I'm still having trouble with what we've been calling "leg spasms". They usually get worse as the day progresses. Sometimes they're bad from the morning on. My neurologist decided that I should have 2 more MRI's (it was only going to be one, but I'm starting to get tingling in my hands - both of them - so now it's two).
But... she decided to have a different look, and sent me for a Stand-Up MRI at a facility in Deerfield.
Well, it wasn't stand-up - it's actually recumbent.
That's not good - Problem #1: sitting aggravates the leg twitches.
The machine was huge, HUGE! it sits on a 3-foot thick concrete slab under the building. The magnets are to each side of the device, so you walk into it and sit down.
Problem #2? My shoulders are wider than the sitting area, so I have to roll them forward to fit.
I was so uncomfortable. This was so much worse than the others I had... It's hard to attempt to sit still when you don't have control of your body.
Problem #3? Because I twitched so much, some of the scans had to be re-done, and the two hour estimate suddenly became three.
Problem #4? Because of the several twitches, there *is* movement in the scans. Not good.
Any positive things? Well, the machine was significantly quieter than the other GE lay-down types. On the far wall that you face while sitting in the machine is a large plasma TV. You have the option of watching movies while being scanned! But, instead, the tech was watching The Simpsons on the local Fox affiliate, so that's what I watched (Simpsons, Malcom in the Middle, Simpsons, Seinfeld...House)
It is extremely weird sitting in an MRI and watching House on TV. VERY weird.
Problem #5 - I have an extremely sore shoulder/upper right arm. I can barely move my arm... something about being wedged in this thing for three hours... wasn't great.
Hope the scans are good and show something.
2008
2005- Wolves 5 - Rivermen 6 - Preseason
2004- White Sox 5 - Royals 1 - Final Home Game
2003- "A Foreign Affair"
- Good Bye, Uncle Babe
- No Friday Five
2002- Survivor Thailand - Episode 2
- Last Home Game