brain scan

last night i had an MRI. heatherfeather was kind enough to take me to the radiology place in her old lady car AND even got me a frosty from wendy's for which i forgot to give her money (i don't have a good history of this, you will recall from previous posts, however, this time i believe i only owe her $1.08). hf also got to meet nawa, the psycho puppy.

we got to the MRI place and i asked the lady if they could play my cure CD while I was in the tube because someone had told me that they did this. the receptionist laughed at me. i later understood why.

i was disappointed i didn't get to wear one of the buttless gowns for this thing. i just kept on my normal clothes. so that was kind of a bummer because i figured it would be an awesome photo op. all i had to do was take off my belt because of the metal.

so i layed down on the plank and they strapped my head down. i was told not to move. how am i supposed to moved when you've strapped my head down?

i learned that an MRI machine costs about $2.5 MILLION dollars....the accessories cost another $1 MILLION. the actual test costs $1250 to do, and then the radiologist who looks at the results get about $250. see, i'm a good business person, i totally checked out the financials on this!

anyway, now strapped to a plank, was was shoved into a tiny tube and the fun began. i just closed my eyes. MRI's are done in sets of pictures. each set has it's own sound, or beat as i liked to think about it. some of them reminded me of the paul van dyk concert i went to once. so i looked at the whole thing as a creative opportunity, since i have always wanted to be a techno DJ. it was like every five minutes i got a beat to play around it. but i can understand how the noise drives other people crazy i.e. people who don't like techno music like myself.

the whole thing lasted about 25 minutes. i got my belt back. heatherfeather and i headed south again in her old lady car. i needed a beer, so she dropped me off at the local watering hole. there i met bridget who had just been fired for drinking on the job. bridget's friend had a stroke last year and her mom "almost" had an aneurysm last year, and both of them are totally fine, so her thinking was that i will also be totally fine, since i know her.

outstanding logic, bridget.

well, our conversation was short-lived. i ended up chatting with a few south americans. i realized i really don't know a lot about south america or south americans, which is odd, since they're like right next door. i got all the other continents covered--asians, africans, europeans, even australians. admitedly, i do not know any penguins, but there was this kid in high school whose dad took him to antarctica, so maybe that counts.