In Which My Back Now Hurts

Posted by admin - 19/06/08 at 05:06:47 pm

The Endocrinologist who wanted me to get the MRI called in a prescription for a sedative for me so that I could be calm when I had the MRI done (because the last one I had done didn’t go so well for me). Well, I picked up the medication with all my other meds so I didn’t really look at the bottle. All I knew was that it was a generic sedative.

So today was my MRI. Because it was scheduled for 7pm, I was to stop eating and drinking at 3pm. Yeah. By 3:15pm, I was sooooo thirsty. Never mind that at 2:30pm, I had drank 3/4 of a gallon of water. According to the radiology department, I could take my sedative with a small sip of water.

I had to be at the hospital for the MRI at 6:30pm to fill out the necessary paperwork, so Nathan came and got me at 6pm and away we went. Before he picked me up, I realized I should take a sedative. I looked at the tiny pills. There were 10 of them. Why 10? I mean, I was only doing this MRI one time. Did I need more than 4 pills? So I took one pill, then debated taking the bottle with me just in case I needed another one, but I decided against it. Yeah, that one pill really didn’t do much. I checked the dosage when I got home and each pill was only .5 mg so I really should’ve taken 2.

As it was, this MRI wasn’t as bad as the first one. The thing with the MRI isn’t that I’m encased in the tube like a sausage. That part actually didn’t bother me. What bothered me was the constant machine-gun fire sound. This MRI still had the sound but it was sporadic. The MRI Tech did the imaging in spurts so I had bits of silence in which to relax. The one odd thing was that I didn have to hold my breath a lot. Which wouldn’t have been so bad had I been on my stomach or if my head/torso been a bit more inclined. But lying flat on my back with my arms above my head sort of squished things and made my sinuses all weird so breathing wasn’t easy and then they wanted me to hold my breath on top of that? Difficult. Luckily, I only had to hold my breath 5 seconds at a time. Unluckily, I had to do that about 20 times.

After about 50 minutes, we were completely done and I was able to go home. Except lying on that table in one position for 50 minutes without moving somehow tweaked my back a little so now I’m having little muscle spasms in my lower right back. It took me forever to get out of the hospital because I had to shuffle like a little old lady.

Once we were in the car, I convinced Nathan to let me treat him to dinner since he ferried me around so we ended up at a Chinese restaurant near the hospital. Nathan had fish, I had mu shu pork, and we split salt and pepper calimari. Mmmm….

Now I’m home, showered, the dog has been walked, and I’m ready to go lie down and watch Olympic coverage (recorded courtesy of my new DVR that I picked up this morning!).

Bingo Karazhan

Posted by admin - 15/06/08 at 09:06:40 pm

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