Tuesday, June 23, 2015

MRI done!

Today I can scratch one more thing off my to do list, the MRI with and without contrast; I call it the glow stuff.
Mine is a yearly event with this thing we call MS, Multiple sclerosis requiring it for some reason.
The first couple of years I would joke it was to verify to my family and friends that I do have a brain, now it is to see if the disease process has progressed, but works as validation of also proof that I DO HAVE A BRAIN! HA! Fortunately, I have been stable for years, my lesions that is.
No one said anything different, it, my brain, still shows up in the dark and enlightened PICS, so I am good. (There is my no news is good news theory.)
Many people hate MRI machines due to their noisiness, or claustrophobia because of the close quarters or both. I do believe mine is an open one, odd how I forget with all the ones that I have had over the years, three just last year alone, and every year prior to that at different places, not to mention prior to my MS history needs a few more for other problems; concussions I seem to recall, ha.(That alone explains a lot, since I did have a couple of those.)
Hubby asked me since he does drop me off if it was an open or closed one, and I said I don't know, weird, since I really should.Why I am practically connoisseur of the machines.
And this newer place I goto these last two years has the higher tesla:  
http://www.3teslamri.net/
More vivid PICS I do believe.
I don't know if it's just me or not but they truly believe music playing into it makes the noise better?
To me it just seems like the percussion section is off the beat, ya know?  But who am I to judge, I am definitely not a professional musician or technician in the MRI field.

Any-who, I went into the pool early, at 9 A.M., the air temperature was already 85 degrees and so I accomplished my exercises with time to spare, since my test was scheduled for 12:45 P.M. and its only ten minutes from here so I relaxed before we had to leave.
Even so we were early, and I was out of there by 1:21 P.M., now I am good till next year!
During the test I had a personal glitch that I really thought was going to mean a do over. I had a spasm, but Dave the tech said he didn't know it or see it. 
Whew, I would hate to have to do it over for not holding still, which they repeat over and over...but I always smile.
I do know that it doesn't show up on the final films but what the heck, it's the spirit of making the whole thing a wee bit more fun than it is, ya know?
The techs play along when you tell them that you smiled and ask them if they liked it and ask for wallets. (size photos)

So on that note of whatever floats your boat, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know whom and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

 



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