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MRI, take two

2/23/2012

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So, I didn't hear from the radiologists on Tuesday.  My cardiologist said to call him at noon on Wednesday if I didn't hear anything.  Lunch is from noon til one, so I called him back at one.  Apparently, the ability to shield a pacemaker from MRI is at the confluence of several specialties, most obviously radiology and  cardiology.  The delay here is that there are several people to schedule (read: herding cats).  The gal on the phone from the radiology place was really nice and even apologetic and empathetic about my wait.  That was refreshing!  Anyway, a supervising doc has to give the final ok for the MRI to, so there's a chance that the "margin of comfort" that the docs have that the process will be successful has to be there or no MRI for me.  That shrinks the "margin of comfort" on my end.  The neurosurgeon isn't the one ordering the MRI.  My primary doc did the order via my cardiologist in an effort to expedite things for the neurosurgeon.  I heard from the neuro's medical assistant that she often does these surgeries with just the CT scan, which is the set of images that I got when this all started.  Maybe going to have another CT scan to see what difference there is over this amount of time will give her more than sufficient info.  Here's hopin'!  All that said, things could be worse:

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Kevin
2/24/2012 01:24:43 pm

Anyone notice the fact that the tumor or whatever guy in the Amy Winehouse video is a big goofy guy with red hair and a beard???? In case you were wondering, no that's not actually me. ;)

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