#contrecoup

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Thank you @forabeatofadrum for dutifully tagging me in this nearly every week. I *hides* haven't started writing the next chapter of Undiagnosed but it occurred to me this might be a fun opportunity to dust off the bits and pieces of stories that I've written but never finished (well, not yet).

The first one comes from an idea I had about Kurt having been the boy Blaine asked to the Sadie Hawkins dance and Blaine having a concussion from being attacked and not remembering everything that happened. The story would be called Contrecoup. Anyways, here's the beginning:

Objects in motion stay in motion, unless acted upon by an unbalanced force. It is Newton’s first law of motion. A fundamental law of physics. It’s the reason we wear seatbelts in cars. While the car stops when it hits something, your body continues to stay in motion, resulting in flinging your sad sack through the windshield without something to stop you from staying in motion. If you imagine the skull is like a car and your brain is like the driver, then you begin to understand what happens in the event of traumatic brain injury.

The head collides with a stationary object, causing the object in motion to stop quite violently. The brain, a rather squishy fellow, is an object in motion that stays in motion until something stops it. That something is going to be your skull. So the brain moves forward until it collides with the hard skull, bruising the brain tissue involved. This is known as the coup injury. If that weren’t enough, the brain then rebounds in the opposite direction just like the body slams back into the seat after finally stopping it’s forward motion. The brain moves backwards until it collides again, causing further damage. This is known as the countrecoup injury.

Emyr:C'était tellement bien j'ai pas les mots ! Non seulement tu écris ultra bien (ce talent !) mais en plus ton histoire a presque l'air canon (et ça c'est tellement génial et rare à trouver). Merci pour ce moment de lecture, je me suis régalé !