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A 3-year-old girl has a very rare neurological disorder: she literally feels no pain .

Something didn’t seem right when their little baby kept scratching her face. Things got worse when Gabby started teething. “She (was) severely gnawing on her hands, when the teeth come through even a little bit — biting, biting, biting, so they looked like raw hamburger,” Trish says.

[…] Because Gabby feels no pain, she no longer has any teeth. “Didn’t hurt her at all getting a tooth ripped out,” Steve Gingras says.

The teeth she didn’t break off while biting toys were removed by an oral surgeon after Gabby chewed up her mouth and tongue so badly she had to be hospitalized.

[…] Gabby didn’t have pain to save her eyes either. She scratched them so severely, that at one point doctors sewed them shut to keep her fingers out. But, the damage was already done.

Last week Gabby’s family was at Fairview University Medical Center to discuss the removal of her left eye, now swollen and blind from glaucoma brought on by the scratching.

Even with the habits learned from 36 years of the capacity to feel pain, I don’t know how long I’d last in this world were they suddenly to disappear. Growing up without them? It’s hard to imagine.