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In reply to the discussion: I've been diagnosed with stage four terminal cancer [View all]SonofDonald
(2,050 posts)I blew out my left knee in 1981 by dropping a motorcycle on it in Alaska but did not get it surgically repaired until 1994,and then had it replaced finally in 2016, I just dealt with it
I was a Bering Crab and Trawl fisherman from 1981-1992 and that beats the hell out of you, but youre young and it doesnt hurt so much at that age
I was stabbed by a meth addict in 1996, I walked into a bar to get a glass of water, walked back outside and got stabbed by a 6 inch blade, I never said a word to him or him to me
Open chest surgery, he nicked my spleen and my pericardial sac, I died in the medical flight from port orchard to Seattle washington but they brought me back
Shattered my right leg at the Boot Top Fracture rib and fib area at a job site in mason county Wa putting up a building at the airport
Smashed a whole bunch of fingers over the years including cutting the last half inch of my left hand ring finger off out in the Bering in 1984
Probably forgot about other serious injurys along the way
Its not so much that I have a high pain tolerance but that Im always in pain
And that isnt fun
I miss being normal and pain free, they are bringing palliative care in here later this afternoon
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