The only person in the world who does not sleep, eat or feel pain

Wisdom K.E Hammond 5 years ago

Olivia Farnsworth is the only person in the world who does not sleep, eat, or feel pain. She is a British girl and just 10 years old. The health challenge is called Chromosome 6 deletion.

Born in Huddersfield, England, she has not only confused scientists but she has become their biggest headache for the past five years.

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It sounds weird but that is the reality. It sounds impressive but it has serious consequences. If one doesn’t feel pain, one could die from an otherwise preventive accident or injury. Pain is a good thing in the sense that it alerts us to the fact that something is wrong in the body.

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The ability to feel pain/hunger is a physiological necessity. It’s dangerous not to be able to feel pain. Something sinister could be happening in the body which won’t be caught till it becomes fatal.

Another reality about her as someone suffering from Chromosome 6 deletion is that when it comes to eating and sleeping, she’s always forced to rest and eat it even if she does not feel like it.

Her rather strange and fascinating story continuous to travel around the world. She is the only person in the entire world who has all three symptoms of the medical condition which is a rare chromosome condition that stops Olivia from feeling hunger, fatigue, and pain.

According to facts obtained by newsghana24.com when she was 7-year-old, she went out with her mother and got run over. Eventually, she was hit by a car and dragged about 100 feet down the road. After that terrible accident, she just got up and started walking back to her mother. She was just like, “What’s going on?”

As much as this sounds impressive, it’s actually very dangerous. Pain is our body’s way of telling us when something is wrong.

If you can’t feel pain then you most likely would not know when something is wrong, except there are physical manifestations and that isn’t always the case.

With this medical condition, she will not always understand what kind of severe pains people around her go through because she does not feel pain herself. I hope she grows to understand that and be able to help those in pain not using her lack of pains to compare.