did the CT scan earlier today

Did the CT scan earlier today.  Drank the “smoothie” thing last night like I was supposed to and like I said in a comment it wasn’t that bad.  The thing I had to drink this morning was worse, not quite bad enough for me to kinda gag on it but was close.  At least I got to dilute it in some water and at least it was only 8oz of liquid total I had to get down.

Got to the hospital and they did some stuff on the computer then gave me a gown and showed me where the men’s locker room is.  I went to put the gown on and it was way too small, basically didn’t close much and was more like a toga on the top and kinda had a flappy that covered the front but one of my legs was mostly showing and uncovered.  Luckily she said to keep my underwear on.  I couldn’t decide if they just retardedly had one size gown that was too small or if she had looked at my 250 pound ass and decided to give me a small anyway even though they have bigger one so I figured I’d see what happened.  The dude came to take me to the CT scan and he started to say where we’re going or whatever and then goes, “Let me tight that gown” and he steps towards me and then before doing anything says, “That gown is too small.”  Yes, yes it is, good eye.  Anyway, he gave me a bigger gown and off we went.

The machine for giving you a CT scan looks like some kind of SciFi device, like you lay down and it does stuff and somehow tells your future or they put the sick person in the contraption and it somehow heals their near death wounds in like a matter of hours or something.  Anyway, their’s a slab thing that you lay on that can be moved up and down and forward and back automatically.  The slab takes you though the center of a big SciFi doughnut thinger that does the actual scanning.  I lay down and they put an IV in my arm and hook it up to a twisty tub (same style as a corded phone receiver’s wire). The tube is attached to two large syringe reservoir looking things about the size of coke cans sticking out of a box that looks similar to what dentist’s x-ray things look like, fully articulatable.  When the machine was in full swing I was able to look at the tub and see when stuff was flowing and when it wasn’t and it looked like it wasn’t a regular just drip style IV, it was pushed at specific times syringe style.

After that I guess the dude setup zones on my body of where it needed to scan because he was standing at the panel setting something up and then went to the computer in the little side room and the machine started automatically moving the slab forward and back through the donut part with a semi-robot voice saying “hold your breath” and then it would move and stuff inside the donut that I could see through a little window running around the hole inside of the donut would be spinning around me inside the donut and then it would say, “breath.”  I didn’t know exactly when they were doing the x-ray stuff and when they weren’t, I think they only said to hold my breath when they were doing my chest and for the first part they did my chest, abdomen and pelvis, so I couldn’t get a good handle on when the thing spun around me and when it didn’t (whether it was doing x-rays as it spun or doing something else).  For the first part I had my arms above my head.

Next up was my neck, the tech adjusted the pillow and centered where I was looking (though it felt like I was looking slightly to the right) and my arms where laying on my stomach.  It did some moving of the slab and the thinger did some spinning inside the donut.  Then I thought the world was fucking up and I had vertigo or something.  Freaked me out until I realized it was just the donut tilting, then I thought, “hopefully it doesn’t rotate too far and snap my legs. heh”  Did some more moving of the slab and did some more spinning of the thinger and then I was done.  The dude said it would take about 20 minutes.  I don’t have a good grasp on time if I’m doing nothing but that seemed about right.

Where the IV was in my arm hurt slightly. When I took the taped on gauze, check out the picture below.  The weird lumpiness was from the tape.  Don’t know if it got purpler later or if the picture just shows it as less purple but on my arm it looks more purple.

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2 Responses to “did the CT scan earlier today”

  1. Intuit says:

    From what I’ve seen those gowns are always at least two sizes toooo small. Next time ask for two; wear one backwards and the other forwards and that should cover it. 😉 ….either that or tie the second one around your waist. Yeah they’d probably gripe but hey… who’s the patient eh ?

  2. bLOB says:

    heh, ya, the second gown was fine, but ya, I have seen that. I think they had me wear two like that when I had my hernia operation, since you can’t wear underwear under he gown when they’re working right there.

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