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 Posted: 02/03/06 - 15:40 Post subject: Feeling no pain?
I can't imagine what this would be like, poor little girl!
BIG LAKE, Minnesota (CNN) -- On this assignment, I would spend most of my reporting day in kindergarten.
When I arrived with my crew at Liberty Elementary School in Big Lake, Minnesota, it didn't take long to figure out which child I was there to see -- she was the 5-year-old wearing a pink shirt, blue jeans and safety glasses.
Her name is Gabby Gingras, a little girl who's determined to be just like everyone else. But unlike other children, Gabby does not feel pain.
She has a disorder known as CIPA -- congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis. Although she can feel touch, her brain doesn't receive signals that she's experiencing pain, and she hardly sweats. If Gabby broke her leg, or put her hand on a hot plate, or if her body was overheating, she wouldn't know.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/conditions/02/03/btsc.oppenheim/index.html
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Posted: 02/03/06 - 15:51 Post subject:
Wow. I can't imagine. 
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Posted: 02/03/06 - 15:53 Post subject:
future marathoner.
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Posted: 02/03/06 - 16:00 Post subject:
the strange thing is that by not feeling pain - you could hurt yourself so much worse.
then again, aside from not being mobile (or losing a limb) i guess if it didn't hurt - it might not be so bad?
i wouldn't know what to do about that. how would you know when to stop doing anything?
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karlene
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Posted: 02/03/06 - 16:09 Post subject:
| blue wrote: | the strange thing is that by not feeling pain - you could hurt yourself so much worse.
then again, aside from not being mobile (or losing a limb) i guess if it didn't hurt - it might not be so bad?
i wouldn't know what to do about that. how would you know when to stop doing anything? |
i think thats the point of the article... 
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akern
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Posted: 02/03/06 - 16:15 Post subject:
They thought I had that for years. Turns out I was just drunk. 
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Posted: 02/03/06 - 16:39 Post subject:
Without having read the article - if she can't feel pain, can she feel anything? Hot, cold, rough, smooth?
Tempting that may be, I would not want that.
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karlene
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Posted: 02/03/06 - 16:46 Post subject:
| gretriever wrote: | Without having read the article - if she can't feel pain, can she feel anything? Hot, cold, rough, smooth?
Tempting that may be, I would not want that. |
she can feel trhings like rough/smooth/wet/dry..
but if she feels something that is supposed to 'hurt' her brain doesn't tell her that it hurts...
so she could break an ankle and not realize that she did it...because the pain isn't there
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Posted: 02/03/06 - 16:47 Post subject:
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Posted: 02/03/06 - 18:56 Post subject:
i've read about this before, i can't imagine what her mother must go thru.
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