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LinnaeaBorealis -> RE: What is the greatest pain in the world? (1/28/2011 2:28:33 PM)
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I don't mind loneliness, because it is fleeting. I love to spend time alone & when I am truly feeling lonely, I reach out to touch someone, either here or in the real world. I think that the absolute worst emotional pain has to be losing one's child. If my daughter should go before me, I don't know how I will survive. She tried to die twice in the first few days of her life & I've been terrified that it might actually come to pass while I am still able to feel that pain.
I didn't think that childbirth hurt all that much. In fact, I nearly slept through the birth of my first, awakening to the nurses running down the hall screaming, "STOP PUSHING!!!"
But the absolute worst physical pain was leaving my motorcycle, flying thru the air & landing under an Oldsmobile. The passenger tire was on my ankle. I broke 8 bones, including my kneecap, my sacrum, my pelvis & a cervical vertabra. The first time they got me out of bed & made me walk 3 steps to a chair & sit down, I pondered why I had always thought it would be a bad thing to be a quad, because at least if I was paralyzed I wouldn't be feeling my entire body in pain. I've not had an entire day without physical pain since & it's been nearly 30 years now.
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