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Jim,
Please! Never compare others Pain to yours. Your pain is only felt by you. One thing to remember is that men don’t tolerate pain the same way women do.
Women have double the pain receptors because women were made to bear children.
Your suffering is nothing to belittle or dismiss in comparison to another’s. I don’t compare it to mine because I can’t feel it.
I respect you and feel for you.
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@faithwalker007
Thank you, Renee. It's true that my pain threshold is lower than my wife's. When our kids were young, our son would fall to the floor and writhe in agony over any little owie. But when our daughter cried, we knew it was serious. We were on the way to town one day (a 3 hour drive each way at the time), and she said her stomach was hurting. It took some time and discussion to conclude that she should probably go to the ER, which she did, barely in time before her appendix burst.
It's good to have your perspective on things. I'll try to remember not to compare my pain with what I consider much worse pain in someone else.
Jim