Into My Mind

It breaks my heart that I am now going to have to give up my affair with Batman. I always did like that utility belt...

I successfully completed my CT scan yesterday and didn't get beamed off to some other solar system where I would be threatened by cannibalistic Wookies which was nice. As I got up from the machine I informed my CT tech that I felt like I had just participated in a Sci-Fi T.V. episode and she laughed saying she gets that a lot. What I appreciated was the fact that I didn't have to hold my breath. She told me not to move, but that I could continue to breathe; music to my ears.

I also asked her if I would get to see the results and she said that typically these things were always handled electronically now. "Oh, but I've never had one before." She asked me if I'd ever had a CT before and I said no and that's why I was interested in seeing what it looked like. After the procedure she came out of the room that protects them from the radiation or whatever and let me tell you she was beaming. She said that after speaking with her colleagues they thought it would be a good idea to send a set of films with me to take to my follow-up visit and if my doctor didn't need them (since he gets electronic files), I could keep them. YEA!! I GOT TO SEE MY INSIDES AND WAS WILLING TO SHOW THEM TO ANYONE INTERESTED!!

This is where my affair with Batman comes into play. Seriously people, the picture of a slice of my spinal column sure looked like the body of a bat with the head of a human. Hence Jason asking me to stick strictly to all human contact, no more half human half creature items. I guess that means no more Centaur either. Yes we are fully aware that Batman is all human, but it was a joke. Get over it!

I guess that's it. I would tell you more about the results of my CT, but hey I don't know yet. I don't go to the doctor again until the 20th of July. Personally, I thought my insides looked all screwed up, but maybe I'm normal. It could happen. Oh mom, remind me to show you the film again that had a strange blob on it. At one point during lunch and examination of my films, my mom swore they took a picture of my butt. Well, I do have a few pictures that have a strange blob looking thing in them and maybe they took a picture of an ovary. I felt a little violated, like they were getting just a bit too personal; but hey maybe I'm just oversensitive.

So, I finally went to day to the back doctor. Only a few months after the pain started and a few weeks after calling the general practioner to say that his drugs were doing crap to help.

The result of this visit? A CT scan on Thursday. Big words were used like Marfan Syndrome (although I'm short and stumpy, not long and gangly), Scoliosis, fracture, trauma, etc. I'm getting the CT scan instead of a MRI because at this time he's more concerned with the bone structure versus the discs and nerves, but a MRI may be in my future depending on the results. Don't read too much into the big words though considering Marfan Syndrome is a major deal and the only symptom I might be having is Dural Ectasia, but you also have to keep in mind that there's only a 1 in 10,000 chance since neither of my parents have it. His main guess at this point is either I had a trauma at some point or was born with things just not quite lined up. (don't worry I already called my mom and blamed it all on her - like a good child would)

I've attached a photo that should show a very basic idea of what's wrong. Basically my second to last vertebrate is slightly out of whack, but the very bottom vertabrate is totally screwed up. I compared it to a smooched marshmallow on the phone and instead of looking like its heading out my back, it's actually pushed into my pelvic region. On the front shot x-ray of my spine, it looked like it was pushed out to the side, but on the side x-ray you could see it pushed forward. Damn, I knew I shouldn't keep letting Jason kick me in the back. He pushed the damn thing forward. *That's a joke for anyone who would actually believe that crap.*

Anyway, we'll just have to wait and see what the results are. I'm just glad that the words fat and lazy weren't brought up once. He basically just said "Wow, you started early" when he saw that I had three kids. I can deal with that.

Okay so I ended up watching "Hell's Kitchen", dozing off, watched the "The Daily Show" and fell into a coma state of sleep. Not sure what all happened last night, just remember waking up this morning with Nick next to me and Jason in the family room with Aiden. Huh.

No T.V. tonight. Part of me is dying with the thought of it, since I am a truly lazy American that enjoys her boob tube. I wonder how it got that nick name? Alas, tonight is my very first IAAP meeting. Part of me is looking forward to it and the other part wants to curl up in the fetal position. I'm always torn between the extrovert that likes to meet new people and the introvert that's scared of making an ass of herself. Who will reign supreme? (see I can't even write without referencing t.v. - the supreme question is part of the opening of Iron Chef America)

I must share a link with you though that one of my friends had posted on her site. I love laughing so loud at work that people stop and want to know what's so funny.

Dance Evolution

I've decided I'm in love with Mark Darcy. I would gladly be Bridget Jones, slightly over weight, smoking and drinking if it meant that I got to shag Hugh Grant and still end up with Colin Firth.

I enjoy the fact that I can lust over fictional characters. Partially because I think everyone does and partially because hell maybe I'm a little crazy. Night before last I watched the first Bridget Jones' on TV and last night I had to watch the second. I really like the fact that I can imagine myself there; shagging Hugh Grant of course. Oh am I a sucker for a chick flick!

Maybe tonight I'll watch "Sabrina" and just pretend that I'm as classic as Audrey Hepburn. Or maybe I'll just watch "Hell's Kitchen" and go to bed early. Or maybe I'll just watch "Bridget Jone's Diary" again because it is one of my favorites right now.