Congratulations! You are one amongst the few who decided to stick to this journey. Also congratulations to my sister for fulfilling nature’s duty by bringing a beautiful little lady boss in the house! For those who don’t know, procreation aka reproduction is every living being’s most important purpose….rest is just BS that life throws at you and you try to navigate life for survival.
On a lighter note, We are entering into a new zone this week. “The Backyard”……yes! Your backyard is where your spinal cord is situated. Think of your body as a large kingdom….much like the 7 realms of Game of Thrones. If the brain is the Westros you still have got remaining important realms like the Riverlands, the Vale, the Westerlands, etc. why do you need realms and separate rulers? Correct, to manage and coordinate the population properly. You have got your back and the spinal cord has got your brains back for the exact same reason! It helps the brain keep a tab on the distal ends of your body. They even have 2 separate systems….CNS and PNS. NS is for ‘Nervous System’…..the one which includes brain/cranium is “Central Nervous System” and one having the presence of Spinal Cord is “Peripheral Nervous System”. Let’s have an introduction to your body’s prime minister- The Spinal Cord.
The spinal cord, as the name suggests is around a 40-50cm long cord, running from the brain stem to the end of your back. Just like the brain’s protective covering- the skull, the spinal cord has 33 vertebrae forming a vertebral column. Have you ever felt that hard bony structure at the apex of your neck? That’s C1, Cervical vertebrae no.1. Followed by are the Thoracic, Lumbar, and Sacral parts of the vertebral column, ending with the coccyx your tail bone. This prime minister has got 31 pairs of spinal nerves. These nerves are spread across your whole body collecting information and or delivering orders. Guys! This Spinal Cord is not only slender and curvy but it is useful too! It’s like this hot and resourceful lady friend you’ve got(*wink*). The one who supports you no matter what, the one who has got high reflexes, the one who feeds your brain information and helps you grow. More about this beauty with brains(!) in the upcoming blogs, until then keep your head high and back straight!
Good that you are covering this, most of the readers, hopefully under 30, will need to be most careful about this "backyard" as that is what will be the first casulty to your life style. Unfortunately the corrective efforts will be very time consuming and may be painful.
Looking forward to the next episodes
Congratulations on the arrival of the lady boss.😍
Reading your blog got me thinking.. As the spinal cord helps the brain to keep a tab on the distal ends of our body so is it truth enough to consider that the spinal cord can work independently without receiving any signals from brain to perform any task? For instance, movement of muscles🤔🤔. It might sound vague but is it possible?
Quite informative Nupur!! Keep it up.