Get me out of my coffin!

2009.5.25 MRI Scanning 

By the way, that's not me. Just a random picture from the internet.

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)，you would probably know it from somewhere, from TV shows, all kinds of documentaries. So, I've actually tried it for my very first time (and hopefully the only time) and I'm going to tell you how it feels inside the little noisy coffin.

I got the weirdest position for the 30 minutes MRI scan, since I need to do that mainly for my hand, so I'm not lying on the machine but to freefall on the machine. So it wasn't that coffin-like since I don't think there would be someone sleeping in it like that. I did not expect it would take 30 minutes even just for a hand scan and you just cannot move at all and they would just tie you up.

The worst thing of all is that the pressure or nervous of having the scanning, but the injection of some kind of contrast agent for shading. The nurse there tried to inject it somewhere near my right wrist, but later she found out I was having an imaging for my hands, and then she tried to find another place to put the needle in. But she could hardly find a better place so she just inject for like four, or five times? Alright this is not the first time they said it's hard to find my blood vessels, but please, my both arms are covered up with bandages afterwards!

And in fact the contrast agent may lead to life-threatening disorder and there is a probability of 1/200000 that I may actually die! Good luck! And put me in a better coffin by then.