The pain chart...SERIOUSLY???

Ya know what??? I hate those stupid "pain charts." They should be banned for usage against (and yes I mean AGAINST!) anyone older than 10.

I went into the cold little room and the doctor asked me, "Look at the chart and tell me how you feel." So I look...

If I pick 0, then WTF am I doing at the doctor's office? Am I mental? So obviously I can't choose 0.

If I pick 10, then I'm a major wimp and then he'd send me to someone for psychiatric help...Right? And then he ads that 10, means your arm was just severed...Awww crap...10's now out.

I wouldn't come into the doctors if was only a 2 or a 4 because then the doctor would think I was too wimpy, give me Motrin and send me home with an eye-roll. Wouldn't 2 or 4 be like a splinter or stubbing your toe on the edge of the coffee table in the middle of the dark at night?

If I chose 6 or 8 then I feel stupid for waiting so long to come in for the problem, and even if I say 8, I will get in trouble for waiting so long, and at that point, he'd send me to the ER, not his clinic. I'm thinking an 8 would be more like birthing contractions...but what does HE know about that, right?

So I guess I could be a 6 for the most part, but I gave birth and ignored a ruptured appendix for 2 months afterwards...So am I usually a stronger pain tolerant person? Where's that on the chart? The backside?

At this point I have waisted almost 3 full minutes looking at the chart, thinking about why I'm even at the office, and feeling not only annoyed, but my palms started to get sweaty. And about this time I'm starting to mentally feel like a ten...Not in the hottie aspect, but more about to cry (which would be a 10) because I friggin can't pick out my pain on this stupid scale!!!

Anyway... I think from now I'm just going to say I'm a 10 and cut to the middle man. Or maybe I'll just pick 10, and then tell him I'm going to alternate between 1 and 10 each time I visit.

Anyone want to join me in the fight against using the pain chart if you are older than 10???

Or next time I could just say, "So 0 means I shouldn't be here right now, and 10 means I'll need an alibi when I leave here?"

hey i'm with you!! I am a labor and delivery nurse and you can imagine the looks I get when i ask my labor patients to "rate their pain on a scale of one to ten". Although it is funny sometime when i have a first time mom who says "this is a 7" and then an hour later says "i know i said 7 before but this is really a 7". It's like they know that they need to save 10 for later!!:laugh:

LOL Save the 10 for later!!! BAHHHHH!!!!

Ya, that's the point there...Do I save the 10 for when I bite your arm off or mine? LOL

I am feeling guilty. We hijacked Princesses thread and there is a picture of her sweet innocent daughter at the top.

:embarassed:
PL - :flowerforyou:

Yeah...knock it off people!
I didn't PL.:smooched:

Thanks for the luv friends! Back to the crummy chart...I'm not a child, so I have no clue what I should do with the dang chart. Maybe I should bring scissors and cut and color it out next time...

And tape...

Duct tape...

OH I took a week off from doing things...almost...and the leg heeled. I am working more carefully to stretch out before my workouts. I never went in for the leg thing. ::hiding:: I wanted to give it a few to see if I could get it to heel before I went through the hassle of appointments. UGGGG!!!

You'll love this one...LOL I walked around for about two months with a ruptured appendix just after my daughter was born because I was too busy taking hubby to Biloxi for his chemo treatments.

I'm a tough cookie!

Ya, and a sign is getting in my way? HU? LOL