Yesterday I held the sphenoid bone in my hand.
It is the bone that you can feel on either side of your head, where your temples are. It forms the back of the orbit of your eye and has 2 sliver holes on either side where your optical nerves pass through. It is the bone that your brain sits on. Like a shelf. This is why if you get it knocked hard it can either be fatal or at least a knockout. It articulates with every other bone in the skull. every single one. It looks like a bird to me. My teacher likens it to a butterfly, Thalia in my class said it was a bat. It was the prettiest thing i’d seen in a while and I searched for pictures of it but couldn’t find any worthy of what I had seen so I’m posting an anatomy drawing. If you ever get an opportunity to look at a skull that has been separated into it’s many bones check out the SPHENOID BONE. It’s seriously gorgeous.
Oh and in inspirational news:
On sunday, I went to oswego to visit my family. I went up to see my gram, she had a stroke last year. So I brought up my massage cream and was just giving her some simple hand, arm and shoulder work. Like ten minutes each arm. I finished and she held up her left hand and looked at me all wide eyed and started touching her fingers together and said “huh….hey babe, that’s the first time i can feel my fingers since the stroke last year.” So I asked her to pick up my ring off the table and she could. So I worked on her hands specifically for 5 more minutes and we had her pick up a toothpick! Normally she has to sweep her pills into her hand because she hasn’t had any digital dexterity in a year. Can you imagine such a small amount of effort helping someone improve their quality of life?
cool stuff eh?
