Appointment made

[cjsmith]

MRI review appointment Tuesday morning.

Comments

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

Here's hoping something definitive comes out of it.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[ohhjuliet.livejournal.com]

Yay! Good luck!

And I made a wish on your 11:11, so nicely preserved there.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Cool! Too bad it doesn't record seconds as well as hours/minutes. :-)

[dr-scott.livejournal.com]

..and in the MRI-pain-orgasm file, we have this new article: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.07/female.html?pg=1.

"One of the things Dr. Komisaruk discovered is that women who are stimulating the anterior vaginal wall can take 50 percent more pain than they can when they're not," she tells me excitedly. "If they have an orgasm, their pain threshold rises 100 percent."

Gee, makes me wish I had an anterior vaginal wall.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I seem to recall an old saying that a "heightened woman can't be marked" (meaning that a woman who is sexually aroused won't show bruising or welts from painful things that would otherwise really bother her). Obviously there are limits, but it's interesting that such a thing has been in folk wisdom for a while.

Since men's and women's brains during orgasm are so remarkably similar, perhaps men's analogous pathway for the increased pain threshold will be found soon.

[rampling.livejournal.com]

Yay! Hoping with you for definitive and useful results!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I have four days to learn to read those films myself. ;-)

[rampling.livejournal.com]

You could use the time to make pretty foot MRI jpegs and icons while you're examining them.... ;)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

If I had the right scanner, yeah. Maybe I could just take a digital photo! Alternatively, I could wait until my doctor tells me what's what, and make a cool icon with the actual problem highlighted, like yours. That'd be excellent. (That's assuming there IS a visible problem, of course.)

[rampling.livejournal.com]

A digital photo isn't a bad idea for an icon -- remember that photos don't have to start out as terribly high quality to still make a decent low-res LJ icon.

You might ask Joe how he did his MRI icon (http://www.livejournal.com/userpic/3819512/334968) -- I can't remember if he had digital data or films. Plus he'll prolly have a recommendation for digitizing your films anyway, regardless of what he did for that icon. ;)

And you could still make a pretty highlighted icon later when you find out....

(Yeah, I'm still pleased with my old MRI with throbbing tumor icon, and am happy to have an excuse to trot it out!)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yeah, asking Joe was on my short list for figuring out what to do with those films. Hmm, he seems to be on Y!IM right now, how handy!

I so want a pretty highlighted icon. (Actually, I just so want a diagnosis, and a pretty highlighted icon would mean I had that.) Wheee!

I bet you could trot out that icon any time you did something you couldn't have done if that mass stayed where it was. If I get my feet "repaired" I will surely trot mine out when I do stuff like hiking!