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I had my MRI yesterday. The form I had to fill out asked if I could stay still for 50 minutes. I checked "unsure" because I've been having major muscle spasms in my mid back. When those go off, I can't stay still. He told me it would take about 25 minutes. Well, that seemed more doable.
The technician put a device over my neck to hold my head still. It was a bit large for me so the headset he put over my ears didn't quite cover them. He cranked the music up instead. I asked him for something new-age so I wouldn't be tempted to tap my toes. He had Yanni and Enya. I hadn't heard much of Enya before so that was my choice. I'm a bit wide for the carriage of the MRI and had to hold my arms up against my torso for the trip in and out of the tunnel. Once inside I was comfortable. He warned me for each five minute session of scans. From what I heard over the years I expected a lot of loud thumping as the electromagnets turned on and off. It wasn't like that at all. It was quite loud but it was more of a hum than thumping. The only frightening part was when the second to last set of scans suddenly sounded more like a dive warning on a submarine than a scanner.
I won't have the results until tomorrow morning when I meet with the specialist to go over them.
Well, gotta scoot! There's an intern tour of the Unitary wind tunnel at NASA this morning. I've wandered the abandoned one a bunch of times. Now I'm going to tour one currently being used! It's the one they used for the shuttle re-entry tests when that gap filler material was hanging out of the heat shield on the last trip.
Hope every one of you has a terrific day!
The technician put a device over my neck to hold my head still. It was a bit large for me so the headset he put over my ears didn't quite cover them. He cranked the music up instead. I asked him for something new-age so I wouldn't be tempted to tap my toes. He had Yanni and Enya. I hadn't heard much of Enya before so that was my choice. I'm a bit wide for the carriage of the MRI and had to hold my arms up against my torso for the trip in and out of the tunnel. Once inside I was comfortable. He warned me for each five minute session of scans. From what I heard over the years I expected a lot of loud thumping as the electromagnets turned on and off. It wasn't like that at all. It was quite loud but it was more of a hum than thumping. The only frightening part was when the second to last set of scans suddenly sounded more like a dive warning on a submarine than a scanner.
I won't have the results until tomorrow morning when I meet with the specialist to go over them.
Well, gotta scoot! There's an intern tour of the Unitary wind tunnel at NASA this morning. I've wandered the abandoned one a bunch of times. Now I'm going to tour one currently being used! It's the one they used for the shuttle re-entry tests when that gap filler material was hanging out of the heat shield on the last trip.
Hope every one of you has a terrific day!
