Last night I had my yearly MRI. This was ordered by Dr. Oh, VCU Neurology in response to my new (google) diagnosis of Trigeminal Neuralgia. He ordered brain and spine, with and without contrast.
I made the appointment a month ago and 6:30 in the evening was the soonest I was able to get. I wasn’t happy because I drive myself and I can’t see at night. I asked Pete if he would take me as I wasn’t sure how long it would take. He wasn’t happy and questioned if I could get it at an earlier time, (like I didn’t think of that). Anyway, Mr. Calendar, (always telling me to PUT IT ON THE CALENDAR!) didn’t look at the calendar before he planned on going to NC for the weekend to paint and also putting off another week for my son and granddaughter to come visit. So I blew up asking, “DID YOU LOOK AT THE CALENDAR!” We had a fight where I continued to tell him how much I hated him and I’m not moving to NC with him and I wanted a divorce.
As usual he totally ignored everything I said and after a prolonged silence on both our parts, he calmly said he would’t go until Saturday morning and would take me. I said I didn’t want him to take me and I would rather him go cause I would rather have the weekend alone, he’s no fun anyway. Not addressing anything I said to him, which he never does. Something is wrong with this man. His excuse for not having fun or having sex is because he’s very busy and needs to get things done. I’ve been hearing this for 15 years, as he continually makes projects to keep himself busy. I’m always in a quandry as you’ll see by my next post.
Back to MRI. I called several times to see if I could get an earlier appointment including the day of the procedure. No luck. I came home from the garden ready to fall asleep. I was so tired. I decided to drink a Celcius, a calorie free, high caffeine pick me up. I planned on leaving early anyway, just in case. As I was leaving they called and said I could come in earlier, yeah! No problems, I’m very used to geting MRI’s. I was told the first part would be about 25 minutes. When asked, I opted for classic rock. What I got was torture. Easy listening classic rock covers! Because I’m a counter, I was estimating each song averaged about 2 minutes, therefore 12 songs would be about 25 minutes give or take, if anything they were longer and I would be surprised by ending earlier. This culminated with a cover of Queen’s, “Bohemian Rhapsody”. My God, could it get any worse, I was going nuts. Fortunately that was the 5th song and it was over. When he pulled me out he asked if everything was ok and I said how the music sucked and asked what I liked and I said heavier and originals like Led Zeppelin. He told me, “you got it.” I didn’t get it, he never put the speaker on the headphones. I just gave up and when the machine was silent I kept saying that I couldn’t hear anything. I debated pressing the bulb they give you in case of emergency and decided against it but I sure wanted to. Oh well. By the way, the Celcius worked great.
Lastly, I was in a hurry when leaving the place so I decided to exit where there was no traffic light. I always exit by the traffic light because you have to pass 4 lanes of traffic. It was 7 pm so it was still light out and I was trying to get home to watch the end of Wheel of Fortune so I could possibly win a $10,000 HSN shopping spree and another trip, (so stupid, I know) Anyway, I ended up waiting much longer than the light would have taken and when I finally pulled out, I was on the wrong side of the road! Thank God no one was coming in either direction, cops included, and I was able to go over the median and get on the right side of the road. Phew, that could have gone very badly.