John's face is hit by a bike messenger in Chicago, starting years of chronic mouth pain (about 2003)
story · status: followed over 3 videos (2013–2016) · last event: told (2016-05-10)
Around 2003 a bike messenger's shoulder hit John's face as he stood reading on a Chicago curb, starting years of chronic mouth pain. In 2015 he called the pain ongoing and in 2016 counted more than 150 dentist visits in 13 years; in a 2013 clip he said a complicated surgery to remove a tooth had stopped it hurting.
Told alongside: John's fourth oral surgery for chronic mouth pain (2015)
About: Chicago (city), chronic pain
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-07-19 (happened 2013) | update | John explains his missing tooth: terrible chronic pain since before Brotherhood 2.0 ended in a complicated, painful surgery, and it no longer hurts. · also in: John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated | TFiOS Movie, Bees, Babies, and More! 00:01:16 |
| 2015-05-19 | update | John says he first referred to this still-continuing pain in his second vlogbrothers video, in 2007. | Pain Destroys Language: John after the Dentist 00:00:14 |
| 2016-05-10 (happened 2003) | told | John says he has been to the dentist more than 150 times in the 13 years since a bike messenger's shoulder ran into his face as he stood on a Chicago curb reading a novel. | On Pain 00:00:11 |
What is said about it
4 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2015-05-19 · Pain Destroys Language: John after the Dentist — John says chronic pain is just the worst. — 00:00:39
- 2016-05-10 · On Pain — recommendation: The description highly recommends Scarry's The Body in Pain to anyone who lives with chronic pain or loves someone who does. — video description
- 2016-05-10 · On Pain — John says the original fractures were misdiagnosed, leading to a long-term infection, many surgeries and ongoing pain. — 00:00:22
- 2016-05-10 · On Pain — John says turning toward hope is challenging with chronic pain but not impossible, admitting that is easy for him to say with excellent care and no constant pain. (hedged) — 00:02:44