Brain MRI

I had my brain MRI yesterday. It's kind of like being loaded on a platform and being raised as an offering for alien abductors. You receive earplugs, fitted face mask, and are rolled into a narrow tube just like in the movies. What I didn't get from the movies are the series of VERY loud noises. First the jack hammer, then the wood pecker. Then it's like you are lying very still on the floor of a dance club - not that I would actually know what that feels like, but I have an imagination. The ground beneath you is vibrating and rumbling. The bass drum is pulsing. You are wondering if the machine is TRYING to give you a headache. There's the far away wrapping at a door - is this a test?? Am I supposed to get up and get that? Am I asleep? Then the resounding reverb BOOM BOOM BOOM. Again far away - tap tap tap tap. Calm paaaaaause. BOOOM BOOOM BOOOOM BOOOM.

I am supposed to be very still. Don't smile. Is that a test too? Are they testing to see if I have any sense of humor? Because it's kind of funny. Who made this magnetic NOISY machine? I remain still. I am a good patient. I keep my eyes close because I told them I'm not claustrophobic, but I could probably get rather irritated by the close quarters if I allowed myself to see how confined I was. Instead I'm lying under an open sky. There are color fireworks. I breathe in and out. I should have put a pillow under my back. I am not a back sleeper. I would never just lie on my back on a hard slab for 15 minutes. Be still relax you shoulders, but don't move. Is this almost over? It's got to be almost over. I'm so thirsty. I keep swallowing. The picture is going to be blurry because I keep swallowing. BEEP BEEP Is a big truck backing up? I hope it sees me here lying very still. Did those earplugs pop out of my ears? I hate things in my ears. I'll probably have a headache from the earplugs. The swooshing sound is constant. It's been there the whole time. It makes me think of a baby in the womb listening to it's mother's heart.

I finished the test. They didn't make me do it over. I have the images on a disk to bring to my neurologist. I'm not scheduled to see him for 3 weeks. I should probably see if I can change the appointment.