Thursday, February 13, 2003

Medical technology is~~awesome. Big ol' machines that can peek into your very soul or at least one's creaky bones. Had me another Magnetic Resonance Imaging procedure this A.M. -- That would be an "MRI" for all you hep cats out there who know the jive talk. For dessert it was Radiology and having a couple pictures taken of my L-spine. Then finally, freedom.

You know the drill. Strip down to your skivvies, keep your shoes/sox on, put on a cute flowered gown. Lucky for me they also provided "robes" because there's no way I can tie the gown together in the back, and a view of my keister in sparkling white panties is not something other patients really want to see. The MRI is not something I like to do. The procedure takes about 20 minutes, in increments of 4 to 6 minutes, the tech tells you how long it will be. Each of these time travels are accompanied by horrendously loud noises. I identified one as what a jack hammer would likely sound like.

So you lie there, arms above your head, entombed in a white tube, with the "panic button" clutched in one hand. It is a bulb you can squeeze if the claustrophobia overwhelms you. I had no problem except for a few tense moments when one of my nostrils started to itch. I told myself not to be a wuss and it went away. There was a very cool breeze blowing down on me right smack dab atop the -- ahem -- personal area of my bod. Wasn't all that bad really but no thrill either. If this is supposed to distract a patient from the noise and the claustrophobia, it didn't work.
posted by Lorraine 5:11 PM 
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Wednesday, February 12, 2003

Yay for Housecleaning Day~~Don't know about you but I kind of like to sweep the page clean of all the old dusty stuff. I couldn't delete the sausage condom post, though. I mean, how often have you seen a rubber on a pork sausage?

So!! Everybody got their big old stash of food, water, medicines and first aid kit? How about plastic sheets and duct tape for all your windows? Be sure every inch of the window is covered, don't want any bio-hazard crap seeping in, now do we? I haven't gotten around to buying any extra bottled water, but I do have two cans of fruit cocktail and one of pineapple chunks hidden in a closet. I suppose that is probably not enough, eh? Actually, I have a feeling those cans be long gone before the terrorists drop in on us. OK, I guess that will be Sayonara for me, right?

Remember the hysteria after the anthrax scare? People rushing out and stockpiling antibiotics, buying gas masks.......*sigh*........What kind of mentality did it take to do that stuff? I could be wrong, but I reckon those dimbulbs would have done themselves more damage by overdosing on antibiotics (and how do people manage to get so much of that stuff?), or suffocating inside their gas mask. Well, at least stockpiling food won't be hazardous to their health......hehe. Of course, they could eat too many anchovies and run out of water too soon. But that's not likely. Unless you really like anchovies.
posted by Lorraine 11:29 AM 
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