Pain curves

An interesting phenomenon occurs when one sustains multiple injuries similar in severity. Different types of injuries have what I call different "pain curves". That is, physical sensation versus time. Some of them are sprinters, like the road rash was, quickly healing in a blaze of glory. Some of them are general all-arounders, like the wrist, gradually improving over weeks. And some of them are like RAAM riders, becoming totally unnoticeable when the other hotshots are around. But they're relentlessly steady, with no perceptible variation in pace over the weeks. That would be like my toe that the oxygen tank was dropped on. I could learn a thing or two about pacing from that thing.

If I didn't have several injuries healing simultaneously, I would feel like I was wasting the magical healing powers of youth. Heaven forbid.