Blimey, that has to hurt..

[Tom]

At first I thought this would be a bit of an advantage in a way, but further reading soon turns you off that notion....

http://www.kare11.com/news/news-article.asp?NEWS_ID=60120

 

[jaba]

is it work safe mr. Tom?

 

[Chilly]

is it work safe mr. Tom?

best to assume no and wait methinks altho im lookin at it now....

 

[Tom]

Yes its totally safe for work, sorry No nudity or sex or anything like that.

 

[Chilly]

is it work safe mr. Tom?

yeah it is.

poor lil girl...think of her when she wants to have sex, orgasms are a kind of pain so shel never have one

 

[Doh_boy]

It's a news article, I haven't read all of it but it was work safe half-way down.

 

[mank!]

It's as safe as Tom's undies drawer. I bet he uses DAZ.

That's depressing, when I started reading I thought but what if she never realises she's got a serious condition, like her appendix is about to burst or she's having a heart attack? That's the least of her worries, me thinks

 

[dysfunction]

Thats quite a sad story.

Just imagine how much danger she will get herself into. She could break her legs and not even know about it...

 

[Summo]

There was a documentary about some British twins (or at least siblings) who had this and would 'play' by smacking each other round the head with household objects.

There's your support group.

 

[Wij]

That's really unsettling tbh. Poor girl

 

[nath]

Yeah, it is very much a disadvantage. I mean, if pain was totally unnecessary then we would have evolved without it.. it really is there for a purpose. The thing I keep thinking of is that she could very easily burn herself in the kitchen..cause a horrendous amount of damage without even noticing it. She's going to have to be very careful and be extremely aware of her surroundings her entire life, it's terrible.

 

[Frizz]

There was a documentary about some British twins (or at least siblings) who had this and would 'play' by smacking each other round the head with household objects.

There's your support group.

Now that's comedy!

 

[Cdr]

There was a documentary about some British twins (or at least siblings) who had this and would 'play' by smacking each other round the head with household objects.

wow, I'd pay to see that

 

[Chilly]

its kind of an extreme case of Leprosy, where you lose the nerve endings. Still a bit crap for her

 

[Frizz]

wow, I'd pay to see that

You can, watch Thirteen.

(My film of 2003 btw!)

 

[Athan]

Hmmm, now admittedly my information on this is from the Thomas Covenant books, but ... Lepers suffer a slight version of this, losing a lot of the feeling in their extremites, and end up having to do VSE - Visual Surveillance of Extremities to check for injuries that could get infected (worse for a Leper than normal).

So, it strikes me that although it's not THE same, there should at least be some experience around at how she should deal with the problem on a practical day to day level.

-Ath

 

[Tom]

Leprosy is a disease, this is a genetic disorder.