MRI Day
Things that made me very happy today:
1. Seeing a few snowflakes flying around in the air all morning long.
2. Turning on the radio in Henry's room just as "Hawaiian Roller-coaster" from Lilo and Stitch was coming on. Great song, even if it's a kid's song. Henry and I danced.
3. Having breakfast for lunch at Perkins.
Things that made me very unhappy today:
1. Getting an MRI.
It was absolutely miserable. Thank god it was an open MRI because even that was not easy. I probably would have had to have been sedated for a closed MRI. I was very close to panicking the first four or five minutes and although the technician gave me a button to press if I needed to get out, I figured that doing so would just prolong the inevitable so I tried to breathe through it and stay calm. They give you headphones and pump music in to take your focus off of the loud noises the machine makes. I figured I needed as soothing music as I could possibly get so I requested classical. As soon as I was moved under the machine, the most riotous, loud classical music you could possibly imagine came through the earphones. If there's such a thing as hard rock orchestral renditions of classical songs, I think that's what I got. The technician pulled me out to give me an injection of contrast for the last fifteen minutes of the scan and I was never more happy in my life to be stuck with a needle, except for when I was in labor. Actually I spent a lot of the scan debating which was worse, an MRI or labor. The MRI won out but only because at least when you're in labor you can move around if you want to. They brought Dave and Henry into the observation room to see the magnet, and he gave the technician his contact info so that he could bring him to Bucknell to show him the 600 MHz magnet they got over the Fall. So yes, while I was suffering, Dave was having a grand old time, chatting and networking.
I'm so glad that's all over. Tonight, we go to Friendly's for sundaes. They better break out extra cans of whipped cream and fudge, that's all I have to say.