This is one new place I'd rather not have been.
I had to get an x-ray of my stomach, a "small bowel GI series." For those of you that know what that entails, you'll know why I'd rather not have gone. For those that don't, I'll spare you the details. What I anticipated to be a single x-ray after drinking a tablespoon or two of 'contrast' an a relatively quick experience (under an hour) turned out to be a four-hour endeavor of me drinking almost two liters of a most unpleasant Barium contrast, having at least 10 x-rays and being rotated from standing to lying down back to standing on the electronic adjustable x-ray table.
I really hope I won't have to go back to 2nd Floor, Radiology any time soon. Or ever.
I had to get an x-ray of my stomach, a "small bowel GI series." For those of you that know what that entails, you'll know why I'd rather not have gone. For those that don't, I'll spare you the details. What I anticipated to be a single x-ray after drinking a tablespoon or two of 'contrast' an a relatively quick experience (under an hour) turned out to be a four-hour endeavor of me drinking almost two liters of a most unpleasant Barium contrast, having at least 10 x-rays and being rotated from standing to lying down back to standing on the electronic adjustable x-ray table.
I really hope I won't have to go back to 2nd Floor, Radiology any time soon. Or ever.
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