I Did It !!!!!! & Survived

Mom and I just got home from the hospital. I went in at 8:00am to check in (took one Valium pill) and then I had to get a shot of dye in the shoulder so it would show up on the MRI better. Their paperwork said it was the right shoulder and I had to straighten them out. The orderly said that after all, I would probably know which shoulder hurt. They put me on the table and marked the spot with a sharpie pen. Then they deadened that area and stuck a humongous needle into my shoulder socket. The deadening was OK but the next shot just about brought me up off the table. When I sat up there was a picture of my shoulder on the monitor.

Then off to the MRI. When we entered the room the hole in the machine looked mighty small. I layed on the table and he sand bagged and twisted my shoulder into the position he wanted, handed my a "panic" button (he didn't call it that but that is what it is) and motored me into the machine. Now, I'm not a small guy and the machine is not that big. Thank heaven for the Valium, we all got along fine. At first I had to just concentrate on slow breathing and it all went well. In my mind I was trying to estimate how long I had been in there, he said it would be 35 minutes. My left arm went totally asleep (I couldn't feel it at all) and I was guesstimating about 15 minutes when he started to roll me out and said it had been 40 minutes. He repositioned my arm above my head and rolled me back in for another 2-3 minutes. That one was a piece of cake.

Mom was waited out in the waiting room for me and we came home. I wasn't supposed to drive because I had taken the Valium pill. I really didn't feel different at all but I know I would have been a basket case if I hadn't had it. Now I wait until the 26th when I go back to the doctor's office to get the results. The technician said I did great and didn't move at all. How can you when you are stuck in a little tube?

Mom took a sick day today to go with me and I took a sick day too. So, here we are home at 11:00am and nothing to do. Mom is sewing and I am typing. The sun is shining and it is beautiful outside. It is supposed to be in the 50's tomorrow.

I'll keep you posted.

Dad

Late night fun

Early morning on the 15th, We (training officer and I) got a call for a mental person at the Coeur d' Alene Casino. Some guy was babbling, saying weird creepy stuff, and bothering the customers there. When we arrived he just kept going, so we told him he had to leave and offered him a ride. After making his call for a ride, he decides we are there to kill him, so he climbs up the casino sign along Hwy 95. He made it about 20-25 feet up before things got interesting. While spouting off stuff about the FBI and how we are going to kill him he tried to climb higher, slipped, and fell like a rag doll. He landed feet first and rolled over screaming. Long story short, he got a free trip to the psych ward at the hospital and a free cast on his brand new broken ankle. It's not illegal to be crazy in Idaho, but after you are a threat to others or yourself, then you go for a ride. This is what happens when you self-medicate with meth.