Originally Posted by
LK-13
funny thing,
I have no sensation in my left forearm and hand.
What that means is that from my motorcycle crash back in 1988 my left forearm and hand can not feel any external stimulus.
Touch my hand, I don't feel it.
Pour water on my hand, I don't feel it.
Shove a knife through my hand, I don't feel it.
set my hand on a red hot stove, I do't feel it.
but,
damage to the tissue or bones over time does begin to ache as the nerves slowly react to the physical changes to the tissue or bones shape/structure.
so cutting a chunk out will slowly begin to ache over the first few hours then take a year or more to stop aching.
add to this the Phantom Pain I have and do live with since Sept. 1988 and life is just a barrel of laughs.
My left forearm and hand are telling me that it is being crushed by a 500lbs weight.
24/7 365, it never stops, never goes away, sometimes gets worse, and has been there since Sept. 29, 1988. so 22 years exactly on the 29th of this month.
The reason I know it's a 500lbs weight is I actually had a 500lbs casting sandwich my hands between it and the lathe bed back in the day.
and there is nothing that can be done about it.
here's the amazing part, I take nothing for it.
I've trained myself to ignore the pain.
his is why I can and have fallen asleep while being tattooed.