Better Pain Scale

Those useless pain scales at your doctor's office? Picture- or number-based, and not the least bit capable of making the level of pain you're in clear to your provider, right? Allie Brosh at Hyperbole and a Half has created a better pain scale.

If that made you laugh (in addition to its feeling eerily appropriate for those of us with chronic pain), you may also enjoy everything else she has posted on her blog. If you are religious and never enjoy irreligious treatment of religious stories, avoid "The Year Kenny Loggins Ruined Christmas," but if you consider yourself religious or spiritual and can have a sense of humor about things that Pat Robertson would call blasphemous or heretical, you'll likely enjoy that post, too.