Endorphins
I am well aware of just how stupid this strip is but it makes me laugh.
Not surprisingly, this is kind of based on fact. After I fell, endorphins pushed the pain down and it did not hit me full-force until well after my buddy Rodney got me to the Emergency Room. I filled out the paperwork and they took me back to check me out. It was at this point that I started to squirm and my knee began to throb with pain I have trouble putting into words.
I am aware of the issue in the archives around June of 2012 kicking everyone to the middle of the Dungeon Run arc. I have NO idea why it is happening but I am working on getting someone to come in and give the site a bit of maintenance and optimization. I’ll keep you all posted. Sorry for the trouble, everyone.
HOVER-TEXT: We never forgot Pete.
I’ll always remember Pete’s finest moments in Panel 1. Gog that was such a long time ago… he had a good run.
That’s okay, Brian. I think it’s funny.
The comic I mean! Not that you broke your knee all those months ago.
I’ve been there each time I’ve been shot, stabbed or broken bones….. I’m actually on permanent pain killers from the bullets in my head…..
Bad memories. Bad, bad memories.
So not just me huh? Yeah….bad bad memories. To many times
Dude, endorphins don’t have nuclei #outofcontextcriticism
actually endorphins have a LOT of nuclei.
It’s not stupid, that’s your body giving you the gift of getting the absolute Hell’s bells out of wherever you are because it’s most likely dangerous and may start being lethal if you stay.
OH yes looking down and saying “hmm, that don’t look so good, I think I’ll lie here for the nice paramedics.”
For background, my secret identity is as a physician assistant in an ER.
…I will never again look at endorphins in the same way. Little heroes, that’s what they are. “Who’s a good endogenous opiate? You are!”
I don’t think it was so much endorphins as shock, but when I had a motorbike accident and fractured my femur (that big bone between your knee and hip, clean snapped in two) I didn’t feel it at all at the time. I did feel like I’d done about 1000 sit ups (all the pain was in my stomach, I had just run into the side of a 4WD). I only realized I’d broken my leg when I looked down my body and saw that my leg was bent in a place where my knee wasn’t.
We need a Pete T-shirt.
Once snapped the small lower leg bone in my left leg while walking a 150lb 8 month old puppy. Managed to walk back 1/4 mile thinking i had sprained my ankle. After about a half hour started throwing up due to pain
I had an accident doing the dishes about two years ago and sliced my wrist open pretty badly. I was actually giggling right afterwards, due to the endorphins.
This story hits (hurts) home for me too. I had to have my leg reconstructed following a really bad spiral fracture. Recovery took months and daytime TV got really old, really fast (pre-YouTube, those were dark times).
I thought the archive problem was just me, I’m currently on my second complete read-through. Good luck with the fix.
High school. Got my wrist shattered badly enough in gym I nearly needed to have pins inserted. It looked like an extra joint. On the way to the hospital those little guys started their work, and I had to be told not to try seeing if my hand still worked.
God damn it, Pete… Don’t you go and die on me!
Gods, I love endorphins. Well, living with a genetic disorder where I can dislocate things turning over in bed, I owe them a M8lot.
Stupid autocorrect. “I owe endorphins a lot”, not whatever that mess up there is.
“I am well aware of just how stupid this strip is but it makes me laugh.”
I think anyone who’s ever had a severe accident with injury laughed their ass off. I know I did. I just recently was caught in a fireball/explosion while making charcoal (I’m an artist/hobbyist blacksmith who works with historical methods and reclaimed materials) and ended up with severe burns over most of my left arm and minor burns on my face and right arm. At first I was all “it’s no worse than a mild sunburn, I’ll be fine”, but about an hour or so later I just wanted to cut the fucking left arm off and be done with it. So, yeah, this strip made me laugh too.
Yup, I can identify. Came off my motorcycle last year, got up, picked it up, dusted myself off and felt fine. Maybe a little achy. Rode it over to my mechanic, got a cab to my doctor, sat down and proceeded to nearly pass out as the adrenaline and endorphins wore off and the agony came flooding in.
Peeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeete!