It's been a whiteout all day, and I hear that all of the roads out of town are currently closed. Fine with me inasmuch as I hadn't planned on leaving the house for another few days. I came across this on youtube, and decided to watch some of the 14 Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce Sherlock Holmes movies (1939-1944) tonight.
They can try, but no one else is Sherlock.
Whiteouts and being snowed in give me what I refer to as 'claustrophobia in the great outdoors'.?ÿ The world has closed in on me, much like being in a tiny room.?ÿ I have never experienced traditional claustrophobia but have seen others having that problem.?ÿ The little globe-like elevator cars inside the Arch in St. Louis seemed to give quite a few people problems during the two times I was there.
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@holy-cow I have no problem with heights, navigating narrow passsage caves, cramped spaces or cabin fever.?ÿ The one thing that I absolutely can not do is get in an MRI tube. I've tried several times, even with sedatives, but it just absolutely freaks me out when my head is in the machine.
I wish would would get some snow.?ÿ It hardly ever snows here in StL anymore.?ÿ
wish would would get some snow.?ÿ It hardly ever snows here in StL anymore.?ÿ
Boo!
And we will not be getting any significant snow here in central Indiana this year, and maybe three more years. ?ÿI bought a snow blower. ?ÿFirst one ever for me.
Last MRI I had I fell asleep to the humming and?ÿ tones of the magnetic flux changing. They had to wake me up and ask me to please focus on not moving.
That was pretty funny.
But I'll sleep anywhere if I'm tired
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@jitterboogie The only time I was in an MRI was before shoulder surgery.?ÿ The technician wanted me to hold my arm up over my head and stay still.?ÿ I told her that if I could lift my arm over my head I wouldn't be there.
Andy
I was there for a knee thing.
They put me in head first, which I wondered why but it was fun none the less.
The techs were all excited when I was asking how many Tesla was the coil capable of etc....
It was 5
That's huge!
I went in for my hand and shoulder.?ÿ I was fine, but then they said that I must've moved, so they put me back in, and that second go wasn't good.?ÿ I was just about at my breaking point, when they said it was done and brought me out.?ÿ?ÿ No interest in doing that again.
The last MRI that I did, once inserted head first I was working on my breathing and relaxation techniques. ?ÿThen the tech said, ??open your eyes.? ?ÿBig mistake. ?ÿI asked to be let out immediately. ?ÿThat was the last time I will attempt that conscious. ?ÿClaustrophobic. ?ÿ
(ps~brag, I spelled those last two words correctly on the first try!)
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I've had an MRI once. On my knee. The tech offered me headphones and asked me which FM station I would like to listen to. I chose NPR. She then told me to stay absolutely motionless while the scan was going on. Shortly after the scan began NPR began playing John Phillip Souza marching music. I swear it's true. It took all my concentration to listen to marching music for 20 minutes without so much as twitching a toe.?ÿ?ÿ
I've had several MRIs over the years.?ÿ Being stuffed in a culvert pipe while someone beats on the outside of the pipe with a hammer has never been any fun.
I did have one once that was actually pleasant though.?ÿ For a brain scan I laid flat on my back on a large flat disk with my head in an immobilizing cradle.?ÿ No entry into a "pipe" was involved.?ÿ The scanning equipment floated around above me in a programmed fashion.?ÿ They softly piped in Beatles music for the half hour or so it took.?ÿ ?ÿ
And they found nothing, right??ÿ Sorry, couldn't resist.
I had an MRI once when I experienced an inexplicable olfactory phenomenon (I smelled coffee brewing all the time, even when there was no coffee around).?ÿ I found the experience relaxing, and could have fallen asleep except for he noise.
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@jitterboogie I've heard several people say they fall asleep but I can't sleep on my back either.?ÿ LOL!
@brad-ott after some research I found that an open sit up MRI machine exists and I searched one out.?ÿ With a bad lumbar spine, that thing just about killed me.?ÿ The seat and back rest were hard fiberglass and did not match the contour of my spine so I kept moving to get comfortable.?ÿ After 40 minutes of electric chair torture and getting yelled at by the Tech to stop moving, I could barely manage to walk to my truck because of the pain.
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Way back in 1980 I needed a CATscan of my head.?ÿ I then had the privilege of telling people the medical staff took hundreds of X-rays of my brain and found absolutely nothing.?ÿ For some odd reason, no one seemed to be surprised.
