didn't want to wake her. My mom said I turned white. Then just as the pain was subsiding a bit she did it again!!!! Add birdies to the stars!

    I venture to guess though many woman who have had natural childbirth are thinking this is a rather silly question....as Carol Burnett would say the pain is like "taking your lower lip & pull it over your head!"
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