A 71-year-old Scottish woman may offer a wondrous path to the reduction or elimination of pain in humans because of one astonishing fact: she has never experienced physical pain.
Jo Cameron’s body works in such a way that she has even remained unaware of burning herself until she smelled her skin burning, as CNN reports. She paid little attention to her remarkable capacity for a pain-free existence until doctors found she had severe degeneration in her hip joint when she was 65 — but had no pain at all. When she was 66, she had surgery on her hand, but had no pain after surgery. Cameron stated, “I had no idea until a few years ago that there was anything that unusual about how little pain I feel. I just thought it was normal.” At age 65, the woman sought treatment for an issue with her hip, which turned out to involve severe joint degeneration despite her experiencing no pain.
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