Magnets and Radiation….

(Reposted from old blog)

So in response to me complaining about both chronic migraine headaches and back pains that rival the Great Wall of China in magnitude, my doctor had recommended I go for a head scan MRI and a back X-ray….did those today. And I hated it.

The X-rays weren’t bad, I had to don lead lined pants to protect the boys, but otherwise it was a lot of uncomfortable postures in front of a machine that kept irradiating me for the sake of diagnosis. But that came second, first came the MRI.

Now I knew ahead of time that these machines can be cramped, but I wasn’t prepared for having my head caged in and padded to immobility, nor did I anticipate the rather echo-y sound my panicky breathing made in the machine. Luckily I was given headphones or I would have completely lost it. I am in fact mildly claustrophobic and this was not my favorite adventure in the whole wide world. To make matters worse while listening to low quality music on the headphones I was greeted to a loud, abrupt Windows error sound and angry mumbles from the doctor running the machine. That definitely did not help my apprehension and I nearly aborted the scan right there. However I let him finish it and have shiny pictures of my head to show for it.

Speaking of, here are some of them: Scans of my head