Pain Rankings

My oldest daughter was quizzing me on pain last night on the way home from Kid's Club.  She had gotten a splinter in the palm of her hand earlier in the week and it had peeled and was a bit inflamed.  You would have though she was dying by how she was carrying on.  She's always been a bit dramatic.  Some would say she got it from me but I prefer to think that she got it from her father's side of the family. I'm of stoic Scandinavian descent, not very dramatic.  But that being said, I have an extremely low pain tolerance, so maybe she did get that from me.

She wanted me to list my top five most painful experiences, and she wasn't accepting of a flippant answer, so I actually had to think about it and this is what I came up with.  1 is the worst pain and 5 is the least of any major pain experiences I've had:

1. Tonsillectomy recovery
2. Childbirth
3. Gallbladder attacks
4. Migraines
5. Breaking off the funny bone in my elbow

I realized after that I am very fortunate that this is the worst I've ever had to endure.