Nope, still not looking forward to the needles...

[riazendira]

Tomorrow is my 3 month follow up of my surgery. I have to have another contrast MRI (injection with some strange substance that shows up better in MRI, then staying very very very still for an hour and a half while laying on my chest with at least one arm straight out above my head ah la Superman... yeah, fun times. Not.) Then the actual follow up

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[riazendira]

I have no idea how I stayed still on my front for that long- I think mostly because my friend stayed in the room with me and made funny faces at me and generally distracted me from the MRI. Today they did the whole thing a different way, and I ended up on my back, but having to hold my breath for 15 seconds out of every 30 or so. Plus, they gave me headphones with my choice of Pandora stations, so that was great. Overall, I must rate the Hopkins MRI experience as excellent (for the given value of having a contrast MRI) and far superior to the other place I went.

Wait, what color is your hair now? I ended up asking strangers about hair cuts, in addition to friends and family, in order to get a less biased perspective. The best opinion though, was my stylist's, who I trust a great deal because she's never steered me wrong yet. I ended up with the asymmetrical bob with red highlights. I'm not sure I'll ever do highlights again because they took so long, but they do look pretty.

Tell you what- no promises - but if you leave me a little prompt (the more visual the better for me) in one of my fandoms, I'll write you a little Christmas gift if I have the time while I'm at home avoiding family. :-D

Thank you for the good luck! It must have worked, because my day went pretty darn well even given that I spent 5 hours in the hospital.

[cold_shuga]

so did they give you a reason for doing it differently? I am very happy to hear that you had a lovely experience. I generally have a good time with medical things because i have this terrible infliction called "able to chat with perfect strangers and make friends everywhere". It drives everyone batty but at least i am never alone!

you hair sounds gorgeous. i would love to have an exciting, modern do. with colours. mine is dark, dark blonde (use to be light blonde but apparently getting ill made my hair change colour....go figure. could be worse...it could have fallen out). all one length past my shoulds. it is wavey so i always straighten it and THEN wear it in a pony tail. I would LOVE to be cool but i just don't have to patience (a) to do my hair and (b) sit thru the hair colouring thing. it takes ages. and it smells.

now...prompt. Hmmmmm. let me think about it. *strokes imaginery beard*

[riazendira]

This place just does it differently than the other place, no particular reason other than training I guess. Making friends everywhere is totally my policy too! :-D

I don't have a lot of patience with doing my hair on a daily basis either, so I sympathize there. I will probably only "properly" do this hair cut every 2-3 weeks, drying it, curling it under, etc. The rest of the time, I'll just have it a little less than "optimal" but still cute. I have hair that other than the curl because I tuck it behind my ear so often, has little or no wave to it at all, except at the very bottom, so it looks okay without too much fuss. It helps that I'm not overly picky about it either, so I don't actually worry to much. My hair is dark blonde too, now with new improved red bits. I don't think I'll ever do the coloring again either, it really does take too long and smell. But, nice to do once in one's life, right?

Got your message, sent one back. :-D