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...America is getting more unnatural every day. A woman expecting her first baby today has a 25% chance of delivering by caesarean. Even a 'natural' birth often means that the mother is merely 'awake' for the proceedings. Never mind that she's strapped down, numb below the waist, electronically monitored, chemically induced, and intravenously...
...noticed some numb spots and blemishes on her skin. Doctors diagnosed Hansen's Disease...
Oakley opposes the use of pain-killing injections during birth, particularly the ones that numb the lower half of the mother's body and, according to the sociologist, make her feel more like a spectator than a participant. "It is a profoundly alienating experience," she says. "The mothers felt like it was someone else's child." Her advice: proper support from husband and hospital will eliminate anxiety, and thus reduce pain to a bearable limit without drugs...
...Justin saw on the horizon was a white-hot, white desert. Stranded, his food ravaged by the rabid bear, left without an igloo, he felt doomed. His fingers no longer functioned, his features were numb from the incessant cold...
...feel that you can never get caught up, that you always have something hanging over you. So you use alcohol to numb your brain so you don't think about...