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psalm_onethirtyoneTo-day, at five a.m., I made a very important discovery, a discovery so important that I need to use profanity to discuss it: do not fuck with capsaican, because it will fuck your shit up. I, through a series of events so humiliatingly stupid and mundane that I cannot recount them, managed to massage 15% capsaican solution into the palm of my right hand, and for the last seventeen hours I have tried used topical menthol cream, baking soda, soap and water, cold cream, aloe vera, medicated ointment, aspirin, cold compresses, and ice water, with absolutely no success in relieving the pain.
Imagine, if you will, the sensation of a burn. Now imagine that this burn is all over the sensitive parts of your hand. Imagine your tiny nerve endings screaming "GET YOUR FUCKING HAND OUT OF THE FIRE GODDAMMIT" unceasingly, with one breath, for seventeen hours, and imagine that you are trying desperately to comply but you can't because your hand is NOT IN A FIRE. Also, no one around you is offering much sympathy, because to the whole world, including you, your hand looks perfectly normal.
I read somewhere recently that the military is attempting to develop weapons using this kind of nerve-stimulating technology, so that they can do stuff like break up mobs and give women self-protection devices that inflict pain without any actual wounds or physical damage. Well, I think it should be illegal, that's what I think.
I lost it around five this afternoon and had a screaming, sobbing breakdown, but now I have moved to the cold, frenetic stage. Eventually it will go away. It has to. And if it doesn't, I'm going to go out back and chop my hand off with the turkey axe.
Imagine, if you will, the sensation of a burn. Now imagine that this burn is all over the sensitive parts of your hand. Imagine your tiny nerve endings screaming "GET YOUR FUCKING HAND OUT OF THE FIRE GODDAMMIT" unceasingly, with one breath, for seventeen hours, and imagine that you are trying desperately to comply but you can't because your hand is NOT IN A FIRE. Also, no one around you is offering much sympathy, because to the whole world, including you, your hand looks perfectly normal.
I read somewhere recently that the military is attempting to develop weapons using this kind of nerve-stimulating technology, so that they can do stuff like break up mobs and give women self-protection devices that inflict pain without any actual wounds or physical damage. Well, I think it should be illegal, that's what I think.
I lost it around five this afternoon and had a screaming, sobbing breakdown, but now I have moved to the cold, frenetic stage. Eventually it will go away. It has to. And if it doesn't, I'm going to go out back and chop my hand off with the turkey axe.
