I wasn't mad or angry they pushed my MRI back so far... they explained that they had a couple of ER cases they had to take that pushed everything back. I can't really argue with that since at one point, they had to drag my broken-back self into that thing in an emergency and probably bumped a person or two.
Because of the fact that my MRI appointment was now at 9:15pm, they told me the only way for me to get into the building was thru ER. Tell the desk I have an apt and they would send the tech in to get me. I figured that would be the case. The ER at 9:00 is a pretty depressing place. I didn't have to wait long before 'Ders from Workaholics called me in.
From there, it wasn't as bad as I was thinking it would be. I signed some paperwork, put all metal objects into a locker and they put me onto the contraption that would feed me into the MRI. The cool part about it was that they had a set up where I could listen to music as the MRI was going on... thru sirius XM. The tech asked what type of music I liked and settled on Lithium station, which is the 90's Grunge/Alt station. So thanks to Kurt Cobain, Perry Farrell, John Popper, Zach De la Rocha and the dork from Eve 6 for keeping me at ease while that big magnet was doing its thing. I just hope the next person who used the MRI didn't have to go in headfirst... you know... because of nerves and stuff.
I tried probing the tech guy for what he saw, but he stood by his "I'm trained in using the machine, not reading the results" mantra. He did say that he notice some inflammation and other things that made it seem like something was up, but didn't know what it was. My follow-up consult with the ortho is on Tuesday so you'll hear from me then at the latest with how that goes.
I'm considering dusting off my twitter for short spurt updates since getting angry about sports teams is old hat now. I'm @bbowes81 and we shall see if that works at all.
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