Thanks for the comments and e-mails about the MRI -- as I said below in the comments section, it was pretty routine. I didn't expect the radiologist (I guess that's what he was) to make any comments, and he didn't. They did an IV for the dye, but that one collapsed when he started to put the dye in, so they had to use the other arm. He joked that it was a good thing I wasn't trying to shoot up anything because I had no veins. But it went smoothly, if not a little boring. I think I may even have napped, in spite of the weird lasery-clicky noises the machine makes.
I have to say I started to laugh right before because they have all of these questions to make sure that you in NO WAY POSSIBLE have anything metal in your body. And I know people forget things over the years, or forget that something actually was a metal item (like a wire mesh thing for a hernia), but really -- the near ferocity of the questions started making me paranoid that I secretly had pins in me that they knew about which were going to fly out of my body like Wolverine's (XMen).
Carl had more good news on the new business today -- it now seems extremely viable (this from the attorneys and someone who's at the very top of the place that had hired the Florida people... they're fed up with those people and want to phase them out, but didn't have a viable second option, so we may step right into all their work without real competition.) Even if that doesn't happen that simply, everyone seems to think it's viable. I'll probably not say much more about it until it's fully up and running. (I mean, really, you'll all kill me on the up and down ride of starting up a new business, right? Because it will take about two months to be fully operational, and I imagine some hiccups along the way.)
It's a gorgeous day - I'm going to go sit on the swing with my laptop and write. I know I have office work, but to hell with it. I need a mental break from the not-sleeping and imagining myself as a female Wolverine. (Now that, let me tell you, is a scary thought.)
Posted by toni at April 27, 2004 02:37 PMThey are very serious about that metal business. I've heard a story aboutr a guy who had a tiny metal fragment in his eye - just a particle, probably from work - and when he went through the MRI it moved and blinded him. Could be an urban legend though.
Posted by: Amanda at April 28, 2004 10:25 AM