What is the greatest amount of physical pain you have ever endured?
Anyone who knows me knows that I'm fairly accident prone, in fact it is very rare that I don't have a bruise somewhere on my body, most likely from running into something. I've been this way since I was a little kid, not to mention that when I was younger I was pretty fearless (or reckless) and did a lot of dumb shit and would often end up with some bruises or most likely a sprain or some stitches. Surprisingly I've only broken bones a few times. The first time was my forearm, the second was my ring finger and the third time was some fractured ribs. Pretty amazing that I didn't break more but believe me I'm not complaining! Now for the greatest amount of physical pain I've ever endured...I'd have to say me breaking my ring finger. Sound funny that a small finger could be the worst out of all the shit I've done, but here's why. That pain was not only pretty severe at the time, but it also lasted a while because I eventually needed surgery on it, after it healed. So here is what happened. When I was about 14 I was skateboarding at my grandparent's house with some friends. Now I was never a great skateboarder, but I could hold my own. So here I am on a ramp, and I just lost it for some reason and fell forward, and as I landed my hand was sideways and my forward momentum caused my hand to kind of roll under my body. I immediately felt this really sharp pain in my hand and when I looked down my ring finger was pointing almost 90 degrees toward my thumb. It was literally sideways at the knuckle. I go running inside and my grandpa, who I need to add is NOT a doctor, thinks my finger is just dislocated, so he attempts to "pop it" back into place...bad idea. So after he did that a couple times without fixing it we decide it's time for the ER so real doctors can fix it.
So after a quick trip to the hospital and some x-rays the doctors tell me its broken (no shit right?) and because I broke it so far down they would need to call in a specialist, who couldn't be there until the morning. So all they do is wrap my whole hand and cast it, as is, to protect it until the morning. They give some pain killers and send me home.
The next morning I go back to the hospital where they remove the cast and the doctor comes in. Now this doctor looked like he was about 90 and had the bedside manner of a brick. He asks me to hold up my hand, which I do...then he grabs my finger and gives it a yank and twist. No pain killers, no warning, no nothing. It was about this point that I began to pass out. Now when your body is in so much pain that it literally says "fuck this, I'm going to sleep" you know that hurts! I woke u a few seconds later to the a-hole of a doctor giving the nurse instructions on how to cast it and out the door he goes.
About 6 weeks I get the cast off and I get a good look at my finger and I'm like "what the fuck" my finger is crooked! Between my knuckle and the next joint my finger has what can best be described as a bend in it, to the point where my fingertip actually overlaps my middle finger completely! Time to see a specialist. So I meet with a new doctor who tells me that he can fix it, but it would require surgery where he would cut the bone, twist it, re-position it then put two pins in it to hold it together while it heals. Ok then, surgery gets done, they cast my entire hand (why everyone put a cast on my entire hand when it was a single finger I'll never know) and about 6 weeks later they remove the cast, but I still have to have my finger splinted and taped to my middle finger for another few weeks, then after that it would be another few weeks until the pins came out. This was not fun, because there isn't a lot of flesh, muscle or whatever between the bones of your joint and the top of your skin, so every time I bumped my knuckle I could feel the pins and it would hurt like hell. Half the time it felt like the pins were going to pop through my knuckle. Not fun. And after all that my finger is still a bit crooked! Not so bad that it really interferes with anything, but enough to notice.
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