Tuesday, March 6, 2012

I might be Spider Man

Except, I'm not a dude, I wasn't bitten by a radio active spider, and I do not have any of the skills a spider possesses... Other than that, I am exactly like Spider Man The radioactive substance was given to me intravenously and then I got to watch my organs glow on a screen while in a recumbent position in a nuclear medicine machine. Neat, huh? "Wow, your small intestine is lit up like the 4th of July!"- Nuclear Medicine Tech

Oooooh pretty! This is an image from someone else's scan.


Why, did I become radio active you might ask? Well, friends it started about a month ago. Almost to the day actually. On February 5th I started having abdominal pain. At first it was uncomfortable to walk, then it became uncomfortable to breathe and I called the advice nurse at my doctor's office. I was instructed to go the the emergency room. Getting there in and of itself was a tremendous task as I drive a manual transmission, and my darling roommate does not. When I got there they ran some tests and gave me some morphine. Nothing was solved, and I was told to come back if the pain came back after 48 hours... it did.

Over the last month I have been to the ER four times. On the 4th I demanded answers and was sent to a specialist who ordered my fancy super-hero-making test today. My powers include: laying very still, and charming the radiology department into buying me lunch.

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