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1) Get up at a godawfully (for me) early hour. Leave the house without having coffee or breakfast.
2) Go to the Grace General Hospital, Nuclear Imaging Department, for the second part of my Sestamibi test.
3) Get a big-ass IV needle inserted in my right arm. Ouch. Just looking at it made me feel a bit faint (and I can give needles to cats without a qualm).
4) Get wheeled down to Cardiology and have numerous electrodes attached to my body. Get on a treadmill. Pump the heartrate up to 170 or thereabouts. Inject sestamibi (a radioactive tracer) into the IV line. Mmm, metallic aftertaste! Walk hard for another minute, then power down the treadmill.
5) Get wheeled back to Nuclear Imaging. Remove the IV needle and control the bleeding. Get sent off to actually eat something. (Chicken rice soup, tuna salad sandwich, brocolli and cauliflower in a vinegar cheese sauce, coleslaw.) Read the second half of the book "Red Dwarf: Backwards".
6) An hour and a half later, go back to Nuclear Imaging and get inserted into a combination CT scanner/gamma camera.
7) Lie there for 25 minutes as the gamma photon detectors slowly pan around my torso, then the CT scanner rotates around me and takes pictures. Have a nap in the meantime, even though, damn, it's somewhat claustrophobic in there...
8) Be told to pick up my goodies and go home.
9) Do so, stopping to pick up some groceries along the way.
10) Have a hot bath and go to bed for a while.
Writing in this LiveJournal is actually item 9.5. Apologies for not getting together with you today as we discussed, EP, but I feel distinctly not all here.
2) Go to the Grace General Hospital, Nuclear Imaging Department, for the second part of my Sestamibi test.
3) Get a big-ass IV needle inserted in my right arm. Ouch. Just looking at it made me feel a bit faint (and I can give needles to cats without a qualm).
4) Get wheeled down to Cardiology and have numerous electrodes attached to my body. Get on a treadmill. Pump the heartrate up to 170 or thereabouts. Inject sestamibi (a radioactive tracer) into the IV line. Mmm, metallic aftertaste! Walk hard for another minute, then power down the treadmill.
5) Get wheeled back to Nuclear Imaging. Remove the IV needle and control the bleeding. Get sent off to actually eat something. (Chicken rice soup, tuna salad sandwich, brocolli and cauliflower in a vinegar cheese sauce, coleslaw.) Read the second half of the book "Red Dwarf: Backwards".
6) An hour and a half later, go back to Nuclear Imaging and get inserted into a combination CT scanner/gamma camera.
7) Lie there for 25 minutes as the gamma photon detectors slowly pan around my torso, then the CT scanner rotates around me and takes pictures. Have a nap in the meantime, even though, damn, it's somewhat claustrophobic in there...
8) Be told to pick up my goodies and go home.
9) Do so, stopping to pick up some groceries along the way.
10) Have a hot bath and go to bed for a while.
Writing in this LiveJournal is actually item 9.5. Apologies for not getting together with you today as we discussed, EP, but I feel distinctly not all here.
