It's been a looonnngggg day. Had my MRI this morning and never thought it was really a pain in the ass. I meant that literally. As you guys know, MRI is this long cylindrical tube where you will be placed in supine position. It was ok, except that you are not allowed to move...at all. I did that for a gruelling 2 hours!!! arrrrggghhhh...but I have to do it for my own good. I felt I'm gonna have pressure sores on my butt! They gave me headphones so I wouldn't hear the noise (but I can still hear it). It was soooo noisy I felt I'm in a construction site or something. There was a drilling noise, all the noise that you can imagine! It also feels like there's an army squad continuously firing at my back, the vibration was really annoying. MRI doesn't have radiation, it uses magnets to bring out 2d images of my internal organs etc. Back to the headphones, I almost laughed when I heard the first song. It was Butterfly by Mariah Carey. Hahahaha.. followed by Love's Grown Deep (somewhere back in time...you became a friend of mine...ahihihi) and then followed by Cry by Mandy Moore and tons of love songs after that. I would prefer listening to rock if I'll undergo the same process again. It was funny hearing lovesongs amidst the noise and to think that I'm inside this tube. Good thing I'm not claustrophobic. Mind you, it feels like you're inside a coffin. But I had fun. Haha.. I almost fell asleep but I had to wake myself up. The noise suddenly became lullaby to my ears. They also placed this soft rubber on my left hand which they call the "Panic Button" that I can squeeze to alert them if in case I encounter a problem while undergoing MRI.
Kudos to my uber cutie nurse and doctor, they assisted me well enough. I was briefed twice about what MRI is all about, very courteous and they really know what they're doing. Hats off to the staff from Medical City. Two injections for this week. Waahhhh... They also had this thing called contrast so before the process, they already inserted a needle in the dorsal part of my right hand. They just injected the dye in the middle of the process. This is to distinguish if my nerves are affected. I was high for a while haha. Don't believe me. :P
I had my lunch there, I was so dead hungry hehe. Because I had to fast for 4 hours before the exam and my last meal was yesterday. So I devoured my Max's Spring Chicken Meal! Weee... It was like water in the desert. Good thing they have restos inside the hospital itself (cool..).
And then I went back to my doctor. After that I went to Shang to pay for my bills and some bank transactions. Met up with Fern, we went to this cool music store called TMV where you won't see any CDs around, instead, you'll see touch screen monitors and all the music's in there, you can just browse through and listen to it and once you find the CD or CDs of your choice, you can put it in your cart on the same screen! Once you're done, you can just go to the counter and your CD/CDs are ready =) Talk about coolness. No need to worry about shoplifters and whatnot.
Me
Fern
enjoying the music!
We also had coffee @ Starbucks (yippeeee!!! my stub's almost filled up, i'm gonna get the journal anytime soon!) And she treated me with this yummy Gingerbread cookie.. Gaaaadddd...it tastes like paper! a thick paper! I should have eaten a balikbayan box! haha.. but of course, it's still the most delicious cookie I've ever tasted coz aside from the fact that it's free, it came from my Gingerbread angel hehe.. I'm eating it now... reminds me of the movie Shrek :P
And here's the Gingerbread man's photo op with my Shrek buddies! Forgive me for including my favorite MOO milk glass.
So...that's it. Just watch out for my MRI playlist. :teehee:
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