{"id":6659,"date":"2015-12-10T21:01:46","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T02:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=6659"},"modified":"2019-05-15T13:49:27","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T17:49:27","slug":"my-reluctant-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=6659","title":{"rendered":"My reluctant brain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even when I was in the hospital, just days after surgery, I was incredulous to find that my brain won’t listen to me.<\/p>\n

Me: “With all this laying-around time, I could catch up on my reading!”<\/p>\n

Brain: “Nope. No books.”<\/p>\n

Me: “How about magazines? Lots of pretty pictures!”<\/p>\n

Brain: “Nope. No magazines.”<\/p>\n

Me: “Hey, we could watch a movie! We never have enough time to see all the movies on the watchlist.”<\/p>\n

Brain: “Nah. Too much noise and too much going on.”<\/p>\n

Me: “Oh, music! We could just sit and listen to music … Classical especially.”<\/p>\n

Brain. “Nope. Not interested.”<\/p>\n

Me: “How about all those courses lined up in Udemy? Some of those are pretty easy, and geared to passive learning.”<\/p>\n

Brain: “Shut the hell up.”<\/p>\n

My brain seems to be a separate creature, removed from my will.<\/p>\n

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I gather that this is some primitive brain function, meant to keep me from overdoing it, while my brain devotes itself to healing – and protecting itself from another invasion.<\/p>\n

It’s exasperating as hell.\u00a0All this time on my hands. So much time…. The one thing I never have enough of, and now I have tons of it, and I can’t do anything with it.<\/p>\n

All I can do is lay around. And do some stretching. I guess that’s allowed because it wards off the lower back pain.<\/p>\n

What else, brain? Will you please let me do something of substance?<\/p>\n

“Shut the hell up.”<\/p>\n

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Even when I was in the hospital, just days after surgery, I was incredulous to find that my brain won’t listen to me. Me: “With all this laying-around time, I could catch up on my reading!” Brain: “Nope. No books.” Me: “How about magazines? Lots of pretty pictures!” Brain: “Nope. No magazines.” Me: “Hey, we … read more My reluctant brain<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[318],"tags":[485,107,493,690,223,691,504],"class_list":["post-6659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-refraction","tag-aneurysm","tag-books","tag-brain","tag-movies","tag-music","tag-protection","tag-recovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6659"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8480,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6659\/revisions\/8480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}