Posts tagged pain
We must all die. But that I can save him from days of torture, that is what I feel as my great and ever new privilege. Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.
Albert Schweitzer (1931)
The Face of Testicular Pain.
Doctors who took an ultrasound of a man’s testicle to find out what was causing him pain were astounded to find a gaping face staring back at them. I can only imagine the reactions as they looked at the monitor.
Passing a kidney stone was as bad as going through labour. No, worse! If I had a choice between passing another kidney stone and going through three labours back to back, I would choose the babies…and not just because I like babies!
Patient tries to qualify the renal colic associated with passing kidney stones.
