The Martian Writing

Ow! You get hurt then you put on a bandaid. But at the end of the day, how would you take it off? Would if be super fast or super slow? This is important becuase in a critical life situation when you are in cruicating pain, you would not know what to do. You should listen to me because I have experienced a situation like this before. I will talk about what you should do in this situation, the evidence, and my experience.

First off, you have a bandage and you don't know what way you should rip it off. Would you rip it off quickly or slowly? I believe that the correct way is to pull it off quickly because, you will only experience one to two seconds of pain. But, if you pulled it off slowly you would experience 10 seconds of pain and would have said, “oh damm this hurts”. When you pull it off quick, the pain will be shorter. You do it slower, the pain will be more excruciating.

Now I will show the evidence to my answer. An article from MJA said that they recorded pain score of the people who pulled a banaid off quickly and the people who did it slowly (Furyk et al., 2009). The results were that the overall mean pain score was 0.92 for the people who quickly pulled it. The other result said that the overall mean pain score was 1.58 for a slow bandage removal. I think you just need to breathe like 5 times and just rip it. This means that quicker bandage removal equals to less pain.

Finally, I will talk about my experience of ripping a bandaid of my skin. 2 years ago, I got a bad cut on my leg. Since I had to take a shower, I had to take the bandaid off. I started ripping it off slowly and it started get more painful as it went on. It was a horrible experience and took me close to 5 minutes to take it off. A year later, I got a shot and decided this time I was going to take it off quickly. I hesitated a little bit but I decided that I will just do it and only losers won't do this. I took 2 deep breaths and ripped it off and exhaled. In the end, I was suprised about how the pain was short.

All in all, I think explaining what you do in this situation, the evidence, and the experience should help you in the future. To be honest it doesn't really matter about if you are weak are not. It matters about how much pain do you want. If you want loads of pain take it off slowly. If you want a short quick amount of pain, take it off quickly. Now, you should tell you friends and family that taking a bandage off quickly will be a shorter and quicker amound of pain. Don't be too suprised if you say, “Ow!”, because it is common that you will feel some pain while doing this.