Our Experience MRI Equipment
A few years ago while in a horrific car accident my cousin had to go in regularly for MRI scans of his head and neck. Fortunately he had survived an otherwise indescribably head on collision with a semi with only a few seemingly minor injuries. The driver of the other car did not. Immediately following the accident it was found that he had several fragments of the windshield, rear view mirror, and other debris lodged in his head and neck. Once at the hospital he went through several CT and MRI scans. Initially they weren’t sure if he could see after the accident and what repercussions would evolve after removing the debris. His daughter had several questions at the time, and wanted to know what each machine did.
When she first saw the CT and MRI equipment she thought as many children that it looked like a donut. She recognized other equipment from television and before her younger siblings were born such as when the doctor used ultrasound equipment to monitor her mother during pregnancy.
I don’t know if the machine were new or refurbished MRI equipment, but our fear, while she was trying to run around at see all that she could, was that she might accidentally break something. Fortunately we stayed relatively safe, and surprisingly enough she was not afraid of seeing her father with his minor injuries or the exams performed.
