MRI at lunch time == NAP TIME!!!

June 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I had my spinal MRI at 1pm yesterday which was a prefect time for a 1.5 hour long nap. MRI’s are weird things. It’s like being a baby during a long drive in a car seat. It vibrates like a car. You can’t move around like a car seat. And for a bonus, you get warm. It’s all the ingredients required for a lovely lunch time nap except for two things:

The nice MRI tech that keeps asking you if you are ok.
The injection half way through.

The nice MRI tech didn’t feel comfortable hitting my vein so she brought in two additional people to give me the injection. Each took an arm and started poking around. The gave up and used the one I have left. I threatened to be a very unhappy customer if they collapsed it. Lucky (and for their sake!), they went very slow and it’s still intact.

In other news, I finished my first full week of Copaxone and started rotating back through my sites. The worst site reaction last week was in my left leg. Today I did the left leg and again, bad! I wonder if my left leg hates Copaxone. The left leg should chat with the right and get some rotating site reaction schedule. This week, it’s the right legs turn. Next week, it’s the left legs turn…

It is going to be a very busy week. I am meeting Tom’s kids for the first time tomorrow! They are 5 and 7 yr old boys. We have some things planned including a night at the Great Wolf Lodge! I am going to fly to Montreal and meet Tom’s Ex-wife on Saturday and then we are going to go down to Boston for a couple days. I am way excited (well, at least about Boston! )

Anyway, it’s finally getting warm in Seattle. I should get a pretty good idea of how I will do in Europe after this week where temperatures are in the 80/90s.