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Semagic is acting weird. Not only is it giving me birthday warnings for people who are no longuer on my flist, but now it's giving them for people who were never on it. As far as I can see, the only thing I have in common with a certian odrade is that he or she's on graymm's flist. O_o
Anyway, a belated happy birthday to atpolittlebit ♥
So my scar-thing on the right from the surgery sort of infected itself, swelled and hurts a little bit like hell. Seen the doctor and he gave me antibiotics and stuff to deal with it so no worry, and i'll spare you the messy details. Anti-pain pills are love, it's a fact that should be said more often.
This gets me thinking, we seldom see in fics or books a good acurate description of physical pain and what it does to the mind. The full scale of the "FUCK IT HURTS MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP" part. As if pain couldn't very well break people. Doesn't even need to be big, just lengthy. Characters tend to endure torture and fear with little more than gritting their teeth and then rushing to the comfort part. Funny compared to all the fics exploring the intricacies of emotionnal anguish.
There are exceptions. More often than not I think they're fics that deal with a slow recovery, or the reality of being crippled.
I guess that's the worst part of pain, the way it robs you of the control of your body. When it's continuous and immobilizing and fucking impossible to ignore. Otherwise, pain is just pain, information, and it's not like the human body hasn't been made to endure a great deal of it. It's also something that years after years people learn to live with. A terrible fact of its own.
Sorry, I'll stop the gloomy topic now.
Anyway, a belated happy birthday to atpolittlebit ♥
So my scar-thing on the right from the surgery sort of infected itself, swelled and hurts a little bit like hell. Seen the doctor and he gave me antibiotics and stuff to deal with it so no worry, and i'll spare you the messy details. Anti-pain pills are love, it's a fact that should be said more often.
This gets me thinking, we seldom see in fics or books a good acurate description of physical pain and what it does to the mind. The full scale of the "FUCK IT HURTS MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP" part. As if pain couldn't very well break people. Doesn't even need to be big, just lengthy. Characters tend to endure torture and fear with little more than gritting their teeth and then rushing to the comfort part. Funny compared to all the fics exploring the intricacies of emotionnal anguish.
There are exceptions. More often than not I think they're fics that deal with a slow recovery, or the reality of being crippled.
I guess that's the worst part of pain, the way it robs you of the control of your body. When it's continuous and immobilizing and fucking impossible to ignore. Otherwise, pain is just pain, information, and it's not like the human body hasn't been made to endure a great deal of it. It's also something that years after years people learn to live with. A terrible fact of its own.
Sorry, I'll stop the gloomy topic now.