the resonance will be highly magnetic, ya medi-tater!

Tomorrow I have yet another appointment with a machine that can harness a magnetic field 140.000 times stronger than that of our humble planet Earth.

I’ll get to strip stark naked and put on some scrub pants and a scrub shirt and some more of those awesome grippy hospital socks.  Then they’ll hopefully set up a veinous line with one stick because I will have prepared my veins by drinking a butt-load of water with kosher salt and raw sugar that I’ve mixed into it myself.  Then I’ll walk into the room with the big ol’ magnetic donut and lay down on the little table hopefully getting some extra blankets to put around my head to keep it still (I  hate having to come back if things were blurry or something else stupid).  Then I’ll probably fail at putting the earplugs in because I suck at it and I’ll just listen to the familiar noises of the machine doing its thing.  Then they’ll come in and put the contrast in and I’ll taste the dissolved metal and it will also add a Stephanie Meyers’-esque (gag) shimmer to my vision so every thing looks like vampires.

Why can I make that reference?!  I never read those books, I swear!

I’ve got plenty of amazing stuff to think about while I’m in there, like getting to talk to Shannon on the phone with Ashley right there sitting next to me on the couch.  Ashley told me that she sounds very cool and that made me so very giddy.  And the fact that in less than a month I’ll be down there being all in-person with her for the first time since high school.  Plus I’ve honed my skills as a meditator, so I’m going to be fiiiiiiine.

I just worked out that I’ve done this whole process at least twenty-three times (most likely more because there were some emergencies in there somewhere).

But yeah, this will at least be my twenty-fourth instance of being snuggled by electrically demanding medical equipment.

Lucky me!