Hemmjo.....You are right. We are " wimps " compared to what our ancestors have gone through. I remember as a young kid, my Grandfather going to the Dentist to have a tooth pulled. The dentist was outside cleaning fish when we got there. When the dentist got ready to pull the tooth, he asked my Grandfather " with or without ", meaning pain killer . My Grandfather asked how much more it would cost for the pain killer, and the dentist told him $5.00, so my Grandfather told him without, and pulled a hair on Grandfather's arm at the same time he pulled his tooth. This was probably in the early 1940's, when $5.00 was a lot of money.....I don't know, it could have been during War time, when everything was in short supply; and $5.00 was really a lot of money.