alt.social-security-disability

"M" wrote in message
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>I had an MRI this past February. The cost for around here came to
> $3,500 for getting me out in a snowstorm (wheel chair and all)
> getting
> up on a very skinny cold table (great if you weigh 88 lbs soaking
> wet)
> slidding me into a very noisy machine, running the first seriesod
> tests, injecting dye (tasted like licking a metal can, YUCK!!!),
> running the repeat tests wth dye, checking to be sure we did not
> have
> repeat any of the tests, getting off the table & back into my chair.
> Oh and one of the techs wheeled me out to the waiting room. Total
> time
> about 30 minutes, not counting the struggle getting on and off the
> table and getting there in the first place.
>
> Hopes this answers your question.
>
> Michele


I know what you mean about that skinny ice machine of a table and the
tiny opening in that noisy machine. I'm not morbidly obese or even
close to being such at 220 & 6 ft. but my shoulders are very wide and
even going in head first at an angle half off the table with 2 aides
trying to work my body angle for an hour they gave up and ended up
doing my head and then turning me around and running me in and out to
get images of as much of me as possible. ( missed 3 vertebra ) My next
visit they had a new larger MRI machine I fit in with ease and a
spanking new "open" MRI machine in another room.

Mike