Last time I was in shock, I was also in considerable pain, which the shock was keeping me from registering properly. "Rate your pain, one to ten," the nurse ordered. "Oh...maybe a five?" I said. "Right," said the nurse. "We're going to give you some nice morphine now, before you realize how much you actually hurt."

Then we had the conversation in which I learned that pain medications are most effective if you take them before you need them desperately. Medical geekery, apparently, trumps both shock and pain. *g*