20230530 Ruminations on Pain, Both Physical and Mental

I had a bit of a setback in the recovery from wrenching my back on the Victoria Day weekend. Things were proceeding as expected, when Thursday last week I got nauseous and sweaty from the pain.

As in, I was in a lot of pain, but oddly it didn't feel as if I were in level 7 to 8 (on a scale of 10) pain.

This odd contradiction of the symptoms of pain being much higher than the reality felt got me to thinking about the relationship between physical and mental pain.