work things, health things

[tielan]

Look, all I want is a tool that can convert XSD to something that a human can read easily. You'd think it wouldn't be that damn difficult to find, but noooooo...

Pros of working with computers: not having to deal with people as much.

Cons of working with computers: they talk in a different language and trying to translate is AWFUL.

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I got an MRI yesterday; I probably should have waited for the neurologist appointment on Tuesday but... Man, that machine is noisy! Nothing like they show on TV. (Never trust TV.)

I was fine. I wouldn't have thought of coffins if my sister hadn't told me (thanks, B1), but I just closed my eyes and tried to think of the next plot point for my story. Inasmuch as I could given all the bumps, thumps, and blarts going on around me.

Incidentally, I did think of the next plot point. Except now I can't remember it. :(

Comments

[jelazakazone]

Hope the MRI turns up nothing!

I had an MRI a few years ago and it was torture because I couldn't move. For a long time. Like 20 minutes. I didn't have the scrip for one of the procedures they were doing and that took some time to figure out (I'd left it at home). Husband took a picture and emailed it to them.

[tielan]

Ah. Yeah, same here. About 20-30 minutes, just lying there listening to the noises...

[jelazakazone]

Were they doing your head? Also, were you in a tube? I wasn't enclosed, thank god.

[tielan]

Spinal column, so, yes, a tube.

[highsmith]

When you said you "got" an MRI, I honest to God believed for one tiny milisecond that you'd actually bought an MRI machine. As people do. Because of pertinent reasons, I'm sure.

[tielan]

Ah, the innate flexibility of the English language!

[everbright]

I'm glad your MRI wasn't TRAUMATIC. Those things are just not psychologically comfortable.

[thothmes]

I had an MRI once to try and diagnose persistent low back pain lasting over a year. We had adopted a one year old, and something about carrying her around constantly, without the slow build up one gets starting with a newborn, threw my back out, and it just wasn't getting better. They put me on my back with a hard pillow under my knees, and apologized that I was going to have to stay that way for 20 - 30 minutes. They hoped I wasn't too uncomfortable. I was not, so they began.

THUMP! THUMP! THUMP!

After the designated time, I emerged. Something, I know not what, had shifted back where it needed to be. My back pain, while not totally gone, was much improved, and over the next three or four days, it just quietly faded away to nothing. The MRI showed a normal back, and was diagnostically useless. It wasn't as though I hadn't tried every position and posture known to humanity to try and settle the darn thing either. If it was a miracle, a laying on of magnetic vibrations as it were, I'll take it.

Here's hoping you do equally well!