What's the most painful experience you've had?

When I was 7 or 8 I had appendicitis and went to the hospital for it. For whatever reason, I am/was a little abnormal and my appendix was tucked underneath my liver, meaning it did not show up on any tests. My appendix ruptured in the hospital and I was sent home for 7 days with intestinal gas.

Posting a troll thread that I'm proud of and not getting any responses. Hurts deep

Crohn's disease. Intestines exploded (or perhaps imploded would be a better descriptor) and the resulting pain/hospital stay/surgery/recovery were excruciating. I can't imagine anything more painful, and if there is, I'm terribly sorry.

I'll go ahead and jump into this thread.

I used to work as a salesmen at this company in Pennsylvania. One day we found out that my boss ran over a coworker and fractured her pelvis, luckily, when she went to the hospital the doctors found out she had rabies and were able to cure her.

My boss decided to host a Rabies 5k in her honor, and he made us all run it. I've walked 2 marathons before, so I was pretty sure I would be able to handle a 5k. I bandaged up my nipples before the race because my nipples are really sensitive. About a mile into the race I collided with this fat coworker of mine and the bandages fell off because of it, my nipples ended up chafing so bad that they bled through my shirt and all my coworkers saw.

Gray is my Favorite Color wrote:

The rejection and loss of divorce following a 19 year marriage and 26 year relationship. 1000x worse than when my Mom died. We're still "friends and co-parents" though so I get to revisit the pain and suffering almost every day for the next 10+ years.

Almost half of those married in the past 20 years have been divorced. Why are you so blown away by a common event? "Pain and suffering every day" lolol.

Why did you divorce? Why would you stay "friends"?

I'm numb right now wrote:

cause if I had death already i wouldn't be posting, MOORON

AlSal had death and he can post.

You're just a weakling.

Curiosity wrote:

Gray is my Favorite Color wrote:

The rejection and loss of divorce following a 19 year marriage and 26 year relationship. 1000x worse than when my Mom died. We're still "friends and co-parents" though so I get to revisit the pain and suffering almost every day for the next 10+ years.

Is the pain from a feeling of failure or wanting to get back to something and not being able to?

Heavy, man. Hope you're managing ok.

Did you have to close out his Facebook and email?

Blah Blah. wrote:

1) losing a half a million dollars in the stock market

2) getting dumped by a fiancée.

Being $1,000,000 "up" in a poker game is not being a millionaire.

You didn't "lose" $500,000. You never had it. It was imaginary.

Same with your made-up fiancé.

Tinkle tinkle wrote:

Kidney stones. No other pain, physical or emotional is even close.

Only actually painful thing on this thread.

"Anyway wanna cut that cake she's a dyin from the likes of abandonment."

-RHCP

"Fat Charlie the archangel files for divorce. Sad as a lonely little wrinkle of a balloon. Says 'this will eat up a year of my life. And then there's all that weight to be lost.'"

-Paul Simon

While retrieving paracargo out of some trees in the middle of no where I fell out of a tree roughly 50 ft high, bounced off a boulder and slid down hill 300 ft. I had broken my collar bone, my ribs, and my pelvis and I was alone. My radio was by the tree that was 300 ft up hill and I couldn't even stand, so I crawled back to the radio to get back in communication with my team. The rest of the guys parachuted in and packed my broken ass up, hats off to them. A broken pelvis is the worst pain I've ever experienced on a physical level. Combined with the broken ribs and collar bone even a small sneeze seemed like the world would crumble beneath me.

Gray is my Favorite Color wrote:

The rejection and loss of divorce following a 19 year marriage and 26 year relationship. 1000x worse than when my Mom died. We're still "friends and co-parents" though so I get to revisit the pain and suffering almost every day for the next 10+ years.

I've been through this, too. Here's what you need to learn:

You don't have to revisit it every day.

You get to set the parameters for contact and expectations. You don't owe him/her anything. When they have the kids, they have the kids and need to take care of their own sh!t. Same when you have them. Set boundaries and even rules for contact if it's painful. When you hear: "I need you to pick up Jimmy because I'm busy," or " I need the gutters cleaned," or "I need you/the kids to come to my mother's birthday" there are legit answers that range from "No" to "Sorry, I'm busy" to "What will you trade me?"

1. Kidney Stones. Mother of God, that hurt - even morphine didn't cut the pain.

2. Run over by a car (both legs) when I was 13.

3. Falling down the stairs and breaking my back, bones in my feet and fingers.

4. Prostate biopsy without anesthesia because the f-ing insurance company wouldn't pay for it.

5. (5 weeks ago) Retina detachment surgery. Done while you are awake and they stick needles and an ice-cold cryoprobe in your eye. The local anesthetic does very little.

6. Dragged the wrong way over a small bridge by a horse (i.e. across the width of the bridge; not the length) Broken ankle and fingers and dislocated shoulder.

i got blind sided while running down field full speed on kick off coverage. Never saw the guy. He out weighed me by 30 lbs.

i crawled over to the sidelines and layed there for abt 5 minutes. My team mates loved watching the replay in film session

Both, but the failure part is much bigger. So many what-ifs .... Looking back I realize hat I missed so many opportunities to do something, and I could have saved the best and most important part of my life. After I realized the gravity of the situation and I made changes, it didn't matter. I never really got a second chance. For the record, I was not unfaithful and didn't make any major mistakes, just death by a thousand paper cuts is the best way to describe it.

Curiosity wrote:

Gray is my Favorite Color wrote:

The rejection and loss of divorce following a 19 year marriage and 26 year relationship. 1000x worse than when my Mom died. We're still "friends and co-parents" though so I get to revisit the pain and suffering almost every day for the next 10+ years.

Is the pain from a feeling of failure or wanting to get back to something and not being able to?

Either having my back go out while sitting up after bending over to turn off a printer under my desk--the lightning bolt everyone speaks of--or having a former best friend forward me an email I had sent to one of our practice partners in which I commented negatively on my former friend's behavior in a negative way. Haven't spoken to him since. Learned a painful lesson there.

I'm glad you find it amusing. Why am I blown away by a common event? Because it's not a common event when it happens to you. We are still friends first because we don't hate each other and still get a long well, plus we have kids. The painful part is knowing what we have now is not what we had and knowing/regretting that I missed opportunities to fix things but was too blind/naive to realize it at the time.

sorry but wrote:

Gray is my Favorite Color wrote:

The rejection and loss of divorce following a 19 year marriage and 26 year relationship. 1000x worse than when my Mom died. We're still "friends and co-parents" though so I get to revisit the pain and suffering almost every day for the next 10+ years.

Almost half of those married in the past 20 years have been divorced. Why are you so blown away by a common event? "Pain and suffering every day" lolol.

Why did you divorce? Why would you stay "friends"?

I'm numb right now wrote:

1. Abandonment

2. Abuse

3. Running your first marathon in 90 degrees

4. Divorce

Tried to break up a double play in co-ed softball, shortstop beaned me right in the orbital bone. Nothing broken but nothing has ever hurt so bad in my life. Cried for an hour until someone found some vicodin for me.

got my deck out for harambe but the cops tased me.