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Title: MRI in a Comic Strip
Post by: arizonajack on July 30, 2013, 08:23:15 am

http://www.oregonlive.com/comics-kingdom/index.ssf?feature_id=Piranha&feature_date=2013-07-14

Title: Re: MRI in a Comic Strip
Post by: phantagrae on August 01, 2013, 12:03:52 pm

I don't know if I've mentioned it around here before, but I love the show Big Bang Theory and they once had an episode where Sheldon was complaining about hearing a high-pitched sound in one ear--"an octave above middle C"--and at one point he said, "sure sounds like a tumor pressing on the auditory nerve..."

I saw a rerun of that ep just after I was diagnosed and I didn't know whether to laugh or cry...  :P

Title: Re: MRI in a Comic Strip
Post by: Soundy on August 04, 2013, 09:38:07 am

I love Big Bang ... That episode made me think too.... As for the comic, in my AN journy i ran into a couple oc doctors who were lost

Title: Re: MRI in a Comic Strip
Post by: arizonajack on August 04, 2013, 11:10:01 am

Quote from: Soundy on August 04, 2013, 09:38:07 am

I ran into a couple oc doctors who were lost

"Calling Dr Howard, Dr Fine, Dr Howard."

Title: Re: MRI in a Comic Strip
Post by: nftwoed on August 05, 2013, 11:12:36 am

Hi;
   Sort of makes one want to mark the AN side ( so they do the correct side ) before surgery, eh? Lost ... Just think, some of these people are into our cranium!

Title: Re: MRI in a Comic Strip
Post by: arizonajack on August 05, 2013, 02:10:20 pm

Quote from: nftwoed on August 05, 2013, 11:12:36 am

Hi;
   Sort of makes one want to mark the AN side ( so they do the correct side ) before surgery, eh? Lost ... Just think, some of these people are into our cranium!

Funny you should mention that.

In the weeks before my GK I was joking with my friends about doing just that. They talked me out of it as not being a good idea to antagonize the doctors, any one of which might not have a sense of humor.

I put it out of my mind.

So, there I was on the gurney just before being wheeled in for the GK and the technician comes over, hands me a marking pen and has me mark the side of my head where the AN was.

Title: Re: MRI in a Comic Strip
Post by: jsanders1379 on August 05, 2013, 03:59:20 pm

Reminds me of when my daughter had Lasik eye correction & everyone in the waiting room had a little green star over their left or right eye...

Title: Re: MRI in a Comic Strip
Post by: Soundy on August 17, 2013, 05:46:27 pm

They had me  initial the back of my right hand to designate the AN side... hard since I am right handed and had an iv in the back of my left hand

When Mom used to work in nursing home they marked patients going out for surgery after a man's good kidney was removed instead of the diseased one  :o