Friday, May 1, 2009

back to the source

During the day I get a call from the hospital that my MRI was on a wednesday, i said my next appointment at the radio clinic was wednesday. She then said I call you back. Later she calls and say keep the MRI at ipoh at 8 and reschedule the radio. The MRI appointment was as usual a precious item, ie highly overbooked, don't miss it. She says the the radio will call you back.

I decide to stay at a hotel as it will cost almost as much to go home and come back but wake up at 5am or something. Next day I go straight to the hospital. I go to neuro to hand the letters. I wait, I wait, it's 8. Where is everyone. I sneak a peak to find a doc and find one. It just happens to be the doc I was supposed to see. I hand the letters and my appointment card and get the MRI letter and go to the imaging dept.

I go to the MRI area and change to the usual patient garb but get to keep my underwear. Funny, I happen to be wearing underwear today, its not the usual case. I mention the metal screws so they spend the next 15 minutes trying to get the metal detector working ie find the misplaced batteries. Eventually they just take the neuro's word that it's MRi safe and send me in.

It's nosy in the machine. After a while I get out but the doc says waiting a minute, injection time. Damn I thought I wasn't going to get the contrast. Lucky I didn't know otherwise I would have been anxious all day. But I sucked it in. I was a little uncomfortable as usual. Then back in.
Another 15 mins then it was done and get out.

I go back to the neuro and was told to deliver the other letter at the pathology dept. After handing that over I was done.

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