Did you know MRI's can burn your boobies?

Last Thursday (June 11th) I was putting Maeve (our third born who is currently 15 months old) in her high chair and my left elbow hit the corner of the wall. Where the drywall is joined they have a metal thing over it. We don't have fancy rounded corners, these are sharp pointy corners. If it were and animal it would have fangs instead teeth, get my drift? Anyway Maeve is a pretty large girl for her age (30 lbs, I know, whoa!) and when my arm hit the wall it sort of collapsed on itself and Maeves weight added to the pressure. At the moment we don't know what is wrong. I ended up in the ER the next morning because my elbow was hurting me so bad. I thought it was just stunned from hitting my ulnar nerve (what some people would call the funny bone, but it is really a nerve that goes right next to your elbow and runs to your fingertips in your pinky) but I was in a lot of pain. So at the ER they did some x-rays and didn't see any fractures but there was some swelling so they told me to follow up with my doctor. It was funny cause my nerve had definitely been hurt to an extent because when I would move my pinky it would snap into place like some snapped a rubber band. Anyhow so I went to my doctor on friday and she wanted to get an MRI done to make sure there wasn't a chip in the bone of possibly any ligament damage since my arm had collapsed under Maeve's weight. So she sent me to the imaging center (luckily they had an immediate opening) and they were about to do things when a clerical guy asked me if we had gotten pre-authorization from my insurance company. I said I didn't know so he called they doctor's office and they said they hadn't known it was necessary and he said that my insurance company won't pay for an MRI unless there was a pre-authorization. Boo for insurance companies right? Anyway so I had to go home because it was early friday evening and they couldn't get it down that night. So they got it down Monday afternoon but the earliest I could get in was tonight at 7pm. I hate leaving the house when danny is home. Call me crazy but I miss him! I just want to be with my husband all the time... or maybe I just want someone to talk to who is older than 3.5 lol. 

Anyway I got my MRI done tonight and I had never realized I'm sort of claustrophobic until they showed me that machine. It was seriously just a little bit larger around than the opening on a toilet seat. They had me laying on my stomach with my arm stretched out in front of me and my face pretty much smashed into a pillow that was between my face and the big huge cuff they had to hold my elbow in place. So I'm already uncomfortable.

Then my boobs were on fire, like seriously I felt like someone was holding two irons to my boobies (said like Caroline and Dina Manzo and Teresa say boobies, sort of like bubbies lol, I love me some Real Housewives of New Jersey!).I was dying. During one of the breaks I asked him if the machine heats up or anything. The MRI tech came in and told me that the machine has to do something with the fat to see through it and since I'm breast feeding and there is a lot of fat in breast milk, well and breast in general, I mean mine are pretty huge right now, anyway he said it would heat up. So my breast milk was basically boiling inside my boobies. It was seriously one of the most awful experiences of my life pain wise. I thought I was just laying on them weird or something, and I felt sort of crazy cause I thought I might start bawling, but then the guy told me that it is normal for there to be heat in the fat areas. I was like well why the heck isn't my stomach and bum burning up too?

Oh and I was horrified that I might get stuck in the MRI machine and then they would have to call the fire department to get me out and then everyone would know me as "that fat girl who got stuck in the MRI"... it was a horrifying experience all around! 

I was also terrified that since I had to wear shorts that the MRI tech might be able to see my bum when he had me laying on my stomach. Then he had me switch to laying on my back with my arm over my head when my boobies started burning and I was all paranoid about my stomach showing. I mean you don't have four babies in 3.5 years and have  a gorgeous stomach, not unless you have sold your soul to the devil or you are angelina jolie or both. I have no idea why they don't have like a selection of movies or tv shows, or books on tape for all MRI patients to listen to. I mean they brain scan people get to watch movies so they've obviously figured out how to get around the whole giant magnet might rip apart any electronic device that's in the room problem. If I even have to have an MRI again I'm gonna need a sedative or better yet general anesthesia. I saw a little kid well baby really as she was probably no more than 18 months old, who was out like a light waiting for her MRI. It was so precious. I just wanted to pick her up and cuddle her. 

Anyway now I'm bored and awake and I hate being in the living room when danny is in bed, I just want to be next to him (poor guy, I'm probably smothering him lol) but I don't want to wake him up by having the tv on or the lamp on so I can read. And my kids always find and murder my book lights so I'm on the computer with the backlight dimmed as low as possible. I guess I could go search netflix and hulu.com for something to watch and then just bust out the headphones but I can never really find anything I'm super interested in watching. I really just want to read my book. I'm currently reading The Host by Stephanie Meyer (yes of Twilight fame) it's pretty good so far. I also wish that New Moon would come out soon. I can't get enough of Robert Pattinson's face! He's so cute! And Tyler/Taylor Lautner too. I don't remember his first name, let's just call him by what should be his real name, Jacob, cause he is the perfect Jacob in my mind. I was really angered at the girl they picked to play Bella (Kristen Stewart) Now I sort of see her as physically looking like Bella (although I originally pictured Rory from Gilmore Girls) but her acting is awful, she looks like she's constipated half the time. And to be fair Robert Pattinson's performance was definitely not oscar worthy but he is so dang pretty! It can be overlooked. Smoldering is a great word for him. I think he was the perfect Edward. I was also disappointed though in the things they left out of the book, like the meadow? Seriously it was disappointing. But whatever, I've strayed off topic, like always. Please forgive the over abundance of typos and stray sentences as well as the sentences that have been abandoned like a red headed step child. I am still taking hydrocodone and I know no one who hasn't experienced it believes me but mirena can make you forgetful and have memory lapses too. Maybe I should repost my cafemom post about the evils of mirena on here since I've been neglecting my blog so long. I've been trying really hard to get the house cleaned and every thing the kids could need in the mornings before I sit down and get on the computer. Mainly so I won't have to get back up later since my medicine makes me hot if I move too much after I've taken it. So I wait until I've done everything to take my medicine and sit down. And generally by then Danny comes home for lunch and he is studying for his MES exam he takes next month and then we lay down together and snuggle while Bella has quiet time and the other kids nap. Then it starts all over again when they get up from their naps so I really haven't been on the computer much at all. Plus I got a camera as my present for having Rudy (way better than flowers in my opinion, what a wonderful husband right?) so I've been taking lots of pictures of random crap around the house, as well as my kids... wait that sounds like I'm calling my kids random crap... well they aren't but they sure do get annoying sometimes. Anyway I'm taking lot's of pictures and I'm entering them in some contests in my cafemom photography groups and I'm actually tied for the lead in one category! I'm so excited! Anyway I'll post some of the most recent pictures I've taken but beware a lot of them are just the kids cause I love them so much! So you might get bored, unless you are one of the grandparents!