My purpose in creating this blog is to help those who find themselves in a Radiology Department in an emergency and/or trauma situation feel informed and less fearful of what may happen. Before the fall of 2000, the Radiology Department was just another hallway in the hospital to me. I had never had an x-ray and so really had no knowledge of what took place there. I just figured it was somewhere people went after breaking bones so the doctors could know how to fix it.

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

My story

On the night of August 12(see My Purpose statement), my view of this hallway was opened beyond what I had ever comprehended. That night, I had a grand mal seizure and was rushed to the hospital where, after consulting with the doctor, I was taken down that "hallway" for what would become the first of many images taken of the inner workings of my brain. During that first CT scan, a mass was found and it was determined that I needed to be transported to a larger hospital with a more advanced "hallway". I was next introduced to the MRI machine, which I saw as just another bigger, colder, much louder machine.
It is because of these machines that at first seem so daunting and unwelcoming that a brain tumor was found and removed before it could grow any more and do any further damage.