Content Warning: Medical Images
I finally got my hands on my most recent MRI! I had to go on a bit of a wild goose chase to get it too, navigating the hospital systems can feel like playing a video game and completing quests sometimes. Anyway, I have no idea what I'm looking at and can't see Chad for myself but I thought I would share these images anyway because they're pretty cool.
The Images
These are GIFS because I think there's a total of 908 images that make these up but let me know if there's any particular picture you want for some reason.
The Goose Chase
I wanted to share about how difficult it was to get these images, but also note that everyone was super helpful along the way, it was just a lot of bureaucracy. First, I asked the Radiation Reception in the Tom Baker basement where I could get the most recent copy of my MRI. They sent me to the reception on the main floor, where I filled out a form and got the results from my most recent CT and MRI in text on paper (so not the images). I asked where I could get the images and was sent to the media lab on the ground floor, where I was able to request the images but not pay for them. To pay for them, I had to go to the main building to the cashier's office and then come back to the media lab with the receipt. Once the media lab had the copy of the receipt, they said they would email me the images within 48 hours. They emailed me a password-protected file that same night, but no instructions so I had to wait for the next day to call and ask how to access the file! I'm glad everyone was super helpful along the way but dang is it hard to get your hands on medical images! I hope you guys enjoy them haha.
Cool! Not sure where "Chad' is but everything looks very symmetrical. Reminds of looking at those kaleidoscopes as the images move by!
That’s so cool!!!!! Art! You should add some techno music to them and play it on a screen at a dance party when those happen again. Maybe at the victory party when all this is over.
They certainly made it difficult for you. It's too bad they can't streamline the process to make it easier on people. I'm sorry they added frustration to your already overflowing plate!
On a more positive note, YOU DO HAVE A BRAIN! It's always good to have confirmation there is a lot more than air in that pretty little head of yours.
Your brain is very photogenic. I especially love all of the different angles. Seriously, the pics with your eyes 👀 and your ears 👂👂 sticking out are kind of cute. Lol.
I do hope they don't add any more frustration to the mix. I hope your tomorrow is filled with butterflies 🦋 and rainbows 🌈.
Isn't technology wonderful! That's why they get paid the big bucks to look through those images and "translate" them into something understandable to us non techy people! At least you got them and it is kinda cool looking into the inside of a brain even I don't know what exactly I am looking at! ;)