Sunday, November 1, 2009
Pain-free
I really enjoyed reading about the girl who couldn't feel pain. It seems as if pain should be a bad thing, but it can really help us. I watched an episode of House (my favorite show) this week that was about a girl who had this same problem. She was in a car accident and that's how she got to the hospital. At one point in the show, she stuck her hand in a cup full of boiling water and got second degree burns because she couldn't feel it. She also constantly had to check her fever because she would never be able to tell if she had one or not. While in the hospital, she had such a high fever that she lost consciousness, but she didn't know it beforehand. It was really interesting. Something was wrong with her, but she could tell them where it hurt, so it was a wild goose chase. They had to check everything.
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That is a very interesting concept. Pain is actually a good thing because, like you said, it allows us to tell where we are actually hurt. If we cant tell we have a cut on the bottom of our foot, we may not be able to figure it out until we have blood infection, and die.
ReplyDeleteOther than learning about this in this chapter I also heard about it on the actual news. It was so sad how this child couldn't be a normal child because of it. It showed an interview of a family with a daughter who could feel no pain. This was not only hard on the daughter who had to undergo body checks many times a day to see if she was injured but also for her family. Eventually this girl learned to check for injuries on her own and always notifyed someone when she saw blood. So though this girl had no pain she developed different ways of watching out for herself.
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