A Wholesome Day in Diagnostic Imaging
Today I had to go into the hospital for an MRI. From now on October will be the retesting month for any residual metastatic disease and to check on my kidney that is dying (oh yeah, my kidney is dying by the way). So far all the blood work has come back beautifully clean and the imaging is the next step to hopefully get some good news. So if you've had an MRI, you know that you can't eat or drink anything before. Which would be fine if I didn't get really bad headaches when I don't drink a lot of water in the morning. So I show up to the scan after fasting overnight and my head is really pounding. I go to the desk and asked the nurse if I can just have a small sip of water to get a headache pill down. She said that it would be okay but I had to go beyond the locked doors to get to a fountain and she would escort me. Cool. So we go past the locked doors and we enter into CT. There are people sleeping, people in hospital gowns, IV's being inserted, typical hospita...