M - R - I can't believe it took that long!

Oh my god that was the longest MRI in my life!  Then again its the only one I ever had.

So on Sunday I went in for my MRI.  We got in there at 7:30 and waited.  8 PM came and went and still I waited.  Finally the nurse showed up and took me to get me prepped.  I asked how long it would take and he said "oh about an hour" so I send the guy and kids off to be back later.   I had to strip down to my undies and put on a lovely pair of hospital pants and a really large gown. It was not a good look for me.  I got weighed and told please stand by.  At about 8:45 he finally came for me to do the scan.  He strapped me in and got me comfortable and it began.  I was given a pair of earplugs as the machine was rather loud.  To me it went really fast.

The nurse then came back in and prepped me for the second part of the scan.  They needed to inject a special dye into my vein to travel into my neck.  And thats when everything fell apart.  The nurse put the needle in but as he taped it down well didn't the damn thing pop out of the vein.  He tried again...wouldn't you know it, do you think he could find it again?  Not a chance.  For the next hour 4 different nurses tried to find a vein.  They tried on the inside of my arm and on the outside of my arm, and in my hand.  They then switched to my other arm.  They poked and poked and poked.  I felt like human pin cushion.  Finally they gave it one last kick at the can and came up a winner. All told there are 8 different spots where the needles went in.  My poor arm is a lovely shade of black and blue.  Finally they were able to finish the scan and I was on my way.  In the end I had been in the scanning room for a total of 3 hours.  The people booked after me were not thrilled.   All they knew was that there was a patient being uncooperative.  Little did they know it was my veins that didn't want to cooperate.

Pictures to come soon.