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To: Salamander

oh, an MRI can be other than boring.
Imagine you have lost your sense of balance, have an hellacious headache, are constantly nauseated, appear to be having thermal regulation problems... and as a consequence get slapped into a hospital.
Due to a comedy of errors (and it IS funny... NOW) you get diagnosed with terminal/inoperable brain tumor and slapped into the cancer "exit lounge".
Then you get an MRI.
You still have that headache, mind you, so that damned GNG!GNG!GNG!GNG!GNG!GNG!GNG!GNG! the machine makes is really horrible.
This goes on for 70 minutes.
THEN, the techs exclaim "THAT can't be right!" accuse you of having moved while being scanned, then lock your head in one of those "halo" abominations, and run it again.
oh, yes: MRIs can be ever so exciting.

btw: it yielded exactly the same results with "halo" as without.


77 posted on 03/19/2005 7:30:58 PM PST by King Prout (Remember John Adam!)
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To: King Prout

Being in the scanner isn't much fun, I can vouch for that. I hope I never get to wear the halo.


79 posted on 03/19/2005 7:35:53 PM PST by 95Tarheel
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To: King Prout

OMG...if that happened to you, you have my sympathy.

I hate to say this but I fall asleep during MRIs.
During my second one, I told the tech to stop waking me up just to inform me that the "sounds" were going to change.


The "open" MRIs are what bug me.
It hovers right over my eyes and I can't see much but I *can* see just enough to keep *trying* to see past the bottom of that stupid plastic helmet thingy.

*That* made me claustrophobic whereas the "tube" never did.




81 posted on 03/19/2005 7:37:04 PM PST by Salamander
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To: King Prout; Salamander
I didn't think the MRI or CAT scans I had last Novenber were boring at all! LOL

Mine were scheduled for 7:15am. I dragged feet into the clinic because I didn't get much sleep the night before wondering how things would turn out.

MRI specialist told me to lay on the bed and relax, so I did, and took a catnap for about an hour. I couldn't hear the loud noise it made, but I could feel the vibrations.

83 posted on 03/19/2005 7:37:57 PM PST by BigSkyFreeper (You have a //cuckoo// God given right //Yeeeahrgh!!// to be an //Hello?// atheist)
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To: King Prout
You still have that headache, mind you, so that damned GNG!GNG!GNG!GNG!GNG!GNG!GNG!GNG! the machine makes is really horrible.

Darkchylde can relate! :)

85 posted on 03/19/2005 7:40:19 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (Life support. canned, frozen or fresh, it's good for you!)
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To: King Prout
You still have that headache, mind you, so that damned GNG!GNG!GNG!GNG!GNG!GNG!GNG!GNG! the machine makes is really horrible.

My body just felt like it was vibrating afterward. LOL I fell asleep during my MRI scan. They had me all the way inside the tube with a little yellow night light at the end.

89 posted on 03/19/2005 7:44:07 PM PST by BigSkyFreeper (You have a //cuckoo// God given right //Yeeeahrgh!!// to be an //Hello?// atheist)
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