The hospital is only 1.15 miles away from my office, but it's up Wisconsin Ave on the edge of rush hour. If you know DC traffic, especially Georgetown traffic, you know that it can take 30 minutes to drive those 7 blocks before you turn down Reservoir.
And then we know that the later in the day it is, the more difficult parking can be - the garages are quite small. But we lucked out - we did have to go to another garage, but there was a spot right near the entrance.
And then I had to get to the CCC Building, which is, like, waaaaaay in the back of the hospital complex. One starts singing "over the river and through the woods" going down hallway after hallway. But then since Alison has gone in and out of the hospital so many times, she knew exactly where to go.
So, yeah, we were all checked in by 5pm. And then they didn't call me back until 6:45pm. And then we had to go to the other MRI location (over the river and through the woods again). And then wait for them to be really ready for me. And then the MRI took 45 minutes (standard length of time). And then I had to wait another 5-10 minutes for the tech to make a CD of my images. It was 8pm by the time we go out of the hospital. My sister didn't complain once. At least not to me.
Plus, we got to see the images of my brain over dinner! And seeing my gray matter all gray, no glowing white mass, was worth the 3 hour wait. Though next time I'll budget our time better :)
Pictures are after the jump. For each set, the top picture is from my November MRI and the second picture is from yesterday. I tried to get as close to the same view as possible. Look for my titanium pins and the choppiness of my skull and faux-derma. It's pretty cool.
To my untrained eye, it certainly looks like nothing is there. I am meeting with my neursurgeon on the 9th for his trained-eye opinion and I'll update again after that!
5 comments:
Why would I complain? I was happy to be able to be there for you (and you convinced me, now I have a few games on my phone including Scrabble!). And I love these before and after pics, really shows how beautiful your brain is (and totally dig how you can see the screws, collagen in place of derma and all that jazz, pretty cool!).
XOXO
BTW you should share this on Twitter or Facebook or something, I think these photos are cool as heck and so many are thrilled to see you healthy and tumor-free!
A beautiful brain - perfect as the day you were born. Such a relief!
April (Mommy)
Hooray! So glad that everything is going well for you, Debbie. :-) I hope you got the official all-clear yesterday!
P.S. Yes, I would have allowed that much time to get to the MRI, too! Gtown traffic is just silly.
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