The pain scale goes from zero to ten.
At zero, you feel no pain or discomfort.
At ten, that’s all you feel.
It’s not easy, coming up with an objective measure for a subjective experience like pain, but when you’re in pain, you’ll come up with a number pretty damn quick.
There were times in the hospital when I was rolling around in agony, calling for the nurse to bring me pain pills.
You don’t calmly say nine. You growl it, you whimper it, or you scream it.
Then, relief comes… slowly…
One and zero never felt so damned good.