MRI

It's got to be one of the most totally freaky experiences of my life. The MRI machine looks intimidating enough from the outside, but try being stuffed into it. Talk about your claustrophobia!

It seems that the x-rays of my neck revealed that there's a deteriorated vertebrae in my neck, and the doctor suspects that the nerve leading into my right arm is being pinched by it. Unfortunately, the x-ray only shows bone, not soft tissue, including nerves. So off to the MRI clinic I went.

First off, I had to drive to the south end of Calgary in the middle of Rush hour. And if that wasn't bad enough, it was right through all the damn construction on glenmore trail. It took me an hour just to get there. But that was just the beginning. The fun part was yet to come.

I stripped down to my boxers, and then laid down on the table. The technician, ( a cute blond half my age) told me that I might feel just a little bit cramped in there. She wasn't kidding. It was really hard not to panic laying in that incredibly noisy contraption, knowing that extreme magnetism was scrambling all the molecules in my body just to get an image of them. Nice.

Anyways, tomorrow I'll find out the results of the MRI. The doctor told me that the worst case scenario was surgery. Wonderful. All I can do is keep my fingers crossed.