Fact: Your brain interprets pain but can’t actually feel it.
When you sprain your ankle, nerve fibers send a signal to your brain, which recognizes the sensation as pain, explains Josie Znidarsic, DO, a physician in the Cleveland Clinic’s Center for Integrative Medicine. But when something that would otherwise be painful—let’s say, surgery—happens in the brain itself, it’s a different story: Nerve fibers in the brain might send out the same types of signals as for a sore ankle, but there’s nowhere for them to go to be processed. That’s why, creepily, patients are often awake during brain surgery (and not in agony); surgeons can actively stimulate brain areas to make sure the procedure is going as planned without fear of hurting them, says Livovich.
We took it easy in the morning and headed to Girls Night Out at 11:15 AM. It was a delightful lunch with the gang. We returned home to take Scout outside before leaving again for Los Alamitos.
We headed west at 4:00 PM to get a 6-month pass for parking. When it acts up, the knee does not allow me to walk very far. If they can cure it, we will give the pass back to the DMV.
From there we went to Old Ranch for Comedy Night and it was fabulous.
Good Clean Comedy; Something hard to find these days!
Juan was happy to see us.
Asleep as usual.
