Sunday, October 02, 2005

My Brain goes to South Africa on a CD

Well, I couldn't resist the title, but it's true! I've been having dizzy spells for a while, which wasn't an issue until they started to increase and make me nauseous and on one or two occasions, actually almost fall over. So, I've been having some tests - Ear, Nose & Throat (i.e. Meniere's Disease (idiopathicendolymphatic hydrops for short), Blood (i.e. Anemia) and today, an MRI scan (for anything more horrid). So off I go to Carlisle, which has actually got a brand new hospital that always reminds me of an Airport concourse, for my scan. I turn up and when called, get taken back outside, and round the back (I kid you not!) into a carpark where a large NASA-like Tour Bus is parked up, with cables running into a generator. Turns out that this is the mobile MRI scanner unit! Anyways, the scan was rather an anti-climax; I joked when I got out that for all of that noise and trouble, at the very least I was expecting a little bit of time-travel. The technician didn't find this amusing, and was busy writing 'Confidential' on a CD. I recalled that on my questionairre I'd been asked if it was OK to send the results to specialists in South Africa (tells you about the state of the NHS and Outsourcing, huh?) and I'd said OK. So, either the technician was busy downloading the latest Oasis tracks from Napster, or that was my brain pictures, ready to be popped into a jiffy bag and sent surface mail to South Africa!

You couldn't make this world up, could you? - but I think someone did!

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