October 8, 201213 yr So you missed a Bluegrass concert at home, but gained a K-Pop show abroad. Did you notice much difference?
October 8, 201213 yr Saw the orthopedic surgeon today about my shoulder and he sent me for x-rays and an MRI. He said that surgery will probably not be needed but I guess I will find out more on Friday when I see him again after the MRI and x-rays. The MRI experience was *not* fun and evidently I am still claustrophobic. Last time, I was in an open bore MRI machine, the one they use for obese and claustrophobic patients, and it was feet first (for my hip). That machine has a much larger bore. The one I was in today was a regular size. I didn't think about this (since I had a relatively good time last time) before they started putting me in the machine (telling me to breathe shallowly so it doesn't move the shoulder - yeah right). As I started going in, my eyes were open and I started freaking out and felt like a was hyperventilating. I closed my eyes and calmed myself down, telling myself that I could get out if I needed to. I survived, didn't scream, and didn't get out in the middle but it still wasn't fun. Back to the MRI for fat people next time. Also, how do large people fit in those things? I felt like I barely fit. Edited October 8, 201213 yr by shellylh
October 9, 201213 yr I had a brain MRI once and it was the same way --- kind of creepy. I remember thinking the very same thing. Yes, I could crawl out if I had to. I guess I held my head still enough. The pictures weren't fuzzy when the doctor pinned them up on the light box. And why the heck do they do THAT? The machine makes an electronic image and yet they print it out on old school-looking film.
October 9, 201213 yr And why the heck do they do THAT? The machine makes an electronic image and yet they print it out on old school-looking film. My doctor looks at them on the computer. That is funny. I don't understand how a person could stand to have a 90 minute scan in anything but the open or open bore. Shudders.
October 9, 201213 yr I had an MRI once -- I don't think I could have gotten out without the spinning part taking me out, it just plain felt dangerous. I presume you all were behind some sort of MRI-transparent but safe-enough-feeling material? I wasn't.
October 9, 201213 yr Just picked up my wife after an accident (she was not at fault and she's okay) and now we're trying to get all the phone calls/paperwork squared away. According to my wife, the other driver was very polite and admitted fault (along with two people who gave my wife their business card in case she needed a witness) so the insurance/repair should go relatively painlessly. I'm starting to think this car is cursed seeing as this is the third time in a year that this car has been in an accident.
October 9, 201213 yr Cars can be fixed or replaced. Good wives are much harder to come by. Glad she is okay!
October 9, 201213 yr Just sold the last piece of my headphone setup (Bel Canto DAC).... I shall miss having a reference system
October 9, 201213 yr Chris, I sold mine a while ago. Fortunately, I still have a reference system, my iPhone and JH13's.
October 9, 201213 yr Good way to look at it Mike. I have the Gamma2->AE-2 -> Ety ER4s at work and Creative Zen Vision M -> Pico Slim -> Ety for travel I guess. I'm just concentrating on what I am going to get with the money
October 9, 201213 yr *8 Make that 9, 10 or whatever we're at now. Glad she's ok Haj. Chris, as the little man gets a bit older you're going to have even less heapdhone time (until he's like 13) so I suspect you'll miss it even less than you think you will right now.
October 9, 201213 yr Glad she's OK Haj (it makes about 11 now) Shelly, I had a brain MRi once, many years ago when there weren't open type ones. The hard part was trying not to move at all for all that time, but I'm not claustrophobic.
October 9, 201213 yr @SP - Happy to hear she's not hurt. I can relate. Last year, my wife's car was rear-ended at high speed. She was fine, the car was totalled.
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