thoracic spine MRI

I have been to Mt. Auburn for my MRI scan, and had plausible food beforehand despite the weather (this sort of thing was easier when I was comfortable eating indoors), and I got home without being drenched. Glad I wore my rainshell, though (REI brand, Seattle knows about rain). This MRI isn't because anything specific is wrong, it's to confirm that nothing new has gone wrong, MS being like that.

When I said I wanted to give them my N95 mask at the same time as my glasses (both contain metal) the tech pointed at a hook, which suggests I'm not the only person who wanted to do it that way rather than switching into a surgical mask sans nose wire.

Also, the scan took less time than the scheduler had told me it would, which is fine with me (though I think more than the 20 minutes the technician said it would take). I had a little trouble getting my earplugs seated properly, but did get it right, much better than the scan two weeks ago.

The tech asked if I knew it was down as "without contrast," because usually for MS they do a scan with the (gadolinium) contrast medium. I told her that the doctor had said he was going to order it that way, but I don't remember what reason he gave. He's no longer at Mt. Auburn, so there was no convenient way to check and possibly reschedule while waiting to hear back from him (I have a new neurologist on paper, and on MyChart, but am not seeing her until December).

weird animal fact

Apropos of nothing at all, today I learned that whale sharks have teeth on their eyeballs. These aren't the teeth they eat with; rather, they protect the sharks' eyeballs.

By "apropos of nothing," I mean that this was a random cool thought dropped into a meta-conversation about making social conversation, and the "chaos goblin" approach of stating something weird and cool like that, rather than answering "how are you?" either with something like "fine" or "could be worse" or with something like "I went to the beach yesterday" or "I just read a good mystery novel" as a mild conversation-starter.

The person who suggested this said that you'd either get into some kind of weird but interesting conversation, or they would decide you were the wrong sort of weird and you'd each look for someone else to talk to.