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calimacIt stands for "magnetic resonance imaging." I knew that.
What I had not known is what the machines are like, having never been near one before. But I have now. I was not in the machine being imaged by it, but I was seated in the scanning room while it was operating, having first, by instruction of the attendant personnel, taken the precautions of inserting the expand-into-place plastic earplugs, and removing all trace of potentially magnet-friendly metal from my person.
The machine looks something like an oversized 1950s canister vacuum cleaner, and when it's operating it makes noise. Very loud noise, but intermittent, not continuous. It sounds like a cross between a Dalek, a truck in reverse, and a malfunctioning washing machine. Occasionally it resembled the music of some hyper-modernist composers, possibly from Darmstadt, whose names I have thankfully forgotten.
I am not generally subject to headaches, but this was almost enough to give me one.
What I had not known is what the machines are like, having never been near one before. But I have now. I was not in the machine being imaged by it, but I was seated in the scanning room while it was operating, having first, by instruction of the attendant personnel, taken the precautions of inserting the expand-into-place plastic earplugs, and removing all trace of potentially magnet-friendly metal from my person.
The machine looks something like an oversized 1950s canister vacuum cleaner, and when it's operating it makes noise. Very loud noise, but intermittent, not continuous. It sounds like a cross between a Dalek, a truck in reverse, and a malfunctioning washing machine. Occasionally it resembled the music of some hyper-modernist composers, possibly from Darmstadt, whose names I have thankfully forgotten.
I am not generally subject to headaches, but this was almost enough to give me one.
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Date: 2012-03-28 02:00 am (UTC)PS -- if you were accompanying someone to the MRI, I hope their results are good.
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Date: 2012-03-29 05:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-29 06:18 pm (UTC)Mostly, I napped -- it's the easiest way to deal with most uncomfortable things, and it's not like I had much else to do.