The fucking pain scale. If you’ve ever sought treatment for pain, you’ve heard this more than once. Ten means the worst pain you’ve ever experienced.
Or else ten means the worst pain imaginable. Unless it means “bad enough to go to the ER.” Or just “very severe.” My new favorite is “Unspeakable / unimaginable.
Bedridden and possibly delirious.” That seems closest to the gist of it. There’s even a visual scale for kids with faces! The pain scale and its inescapable fuckery All those things are completely different, of course.
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