Ken and I both had doctor appointments this morning. His was at 8am and mine was at 9:30am. I dropped Cody off at school which I absolutely love doing I drove over to Ken's appointment and he was already in. I asked if I could join him and they said no. What?? That was a huge turnoff. So I sat in the lobby and waited. I figured if Ken didn't get done by 9am then I'd just head on to my appointment by myself. Luckily he was done at 9 so we drove back to our house, jumped in one car and headed to my appointment. As soon as we got there my nerves set in. I updated my paperwork and my heart was beating a mile a min. This can't be good for my blood pressure. Speaking of blood pressure. Ken's was high today. How can his be high? He got blood drawn. I'm getting an IV while hanging out in a tube for 20 min.
So they call me back and I have to say, I was super duper nervous but my MRI technician had a great sense of humor. She knew I was crazy nervous and helped me through it by cracking some great jokes. Ken was with me in the "transition" room. I undressed and sat down while she was prepping my right arm for the IV. I just hate needles. Especially ones that hang out in my arm. But it's better there than in my hand. OUCH! So she did a pretty quick job getting the IV set up. She made sure both Ken and I had no metal on and took us back. I really didn't look at the machine. Just got in to position. Then they covered me with a few blankets. Ahhh....nice and toasty. So I was lying face down, arms were above my head, face in a padded area which later turned out to be really annoying. She put the earplugs in and slowly rolled me in to the machine. Everything was good until she rolled me in. All the sudden I got major vertigo. How is that possible? I had my eyes closed the entire time. Uggh, the test is about to start and my head is spinning. I got to get this under control.
Luckily I did get a grip. I really didn't want to stop the procedure.
So last night, I spent a good 1/2 hour listening to music that I thought would be good songs to keep in my head while I was laying in the MRI machine. In fact I had one song in my head so well that every time I woke up last night I would sing myself asleep. Wouldn't you know that while I was laying there in the machine that that one song didn't pop in my head one time. In fact the beeping noises made me forget every single song I listed to last night. All these other random beats popped in to my head. It was like I was in techno hell.
Not only was I jamming to techno, it seemed like I was swallowing every 5-10 seconds. Sheesh, dry mouth? What's up with that. Then for some reason I was blinking. How do you blink with your eyes closed? It felt like my eyelash got inside my eye and every time I blinked my eyelash would annoy my eye. What in the world is going on? Am I doing these things cause I can't move and my brain is making other parts of my body spasm.
22 min over! Thank goodness now I can focus on my annoying eye and whoa! Vertigo. What the heck? The MRI tech helped me sit up. I had to focus on the wall to get my head to stop spinning. I must be dehydrated. I got up, got dressed and drank some water. I'm so exhausted. I must have over worked myself and now I'm just worn out.
Ken and I grabbed lunch and headed home. I laid down for the rest of the afternoon. I needed the rest. I wasn't afraid of the actual test, I'm just afraid of the results. I hope there's nothing there. I believe there isn't but it's better to be safe than sorry.
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