Especially since “later” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here given that it was literally within days.

If you mean the washcloth then no, it’s just a normal washcloth that you would use at home. They just lay it over my eyes and I can’t see the cage so it’s easier to convince myself it’s not there.

If you end up getting another one, they say that you shouldn’t move at all during the scan and that’s not quite true. There are multiple scans and you can quickly adjust in the lul between loud dub step noises. When I’m not sleeping through the scan I’ll take those few seconds to adjust and get more comfy. Just some advice. Those spots also might be harder to hear if you listen to music just fyi, I don’t.

I mean this is hypothetical but they could have told him the general stuff without the details of what’s actually wrong. Like “something is wrong with your pancreas” instead of “your pancreas is utterly failing because of xyz”. I’ve personally experienced doctors doing this with my own medical issues (I found out later by switching doctors) and while it’s salacious to not tell a patient the entire truth, some asshole doctors don’t. Add in that patients with dementia are often viewed as incapable so aren’t informed of everything as much and yeah I could see it happening. Especially since if he has dementia then someone is likely more knowledgeable of that situation than him and likely would have been informed of the details of the MRI in full instead of him. This also isn’t far off from what was going on with Reagan.

But this is, again, a hypothetical and it’s much more likely he doesn’t remember or he is lying.

Ah yes, that’s probably the most likely. Although I could also just see him not being informed what’s going on in his body because they think he’ll just blab it out one day.

I’ve had scans for my brain and neck area and they’ve used a cage always. And the last time they did the neck they did this extra big cage just for that section. It fucking sucks. It’s possible it’s just because I’m in a red state that hasn’t had as much investment in it for medical tech so things are more outdated. Or the people hate me and want me to suffer in that cage. Probably that first one. Or they just need to because they’re scanning the whole brain maybe? I dunno. I just know that I have them put a washcloth over my eyes so I can’t see it because, like you said, nightmare fuel.

I am so jealous. I’ve been getting them for about a decade now and have always had a cage.

I feel like he would remember if it was the brain just because they click in a cage thing over your head for the duration of the scan. I get an MRI of my brain once a year for my MS and I would never forget getting one. But hey, who knows, he’s going senile. Maybe he forgot. Or maybe he has some kind of disease in a different part of his body that needs an MRI to diagnose.

Obviously, the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Mainly movies for me because I haven’t read them. Extended editions, obviously.

But also, I adore the mass effect trilogy. Yeah, the rpg elements get gradually watered down, and the third ones ending isn’t the best, but it’s still an absolutely amazing Trilogy that I replay yearly. And it all came out in 5 years! Nowadays, single games have 5 years of dev time, at least. In my eyes, it’s as perfect as it can be…Once it’s been modded a bit.