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Recieved: 2003/01/25 14:34
Subject: Re: [k-list] What is pain for?
From: felix
On 2003/01/25 14:34, felix posted thus to the K-list:
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 22:30:36 +0000
"Susan Carlson" <divine_goddess AT_NOSPAM hotmail.com> wrote:
> Ask a diabetic how important the feeling of pain is when his/her nerve endings have been destroyed by high blood sugar. There are major lifestyle modifications required when one feels no physical pain.
> Emotional pain....hmmm...another kettle of fish altogether...
Hi Susan,
I gnow very little about the medical approach to pain. Your
comment helps me to understand a little about my father's
situation as he got older. He got the kind of diabetes some
say comes from advanced aging. He died when he was 88. He
was in the bed a lot in the last few years, though he didn't
really have any ailments. They said his brain has shrunk,
and although he was lucid at times, his activities were
reduced to child-like activities, as was his memory. You
gnow.
The interesting thing was that he experienced no pain. I
asked him frequently, and he always replied in the negative.
He seemed surprised when I asked. Maybe his nerve endings
had been destroyed by the diabetes, but he never was really
sick, just old.
My father was my teacher. He was a teacher by profession, as
was my mother, and his mother before him. Our relationship
was based on pain. Primarily emotional pain on his part and
passed on to me physically. It started in the cradle and
continued until I was big enough to resist. Violence seemed
to be a tradition in his family. There were times when I had
to be taken to the Doctor to be treated. I learned to
tolerate physical pain. I don't seem threatened by it.
Emotional pain, however, is something I seem to have had to
learn to cope with on my own. I think my father protected me
from that until I went out on my own. It was a hard thing to
learn, but not as difficult as mental pain.
Physical and emotional pain, in my life, can be imposed by
others, whereas mental pain seems to be something one does
to themselves.
felix
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