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To: servo1969

How do you teach compassion to someone who, according to educators who knew him, could feel no physical or emotional pain?


14 posted on 12/18/2012 4:37:21 PM PST by JimSEA
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To: JimSEA

If he were completely without the ability to feel pain I’d doubt he’d be very successful with any remotely physical activity, so that sounds like an exaggeration. Medication can provoke neuropathy, but there’s usually a sort of nonspecific aching associated with a surface numbness that is more specific. My father had it, nerve pain but his feet were numb, difficulty walking because he couldn’t feel iiregularities beneath his feet and it affected his balance.


25 posted on 12/18/2012 4:47:12 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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