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What is the most difficult thing you have ever had to do?

What is the most difficult thing you have ever had to do?
Give a guy who I was pretty sure was already dead mouth to mouth resuscitation. I had to put my lips on a dead guy's mouth.

Second hardest was testing for the phase two classes at Princeton Academy of Martial Arts. I had to throw a shitload (I forget how many) good muay thai kicks in two three minute rounds with a one minute break between while chasing the instructor around the ring and parrying or blocking light jabs and kicks aimed at me. Felt like I was having a heart attack and was getting tunnel vision by the time I was done.

What is the most difficult thing you have ever had to do?
Kill a man with a knife and listen to him choke on his own blood while his severed carotid sprayed me with blood.

What is the most difficult thing you have ever had to do?

Say no to sex :eek: With my girlfriend :eek: Who is completely gorgeous :eek: :(

live through 65 hours of labor without drugs.

work 80 hours a week and still pull an A average in highschool

quit abusing drugs.

yeah, I think they all tie, can't pick one.

live through 65 hours of labor without drugs.

work 80 hours a week and still pull an A average in highschool

quit abusing drugs.

yeah, I think they all tie, can't pick one.
65 hours of labor? God Damn that's got to suck.

Emotionally: Probably euthanising half our colony of rats here in the lab. One guy, I think got stuck in the bladder, there was blood everywhere and he wasn't dying, so we had to sit and watch him die for ages. Took about an hour. OK, they're rats - vermin - but I've never killed anyone, so this one probably seems lame in comparison to some of the other stories here. But I've never killed anything bigger than an ant before, so this one was tough for me...

Physically: 8 hour hike through the Wiclow Mountains, along the ridge of the upper lake and down around the lower lake. In boots that were too small for my swollen feet. That sucked.

Academically: Three months of 12 hour study days to pass my degree finals. It worked out, I came 3rd of my class! I even know enough Solid State Physics to do reasonably well on the paper!

Emotionally: Probably euthanising half our colony of rats here in the lab. One guy, I think got stuck in the bladder, there was blood everywhere and he wasn't dying, so we had to sit and watch him die for ages. Took about an hour. OK, they're rats - vermin - but I've never killed anyone, so this one probably seems lame in comparison to some of the other stories here. But I've never killed anything bigger than an ant before, so this one was tough for me...

Physically: 8 hour hike through the Wiclow Mountains, along the ridge of the upper lake and down around the lower lake. In boots that were too small for my swollen feet. That sucked.

Academically: Three months of 12 hour study days to pass my degree finals. It worked out, I came 3rd of my class! I even know enough Solid State Physics to do reasonably well on the paper!
Why did it take an hour for the rat to die? Couldn't you put it out of it's misery?

Kill a man with a knife and listen to him choke on his own blood while his severed carotid sprayed me with blood.
The military sure must have been fun, wasn't it?

65 hours of labor? God Damn that's got to suck.
probably sucked for my husband more than me, he never left my side, didn't go to the bathroom, didn't eat because they wouldn't let me eat and he didn't want to eat in front of me, didn't drink (same reason as not eating), didn't sleep, the only time he left was when I fired my doctor and he had to go find a new one.

I believe that I was pretty cranky the whole time too, so in addition to him hanging out with me and stuff, I was probably pretty mean, I think I almost broke his hand, and also he still has a scar from where I was digging my fingernails into his arm.

I think this is too much to share.

I was on two tabs of acid and had to sit through my little brothers birthday party with my whole family without letting them suspect. The cake had waves travelling through it.

When I was a teenager I was paralyzed from the neck down from a spinal cord tumor (intramedulary astrocytoma C3-C7). I had to deal with unbeliveably intense pain, surgery and radiation therapy. I also had to learn to walk and use my arms from scratch. During this period I was cathed 4 times a day untill my bladder started working again and had my "solid waste" removed by hand by poorly trained nurses aids every other day untill my bowls started working again. All this while going through puberty. It's hard enough going through puberty without having dozens of people poking and prodding your naked body in unspeakable ways regularly. Needless to say, that was a very unplesant year for me. I still have problems from it, but that was the worst.

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Why did it take an hour for the rat to die? Couldn't you put it out of it's misery?

It takes longer for the stuff to work if it's injected into an organ rather than into the peritoneal space. Don't know why. And it knockes them out cold, they don't feel anything, they're unconcious within seconds. Sometimes we knock them out before we stick them. They just never wake up.
This stuff either went into his bladder (which means that some leaks out with his pee) or into his intestines (some leaks out with his poo), we don't know. We gave him the maximum dose, it's enough to kill a large dog, usually they die within a minute, two if it's a large rat. We wouldn't have let him suffer, but if we inject more, it'll cause massive organ failure before he falls asleep, which is more painful.

Get up in the morning and go to work.

It takes longer for the stuff to work if it's injected into an organ rather than into the peritoneal space. Don't know why. And it knockes them out cold, they don't feel anything, they're unconcious within seconds. Sometimes we knock them out before we stick them. They just never wake up.
This stuff either went into his bladder (which means that some leaks out with his pee) or into his intestines (some leaks out with his poo), we don't know. We gave him the maximum dose, it's enough to kill a large dog, usually they die within a minute, two if it's a large rat. We wouldn't have let him suffer, but if we inject more, it'll cause massive organ failure before he falls asleep, which is more painful.
OK, I might have just quickly smashed it's skull with a heavy object if it was in pain, but if it's just sitting there waiting to fall asleep I guess it's not necessary.

OK, I might have just quickly smashed it's skull with a heavy object if it was in pain, but if it's just sitting there waiting to fall asleep I guess it's not necessary.

Well, sometimes, we put them to sleep in ether, and then chop their heads off. Thankfully I rarely have to see that, it's gross when I do have to bear witness it it though. But we use their brains, so beheading is necessary for our experiments. But at least those ones die for a reason, it's tougher when they have to die beause we've run out of space in our dedicated animal room.