scanned and waiting

Friday afternoon:

I'm early to the scanning company so I sit in the car for a bit. Parking on the road so I buy a parking ticket. Later I find that there is a patient parking area round the back. Oh well... next time...

This crowd have free & convenient parking. (Well, I hope it's free.) They are in an office off the main road rather than inside a hospital. They don't ask for a pre-scan blood test for kidney function -- unless I know I have damaged kidneys. They do a relatively quick injection of "contrast" rather than leaving me with a cannula in my arm for the entire scan. All good :-)

Time passes... I leave the car and go into the waiting room. Very peaceful, just three of us patients. There are more staff than visible patients. The joys of coronavirus!

I sit down, fill in the usual forms. As I look out the window -- rain pelts down. I'm still a bit early but it's just as well I'm already inside :-)

Into the MRI room. After a visit to the toilet, of course. As I step into the MRI room the tech says, Mind the slope. There's a slight slope up to the door. On the way out I ask, Why a slope?

It seems that the room was originally just, a room. When the MRI machine was added they also added a layer of... lead? ... to the floor. Either that, or the MRI would have tried to rip the reinforcement metal from the concrete floor. Aha!

My head is fixed in place, immobile. I slide into the "tunnel" and the scan begins. The scan is as noisy as ever.

On the way out I ask if the scan will be analysed that afternoon. If it is, I can get the results today. No, not today, the specialist in brain scans is not in today. So, I'll wait over the long weekend. But see later.

After the scan I drive into the city to pick up Deb. It's a bit early so, I decide, I will buy a cup of coffee on the way... Ha! as if!

I don't want to go all over town but I know of several cafes on the way. And they are all closed. Not for coronavirus, just closed for the afternoon. Bummer.

Friday night:

It's not the cancer doc who would have given me early access to the scan results, it's "an unnamed informant". No analysis, so no early access.

But... later: My informant can look at the pictures. He comments, "So take this with the world's most massive grain of salt, but comparing today's images to last time things look pretty similar. I take no responsibility if I'm wrong, though!"

That's good enough for a more relaxing weekend :-)

Next week: the truth... Well, the official and more experienced analysis, anyway. If all else fails, this latest reveal will be with the cancer doc, Thursday.

Till then at least, all good :-)

Dr Nick Lethbridge / Consulting Dexitroboper

...        Agamedes Consulting / Problems ? Solved

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