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Amazing pain stories
Part 1
Losing legs and getting shot
Some
warning
system!
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P
ain really is amazing. Most of us have heard
stories where people have had severe injury and
no pain at the time of injury. As the rat suggests –
‘some warning system’! Severe injury creates lots
of loud alarm signals that pour into the brain, but
these do not necessarily result in pain.
The amount of pain you experience does not
necessarily relate to the amount of tissue
damage you have sustained.
Look at Norman (still nursing his sore nose), now
unfortunately with an arrow through his neck.
While themonkey bite hurt a great deal, this
comparatively serious injurymay not hurt at all.
In emergency rooms all around the world,
patients arrive impaled by various objects. Many
are lucky because the object may not have
interferedwith vital organs, and amazingly, many
report little or no pain.
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Check out the story of
Mr Hammerhead Shark in ‘Painful Yarns’.
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