Guy to cut off feet on the net!

ISP

Well why not!? They're his feet and all.......
>> http://www.cutoffmyfeet.com/

ISP

bboyneko

Any of you ever felt phantom limbs? This is a weird condition where despite a limb being removed, the amputee continues to feel pain in that ghost limb, and to feel as if it is there.

I have experienced it once before, my arm fell asleep while I slept on my comfy couch watching Poekmon. When i got up my dead arm went WHUMP on my side and i couldnt feel it all..but where the arm had been, wrapped around my head..thats where I still felt it. It was so creepy. I even started to squeeze my real arm, and i could feel the prickling, needle sensation not where my arm was physically, but where it had been.

See if you can reach out and grab this cup in your right hand. What are you feeling now?"
I feel my fingers clasping the cup."
"Okay try it again." (As the patient tries to reach for the cup, the doctor pulls it farther away)
"Ouch! Why did you do that?"
"Do what?"
"It felt like you ripped the cup right out of my fingers." (James Shreeve, June 1993)
In a normal situation, the patient would have had the cup pulled out of his hand. However, the patient, Fred Aryee, did not have his right arm; he lost it in a storm at sea. How is this possible? When Mr. Aryee lost his arm in 1983, he should not have any feelings after its loss. Yet in amputees, this condition, known as phantom limbs, is all too common. Oftentimes, the feelings that occur are simply ones of normal perception, but often, they are very painful, resulting in another condition called phantom pain.

Its very very odd. From what I've read scientists dont know this happens. They even tried deadening the nerves that would transmit ghost sensations but the amputeee continueed to feel the ghost limb.

Ive heard paranormal explanations and some odd scientific ones.

Billygoat

Eeeewwwww!

Billygoat

Utopian Reformist

May I offer an unresearched hypothesis on ghost limbs?

If I may proceed, I believe that these sensations and feelings can probably be traced to cerebral sources. Basically, the synapses are accustomed or trained to have communicated with the nerves in the former limb.

Perhaps, its just a case of memory and mental conditioning.

bboyneko

Yeah, thats what alot of scientists seem to be finding, that remarkebly, the brain adopts news nerve pathways to make up for the severed limb. But that dosent explain a case like this:

A Remarkable Case of Phantom Limbs
This is a very interesting case of phantom sensation. It comes from an article by Lacroix et al., 1992
.. http://www.macalstr.edu/~psych/whathap/UBNRP/Phantom/reference.html#Lacroix
It describes a situation where a girl was born with her right leg 10cm shorter than her left. At age 6 she had the leg amputated below the knee, subsequently she perceived two phantom feet and three sets of phantom toes. These phantoms have not faded in ten years, and still continue to be as vivid as when she first perceived them. What is interesting is the way the phantom limbs are arranged.
She has one whole phantom foot, including the toes, replacing the amputated foot, which was 10 cm higher than the other normal foot.
There is another set of toes that extends from the end of the stump. These seem to represent a set of toes that she never possessed because of the limb deficiency.
She experiences a third phantom, which is of the part of the leg that she was born without. It extends to the ground and consists of an outer shell of the missing limb, calf, foot, and a set of phantom toes.
It is interesting that the phantom sensation incorporated the abnormal posistion of the physical foot prior to the amputation, while the phantom of the amputated foot at the end of the stump did not. Thus, phantoms cannot be simple reflections of the somatosensory homunculus.

philo

LOL - this is wonderful stuff.

When I was fighting the unequal battle with a certain prominent member (that's a round about, English way of talking about TRYING TO CUT DOWN ON WANKING) as a dub, I used to think of doing what the ancient greek bloke did, cut it off.

Ye Gods in heaven! How spiritually unhealthy was I?

philo

Vienna

I heard that guy who is cutting off his feet on Howard Stern. I hope he gets enough money to get the operation done.

Kat_

My question: the website says nothing about medical help. Is he just going to sit there and cut his feet off willy-nilly? No medical precautions? No infection control? Isn't this kind of dangerous without medical intervention? What are they going to do with the feet??? I hardly think they can just 'throw' them in the trash bin.

Kat

Rex B13

Bboyneko,
As immortal souls we are born into a physical body which is designed to have the same basic characteristics. We will leave our bodies upon death, taking on a spiritual nature alone and we will not be complete until the resurrection into spiritual bodies, not unlike our own we have now. Read the passages in the gospel accounts of Jesus after His resurrection. He has both physical abilities AND spiritual characteristics. Man is an immortal soul. He is created in God's image and angels are not. This is one of the reasosn that Satan grew to hate mankind so much.
Later,
Rex

mommy

ISP
You always find such interesting stuff on the net! Thanks for sharing.

BBoy,
As a nurse, I often medicated patients with pain meds for "phantom limb pain" I can attest to this happening quite frequently. And the thought is along the lines that it is a central nervous system misfire, which can actually cause and maintain real pain. There was one man who had a below the knee amputation for over 50 years, and it was not until he started becoming senile, he started to feel the pain. But, the doctors do treat it as "real" pain, and it is usually relieved with medication.
wendy

In a controversy the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Guy to cut off feet on the net!

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