MRI

So my MRI was an adventure all in itself... My appointment was at 12:30PM, so I worked in the morning for a couple hours before hand. Then it was off to the surgical center!



I went in and got this snazzy bracelet. But I first had to sign away my life pretty much. No suing, and I might get an infection and DIE. And I had to sign that I would pay a stupidly ridiculous amount of money to get it done...



Who's excited to get their vitals taken!? Ok, I wasn't really excited. But they took my blood pressure, which was about 15 points higher than it normally is...nervous much!? hahaha So then I got into my hospital gown and waited for the nurse to come back in...



Then they marked me to make sure they got the correct hip. At least it wasn't like an amputation where it would have been devastating if they got the wrong leg...



OK. THIS is where it gets "exciting". So they wheeled me into a sterile room with a large, cold table. I got up and layed down and they started to get me set up. They exposed my hip and cleaned it off with some iodine. They chatted me up to make sure I wasn't too nervous...but I knew the drill. Then he marks me and kinda numbs up the skin a bit. That was nice, because then he pulled out a freakin SIX INCH needle. Yeah. So he stabs me with it and is trying to find the right place to inject the dye which isn't TOO bad...until he JABS me in the bone! Honestly, I jumped an inch or so off the table. It hurt so bad! I was tense the rest of the time. He kept remarking on how my hips looked normal to him...I'm like "great!" So he finally injects the contrast dye into my joint so the MRI will pick it and pulls the needle out.

Then they wheel me down to the MRI. And I saw my old neighbors there! I was like great...I looked like CRAP but it was nice to see them! :) So when I get there, he hands me a list of music and I looked at it and decided on Maroon 5. They didn't have much of a selection, so I decided that I would pick some music I could rock out to a bit.

They load me up on the MRI and strap me in. I wasn't too nervous about being in there. Thankfully it was only my hip so I didn't have to go all the way inside the machine. So they put on the headphones and he laughs and tells me not to dance and I laugh and say that I won't. He tells me that I should still hear the machine spinning and clanking even with the music on, and that if he asks me a question while in there, that they have a mic and not to yell..haha

So in I go and he puts on the music and it's getting into the first song. Yeah. Anyone out there have the "Songs About Jane" album by Maroon 5?! Well, in case you don't, the VERY FIRST SONG has a lyric that goes, "is there anyone out there 'cause it's gettin' harder and harder to breathe." Um, that seriously made me have breathing issues! I had to tune out the lyrics and just focus on my breathing!

So I'm just waiting for it to be over with and every once in a while they stop and move the table and start it back up again. This went on for 7.5 songs. Yeah, I began counting the songs instead of listening to the words. I get nervous just thinking about it...haha



Oh gosh I was so happy for it to be over! They wheeled me into the dressing room where I could put back on real clothes, but thought I would take a pic in my hot hospital gown first...hahaha



There was the finished product. I had to wait almost two weeks to find out the results! Even then my doctor disagreed with what the radiologist said! Big surprise. The radiologist said there was no abnormalities while my orthopaedic surgeon said there was some tiny fraying in the lining of my hip socket. He then told me that since there are no significant tears at this time, surgery is at my discretion and that I shouldn't wait long to get it done for the risk of osteoarthritis. He told me that if it becomes too painful to sit through, say, a movie that would be a good indication that I should have the surgery.

So...that point has come. I can't concentrate in class and my grades are suffering :( ... I go in this upcoming week to talk to him about scheduling the surgery...so this should be fun...