Less than 24 hours after being eliminated from play-off contention, guess what I got in a DHL Express packet today?

Yep.

My playoff tickets.

Bastards.

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.