A different way to spend an afternoon.

[smokingboot]

Well that was a mixture of interesting and unpleasant.

There isn't even anything wrong - I get headaches with these glasses, for which there are dozens of explanations including my lifelong tendency to cluster migraines. Transpires that this tendency has developed into a hyper-sensitivity to glare and to loud sounds, which would explain why I get terrible headaches almost immediately when kids start to scream at a certain pitch. I don't get this at gigs - it's not volume of noise that does it. It also means explains why,if I wear glasses with my back to a window, I get all kinds of peculiar reflections, which in themselves can trigger headaches. The good news is that the actual migraines have all but gone; I seldom get more than one a year, if that. It all makes sense, but they wanted to do a CT scan to make sure there wasn't something more sinister happening.

No-one told me they give you injections - it should have been injection singular, but the radiologist couldn't find a vein in my left arm, so having scrabbled around and made me grit my teeth and start to cry, she tried the right arm, and plugged herself in straight away. This is to get the dye in, so they can see what's going on. Then I lay there in this big clanging booming doughnut thing, and they took 500 photos, scanning the brain from top down.

Checking out this stuff afterwards was the only fun bit. It was so amazing to see my brain and my eyeballs from above! He didn't talk me through nearly as much of it as I wanted him to. Bone is white and brain is grey, I know that...it was the most odd thing, seeing what I think must have been the bones at the base of the neck!

I wish it was colour, but even black and white it was fascinating. MRI scans must be extraordinary.

Comments

[nyarbaggytep.livejournal.com]

ooh, the scan photos do sound fascinating.

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

I can't wait to get them!