Month October 2026

There is a trope in a lot of TV shows and movies where a character, usually side character or love interest, gets wounded, and when another character asks them how they are feeling, they inevitably respond with “it only hurts when I laugh” whereafter they chuckle then immediately grimace with pain. Apparently, there is some truth to the whole hurts-when-I-laugh thing, because when I awoke from surgery, I was in much better condition than I had expected, almost no ill effects from anesthesia – neither drowsiness nor nausea – and except for some mild discomfort, almost no pain. That is, … Read the rest