On Tue, 30 May 2006 04:41:30 -0700, Carmen wrote
(in article .com>):

> My husband is an amputee for a different reason, and phantom
> limb pain is *not* fun. Imagine feeling like your foot is horribly
> mangled and cut up - after it's gone. It's not an easy type of pain to
> manage.
>

I have no experience with this, so take what I write with that in
mind.

Have you read "Phantoms in the Brain" by V. S. Ramachandran? In it,
he discusses some ways to address phantom limb pain. The book is
about much more than that, though. I found it a very interesting
exposition about what is known about how brains work, as well as what
is not known.

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Jerry Randal Bauer