Day 3275: A mandatory adventure.

 

 

"Confusuion": ink brush & digital collage.

 

 

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Update ...

A mandatory adventure happened this morning. I had a necessary MRI on my left shoulder in preparation for the upcoming surgery replacement, September 23.

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) utilizes large, strong magnetic field gradients and radio waves in a confined space to look at organs and structures inside your body. Health care professionals use MRI scans to diagnose a variety of conditions. In my case, so my surgeon can study before surgery.

 

 Making sure I had no metal, even my mask had to be replaced (since it had a strip of metal forming the bridge of the nose) and I had to sign. Then, I was given foam ear plugs, layed down on the table head first, a foam wedge under my knees, a kind of shoulder helmet on my left shoulder, and a warm blanket over me. Last thing, I was given a small panic bulb, in case I panicked. I am claustrophobic, but I had made it through for my right shoulder, so I knew I would be fine.

Once transported into the the inside of the tube, the noise started, even through the ear plugs, I heard really loud rattles, followed by loud repetitive machine gun blasts, then loud grinding and on to a loud sound of sawing. After each sound there would be wave of silence lulling me to relax before the next onslaught. My session lasted fifteen minutes. I asked the technician what the different noises were and he said it was the magnets?

And so it was done, another step in preparation for the surgery. I am anxious for six weeks to fly by.

 

 

 

 

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Just because ...

 

 

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