Posted on 03/19/2005 6:26:21 PM PST by Servant of the 9
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there is so much guessing on this whole thing.
yeah, I got out with a good scare, great horror story, and some moderate hearing loss in the right ear.
beats the alternative all hollow ;)
The long & short of it is that my brain "riccocheted" around inside my skull and the frontal lobes were severely cut and damaged by some sort of "bony ridges" that are apparently inside your skull, in the front.
It's my understanding that that is where the olfactory bulb is located.
The other lobe/cerebellum damage was simply blunt force trauma to the right side/back of my head due to impacting on blacktop.
I dearly wish my sense of smell would return.
You can't imagine an odorless world....:-\
You're making me teary again.
Quit that....;)
It sounds like you're inside of a heavy iron barrel and some fool is pounding on the outside with a lead-shot hammer....and then the tone/rhythm changes *just* as you were getting used to it...;))
that's a pretty good description.
When I went to Navy docs about the brain checkups, they sent me to a navy -shrink-!
[no, I did not say "Hi. I need my head examined]...LOL!
It all got straightened out later but in the meantime, he scared the bejeebers out of me.
He was, without a doubt, the craziest person I'd ever met...especially since the medical wires had gotten crossed and he thought I was there for a mental problem.
Telling a shrink that you're there for something else and that you -don't- have a "mental problem" is the surest way to set up a circular argument.
they gave me no clay.
damned army docs...
I have met very few sane pshrinks
That's what's at issue. In the trial a claim regarding what the CAT scan showed was asserted but no challenge was made to it.
Since that initial trial, or should we call it a hearing, other technologies have been developed that are superior to what could be shown in that initial CAT scan, and other physicians have arrived at other conclusions.
Judge Greer has refused to allow such evidence into his court. It's almost as if he has no sensibility concerning the enormity of his decision.
The appeals courts have backed up the judge's handling of the case. Appeals courts don't deal in "facts", just process!
If this same sort of anti-scientific advance attitude had been allowed to prevail in Illinois there are a couple of dozen innocent men who would have been executed simply because the state Attorney General refused to allow a DNA test.
Almost seems unfair, but, of course, nobody here's a Democrat or a Liberal, so that's not really an issue.
I have a theory on that.
I suspect most of them enter that field in order to understand their own...uh..."peculiarities".
A high school friend did and I doubt she was singular in that respect.
Why not traffic court?
LOL! I had "good vibrations" throughout the whole experience. For me it was like laying on a vibrating table. The vibrations changed about part way through the scan. :)
some of FR's best work through the years has been done in this way -- we keep the best insights/observations, and table or discard others.
I want to know the address of *your* MRI location, then.
Obviously, out here in the boonies we've got a real bone-rattling lemon...;))
The MRI machine I was put into resides in the trailer of an 18-wheel rig. Trailer is white in color, and in big black letters it says "SIEMENS". In other words, it's a mobile unit. :)
save for later
We had one of those!
It traveled from place to place.
I "took a ride" in that one for the first two tests.
It wasn't that bad.
Then the medical test center bought a permanent machine and built a huge fancy building around it.
I distinctly recall thinking "ya gotta be kiddin' me!" when they told me that a tractor-trailer was where my test would happen....;))
I walked right by the tractor-trailer in the parking lot on the way into the clinic. (where I thought the machine was). LOL
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