In which my brain to mouth filter fails...

[kpzra]

One night years ago I got pissed at my husband about something, and kicked his ACU pants to close the door. They didn't move enough, so I kicked them again and felt a sharp pain in my foot. His auto opener knife had been in a pocket, and the first kick hit the safety, the second opened the knife into my foot. I start yelling because it hurt and I'm bleeding on a book (no way was I paying for the post housing carpet). He comes in and off to the post ER we go.

Since it's o'dark30 we are seen quickly. The tech gets me in a room and looks at my foot, asks what happened, blahblahblah. Then he starts irrigating it, and asks me how it feels...and the filter went away.

Me: Like you are peeing on me.
Tech: *blinks and is speechless* Yeah, I guess this is kinda warm, but I meant did it hurt.
Me: No, just feels funny, like pee.
Hubby: *embarrassed in corner, in uniform still*



So, time to stitch me up, only they forgot to numb it first. They only realized this when the doctor was checking the stitches and the nurse came in with the lido. That didn't bother me as much as the fact it was stitched completely closed, so it couldn't drain. Had to make a small cut since it was too swollen to get to a stitch.

Yeah, pain makes my brain filter go away sometimes.

[Primer]

When DH's daughter was about 3, she broke her leg in a playground accident. (This was before my time.) He took her to the base ER. The doc had him hold her enfolded in his arms while the doc set the leg (one quick pull). Of course she screamed, then came up hollering, "That HURT, you son of a bitch!" Ahh, the military brats learn so young! <grin>

[AnaKhouri]

When I had Khan, I was so high on c-section drugs that when the nurse held up my new little boy for me to see, the first thing I said was, "His scrotum is huge!"

I mean, it was, though.

[Mishi]

My mother said something similar, for the same reason... problem is, I'm a bio-female!

[RedRoseSpiral]

When I'm in pain from some type of infection my brain to mouth filter is nonexistent and much worse when I was a teenager. I remember one appointment with me GP (who I couldn't stand begged mom for years to find me a new doctor) where I was how I was feeling today. My answer, "I have a yeast infection. How do you think?." My mother wasn't too impressed with that answer. >.>;

There have been a few other instances like after a 9 hour ER wait when an insipid, bimbo of a nurse asked how I was feeling in this really bubbly voice that grated on the nerves. At that point she had already been informed that I'd been in such horrible pain that no matter what position I sat, laid, or stood in there was shooting pain going through both kidneys from a UTI. I don't remember what I said exactly but I do remember my mother glaring at me and she didn't give that glare for no reason.