I had an MRI of my brain today. Who says I don't know how to have a good time?
If you are claustrophobic, a cylindrical vessel into which your entire body is inserted is probably not the best place for you. I have been surprised to learn that I am not claustrophobic.
Then again, I also knew enough to bring my own DVD to watch. One of the techs was giving me a hard time. Insinuated my head was too big to fit in the "cage" with the goggles. "Well, it works with children," she said.
"I watched "Old School" last time I was here," I told her. "My head's not that huge."
So they put the earphones on me, pressed the cage into place around my head, and inserted the goggles through the cracks of the cage.
The movie I was watching was "Little Miss Sunshine." I have seen it before. Let me say that you should never watch a movie for the first time while having an MRI. Reason being that an MRI is LOUD. It is like having a jackhammer one inch from your skull. The subway is like a library by comparison. A 747, a Buddhist temple.
I asked the techs why MRIs are so loud. "Oh, it's when it sequences." Well, even I could figure that out. Doesn't answer the question why the inventors could not make it quiet. Do magnets make a whole lot of noise?
MRIs don't hurt you, except for your eardrums and maybe the pinch of the injection when they insert "contrast" into your vein.
I had so much fun I'm going back tomorrow for MRIs of my spine.
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Probably not a good idea to watch a comedy when you have to stay totally still. I remember rocking in my seat laughing at a few points in that movie. COuld they give you noise cancellation headphones, or would those mess with the scan? Next time you should wear a bikini and be like, "Oh, wait, this isn't the tanning salon?"
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