shocking news from Rennie to Earth, Mars, and highly intelligent shades of blue.
Hellooooooooooooooooooo, this is Renato Regalado giving a nice big "hello" to all intelligent life forms out there. And for the rest of you, the secret is banging the rocks together. ;)
well first things first, Carlos and Checo have no excuse for not blogging for they are back in kingsville doing shit. This "shit" that I speak of is also known as training. But it doesn't last all day, and I know that they aren't do anything special. So get with the talking! Second, I went to monterrey, and I must say it was fun, because I played around with a lot of medical machinery, here's my experiences.
1. The EEG
The electroencephalogram, or EEG for short, is an incredibly fun apparatus. At least for me it was, i'm sure it must of sucked for the neurologist who was working on me. reason being because we begin by putting 24 little conductor plugs on my head. here is a small illustration.
I then proceeded to go through a series of tests, test one was one that included me opening and closing my eyes. the test went something like this: "ok close your eyes......................now open!........................now close.............................now open!.................................now close" you get the idea. After that test, I had to remain my eyes closed throughout the rest of the test. Then was test two, I was told to breath heavily and rapidly, more or less at the same rate that I would when I am running. so I did. The third test was the strobe light one, which I must say was the coolest one. I kept my eyes closed, and they began to flash a light at me, it started slowly, and then would stop, and then it would start again at a faster pace, then stop, and then faster and faster until I began techno dancing. After that test, it stopped, they told me they would say when I could get up and kept quiet for a good ten minutes. so proceeded to take a nap. I wake up and they tell me to get up.
after that we spoke to the Neurologist-epilepsy specialist. Which, I must say, was a really nice guy and was really good about answering my questions. after he read my results, he said that I have nothing wrong showing in the EEG results (great, I'm a fucking medical marvel....not good). here's a little illustration
this is me.
now this is an epileptic person
But there is this little area that he was wondering about in the right temporal lobe region of my brain. I know that means diddly shit to you people so just upper right region of my head. And with that we are taken to the next test that I had to take. And that is the Magnetic Resonance Imaging test.
2. The M.R.I.
The MRI is known to everyone. Anyone who has seen any movie remotely covering or just set in a hospital has probably heard about the MRI. This thing uses magnets (huge effin ones) to take a picture of my brain. This one is a much simpilar description of what went one. I took off my sweater, I lied on a bed, they put this football helmet type thing on me, told me to close my eyes, pushed me into the giant thingamajig. and I slept. When I woke up I was done.
now because of this test, I have to go back to the doctor on the fifteenth. and I'm gonna get to look at the right temporal region of my brain. I'm actually quite excited. Oh and we aren't sure if I have epilepsy or not. It could actually be something else.
You know, all of these things that are happening make me wish that I had paid attention to what my mother told me so long ago when I was young. If you want to know what it is, well too bad, cuz I wasn't listening.
so bye!
well first things first, Carlos and Checo have no excuse for not blogging for they are back in kingsville doing shit. This "shit" that I speak of is also known as training. But it doesn't last all day, and I know that they aren't do anything special. So get with the talking! Second, I went to monterrey, and I must say it was fun, because I played around with a lot of medical machinery, here's my experiences.
1. The EEG
The electroencephalogram, or EEG for short, is an incredibly fun apparatus. At least for me it was, i'm sure it must of sucked for the neurologist who was working on me. reason being because we begin by putting 24 little conductor plugs on my head. here is a small illustration.
I then proceeded to go through a series of tests, test one was one that included me opening and closing my eyes. the test went something like this: "ok close your eyes......................now open!........................now close.............................now open!.................................now close" you get the idea. After that test, I had to remain my eyes closed throughout the rest of the test. Then was test two, I was told to breath heavily and rapidly, more or less at the same rate that I would when I am running. so I did. The third test was the strobe light one, which I must say was the coolest one. I kept my eyes closed, and they began to flash a light at me, it started slowly, and then would stop, and then it would start again at a faster pace, then stop, and then faster and faster until I began techno dancing. After that test, it stopped, they told me they would say when I could get up and kept quiet for a good ten minutes. so proceeded to take a nap. I wake up and they tell me to get up.
after that we spoke to the Neurologist-epilepsy specialist. Which, I must say, was a really nice guy and was really good about answering my questions. after he read my results, he said that I have nothing wrong showing in the EEG results (great, I'm a fucking medical marvel....not good). here's a little illustration
this is me.
now this is an epileptic person
But there is this little area that he was wondering about in the right temporal lobe region of my brain. I know that means diddly shit to you people so just upper right region of my head. And with that we are taken to the next test that I had to take. And that is the Magnetic Resonance Imaging test.
2. The M.R.I.
The MRI is known to everyone. Anyone who has seen any movie remotely covering or just set in a hospital has probably heard about the MRI. This thing uses magnets (huge effin ones) to take a picture of my brain. This one is a much simpilar description of what went one. I took off my sweater, I lied on a bed, they put this football helmet type thing on me, told me to close my eyes, pushed me into the giant thingamajig. and I slept. When I woke up I was done.
now because of this test, I have to go back to the doctor on the fifteenth. and I'm gonna get to look at the right temporal region of my brain. I'm actually quite excited. Oh and we aren't sure if I have epilepsy or not. It could actually be something else.
You know, all of these things that are happening make me wish that I had paid attention to what my mother told me so long ago when I was young. If you want to know what it is, well too bad, cuz I wasn't listening.
so bye!
posted by ingenium at 2:29 PM
1 Comments:
hehehe i have shit inside my brain too. it sucks because then they want to do those MRI things every 6 months. so if you do have to, i recommend the one in the brownsville hospital by central they give you these cool looking glasses and head phones where you can watch the first 45 min of a movie before you can get out.
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