At least that is what my wife says.
I just got back from the Dermatologists office. I went there so I could have an MRI done on my knee. "What in the world does a Dermatologist have to do with an MRI?" you ask. Well that's the wierd part.
About 40 or 45 years ago I was visiting a friend and we were shooting our BB guns. I went inside to get something to drink and was walking around the corner of the house when I was hit in the face by a BB. It was not aimed at me, I was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. When the wound healed up I discovered the BB was still there. No pain, no external evidence, I could just feel it with my tongue in my cheek.
Fast forward to May 2010. I stepped down off a retaining wall after giving a shot and hyperextended my knee. OUCH. I kept going thinking the knee would heal itself. Wrong. In December I went to an Orthopedic Surgeon and he said he thought I might have some damage to the miniscus but I needed an MRI to be sure. So I made an appointment for an MRI. When I went in for the appointment they laid me on a table and began to slide the table into the machine. WHOOOOA!!! yelled the technician, your face is moving. DUHHHH, the BB is made of steel and the magnets are pulling it.
SOOOOO, I just got back from having the BB removed so I can reschedule the MRI. Just wierd.
Andy
And You Also.......
..........spell weird.
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yikes! did you feel it getting pulled from your face?
Nahhh
Novocaine is good stuff. He had to make an incision about 2 centimeters long because there was some scar tissue attached. I'll probably have to take a few Advil before the novocaine wears off though.
Andy
I could blame it on drugs
but it wouldn't be the truth. Just plain spelled it wrong (Grin)
Andy
Nahhh
Wow...I thought you was gonna tell us the BB had migrated from your face to your knee. Now THAT would be WEIRD.
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DDSM
lol! My younger brother accidentally shot his twin with a BB gun when they were horsing around in their younger days. At the time they didn't think it penetrated his body. They never told anybody about until he had to get his appendix remove 10 years later. He had some X-rays done and lo and behold, there it was, and it still is to this day.
In his appendix?
No, not his appendix, but in that general area.
It would seem prudent for the people doing MRI tests to have a magnetic locator or similar instrument and go over each patient very carefully before getting them close to the magnet.
You and the tech were alert and caught yours. If that guy with a bb in his abdomen was in the wrong position it could do serious damage when the magnet tried to rip it out.
Have you ever had metal fragments in your eye?
They wouldn't let a friend of mine have an MRI because he answered yes to that question.....
Nahhh
Just glad you are OK, Andy!! Crazy story, though... I am imagining this Bee Bee traveling throughout your cheek, rolling wherever the magnet takes it. 😛
Crazy story!!!!!
Lucky your tech was on the ball.
How vividly I remember playing in BB Gun wars in the days before paintball guns hit the mainstream. Most of my friends and I are lucky we are not walking around with a little extra steel in our bodies somewhere.
Andy, It's a good thing you didn't get too close to one of those magnetic rocks we heard about a week or 2 ago.
