Placebos work even when you know they don't contain medicine

Bravado aside, you didn’t read I qualified my remarks by saying it was my experience that MOST people reporting pain are softkoks?. And I knew it wasn’t the sum of human experience?. I would repeat that to your face, grin, and give you a lesson in proper behaviour if you got out of order.

Sorry to hear your wife is unwell, console yourself with philosophy.