My nuerologist Dr.Shakir (lovely man) was very understanding and said not to worry, and booked me to have another MRI, this time under sedation.
I was skeptical at first. The idea was to give me a tablet to help sedate me and somehow this would be ok and I'd be happy to lay in that machine for 15-20 minutes. AS IF. I'd previously been sedated via IV to have wisdom teeth out and that was awesome, I didn't feel a thing, in fact I hardly remembered anything. But the hospital don't do it that way. Nope. They give you a tablet.
So I went in, was given a bed/chair thing and waited. Whilst waiting I read the paper, talked to my Mother-In-Law (who came with) and just generally got used to the surroundings.
The bed/chair was a reclining thing and so I played about with it till I got comfortable, when all of a sudden the nurses come running in and asking me if everything was ok. Very confused by this, I said it was, and the nurses pointed out that I'd manage to activate the Emergency Panic Button. How embarassing!
Eventually the nice doctor came, told me what he was going to give me and said he'd be back in half hour to give them to me. He explained how it would all work and I was still skeptical.
30 minutes late a nurse returned with these...
Still skeptical....30 minutes later, as I'm being wheeled down to Imaging, almost killed twice. The first time by a huge trolley of clean linen and the second time by a big basin of dirty linen. 35 minutes later, I'm wearing a clean hospital gown, still skeptical, and then I'm giggling.
I mananged to have the MRI, it went well, I hardly moved, barring a coughing fit at the end, which they had to redo. I was in there for 20 minutes, and I didn't even notice it!
Aparantly I can even get my scan images on to a CD for £25, which I really am considering doing.
Follow up is July 6th, so I get the results then.
I'm no longer afraid of these!
Maybe one day my hubs will take those tablets and we can go on one of these!
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