Friday, June 01, 2012

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Pain and Alzheimer's

My father, 76 years old with early onset Alzheimer's, was a passenger in a car accident.  He fractured two ribs and his sternum and feels very little pain from the injuries.  He does remember the accident.  Can the same thing that causes Alzheimers' also affect one's pain threshold?  Or, is he just lucky?