Due to some issues with my knee, I got to experience my first MRI yesterday. It wasn't bad. The nurses were nice and the scrubs they gave me to wear weren't itchy & actually quite comfortable. The weird part is how time passes during the procedure.
Obviously you can not wear any metal whatsoever, so keeping your watch or fitbit on is out of the question. You are told to lie as still as possible, so turning your head to look for a clock is out of the question. They do give you music to listen to, or at least the place I went to did. I was given my choice of music, so I selected rock.
I put the headphones on as they put me into the machine. The person before me was listening to country, so I listened to about half of a song before the music style changed. During the course of the procedure, I listened to six and a half rock songs. If you figure that the average song is about 3 to 3.5 minutes long, you can get a decent gauge on how long you have been in the machine. If we go off that math, I was in the machine for about 7 songs (0.5 country + 6.5 rock). Three to 3.5 minutes per song puts me at 21 to 24.5 minutes. Lee would have been so proud of me mathing during my procedure. Music does make the procedure go by faster, so it makes me wonder if they were able to provide music to those people who needed to have an MRI when the device first came into use.
(Side note: the title of this blog entry came from a note on the MRI machine that was almost right above my head. Not sure what beam they were talking about & I forgot to ask when the procedure was over.)
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