Started my day fighting construction, and thankfully not traffic, to go to Aurora St Luke's (a different location from my normal Sinai) for my MRI. Sinai is getting a new MRI (handy down from St Luke's) and doesn't have a working MRI for breast imaging.
My visit started off a bit unfortunately ...
Good news... I figured out where to park and the walk wasn't too bad.
As for the injection ... they had to poke me with another needle. Apparently you can't use a port when you are laying on your stomach in an MRI. Last Tue when my port was being cranky and they couldn't use my port for my blood withdrawal, they had to take blood from my hand. My hand bruised pretty much immediately, and it didn't look pretty. With our wedding this Saturday, I wanted to avoid adding a new injection site with new bruises. As a result, they used Ultrasound to find a vein on the inside of my upper arm. Between that action my the med tech and arnica (major bruise healing natural root), I settled into the MRI in pretty good spirits. 1 hr in the tube and I was good to go. Not the most comfortable way to spend an hour, but also not bad. I find it much better to be face down than face up in the small tube. I also fell asleep for most of the hour. Those magnets sure have a way of putting me to sleep.
My visit started off a bit unfortunately ...
- Valet wasn't open yet, and I had a hard time figuring out where to walk
- They were unable to use my port for the contract injection
Good news... I figured out where to park and the walk wasn't too bad.
As for the injection ... they had to poke me with another needle. Apparently you can't use a port when you are laying on your stomach in an MRI. Last Tue when my port was being cranky and they couldn't use my port for my blood withdrawal, they had to take blood from my hand. My hand bruised pretty much immediately, and it didn't look pretty. With our wedding this Saturday, I wanted to avoid adding a new injection site with new bruises. As a result, they used Ultrasound to find a vein on the inside of my upper arm. Between that action my the med tech and arnica (major bruise healing natural root), I settled into the MRI in pretty good spirits. 1 hr in the tube and I was good to go. Not the most comfortable way to spend an hour, but also not bad. I find it much better to be face down than face up in the small tube. I also fell asleep for most of the hour. Those magnets sure have a way of putting me to sleep.
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