solarbird | (Reply)

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Oh, there is a great comfort to hear it! When we last were in the hands of the surgeons, they did a local anaesthetic plus a rather large dosage of something intravenous which left us quite disinterested in worrying about anything at all.

In general terms, we have striven greatly to avoid becoming enmeshed in the coils of any for-profit hospital system anywhere, being of the mind that the hospital is a place best avoided, and that the true place of healing for many of our people may be the seashore, or the pool of a waterfall, or perhaps a mossy glade in the forest.

For some years now, we have had a more or less open prescription for very strong narcotic analgesics, but they are strictly of use in those times when we are so distracted by external stressors that it is not possible to address directly, negotiate with, and reframe the pain. There lies a skill that ought to be more widely taught. Perhaps you possess that skill at a native level; for us, it is doubtless a (non-documentable) software feature rather than a hardware feature.