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During my prolonged summer and early fall absence from these pages I’ve been awarded customer of the month twice at the local orthopedic surgeon store. The details are unimportant.
I highly recommend the nerve block for any surgery. It’s got a delightful aroma of hickory with a hint of whimsy. Plus, your arm, leg, shoulder or knee feels like a 2 x 4 for a day and a half after the surgery so there’s that. I have no idea what it costs but I’m telling you it’s a bargain at twice the price. Which bring us to our most recent MRI.
I get suited up or dressed down as the case may be and as I’m lying (laying?) on the table that’s about to slide me into the magnetic tunnel the MRI tech asks if I would like to listen to music instead of bricks rolling around in a dryer. I say yes – what do you have?
He hands me the play list and I say channel 788 which is the Frank Sinatra station. The quality of the audio in the headphones is terrible but I don’t care. I’m just hoping I haven’t forgotten if I have a pacemaker or a stent or any other piece of metal in my body which I guess would get zoomed out of me at hypersonic magnetic speed once the machine starts. Clearly there would be blood everywhere, all of it mine along with an internal organ or two draped over the MRI machine. And so much paperwork – Oy.
In I go, the music begins, it’s old Blue Eyes, the Chairman of the Board and the first sounds I hear are… BANG BANG BANG BANG AND NOW THE END IS NEAR AND SO I FACE THE FINAL CURTAIN …BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG…
It’s ” My Way” one of Frankie’s biggest hits not exactly appropriate but I laugh it off without moving cause you can’t move once the magnets start taking pictures. That tune is followed by Dean Martin’s ” Ain’t that a Kick in the Head?” and soon the hammering stops, I’m back on my feet and on the way home.
I don”t know if Frank was trying to reach me from the great beyond or if I was a victim of a simple twist of fated black humor. But Frank, if you’re listening keep those hits coming. I’ll take the pumpkin spice nerve block next time.
