Love, it's the wave I ride that won't ever reach the shore, overwhelmed by the tide and wanting nothing more, tonight, than to take this time and make it all mine. It's comin' around again. Every now and again sometimes I get lost on the wind of a dream, the air gets clean and the seas get wider and I can do anything. The pain it won't even cross my mind and it's a wonder, and everyday the rope gets loose and the chains unbind me and I can do anything.Lyrics by M.A.E.
I'm up late reading about chest and abdominal pain, listening to mae(multisensory audio experience) and some other great music. i also love the songs "mistakes we knew we were making" and "painless". had an interesting case saturday morning of a woman with seizures and posterior dislocation of the shoulder... reminded me of the value of pain in terms of bringing people to the hospital. (i would never say this to a patient in pain!) there's a lot i could say about pain, it is one of the most interesting topics for me in medicine. i must say i feel underqualified to discuss it in a sense, not having experienced very significant physical pain myself. i've never had major surgery, trauma, appendicitis, i guess the most serious disease i've had would be asthma, for which i have never been hospitalized. there is a really good chapter called "the pain perplex" in a book called "complications: a surgeon's notes on an imperfect science" by atul gwande. i know some of my friends have read it, anyways it is a fascinating study.
anyways, how did i get from love and the ocean to pain?
2 comments:
good topic. love and pain definitely go together I think. Both cause one to wonder, and to fear--- yet both bring us to places so human and real.
I was reading the lyrics and thought you wrote them... guess not. oh well. they're nice.
You are smarter than me. That is all I have to say.
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