This is about her excellent "Full Measure" interview.
If only proof reading were still practiced:
“I’m about to lose my wife,” said Gena Norris.”
How about “life” instead of “wife”.
Just irritates me how amateur people are now.
Gadolinium is nasty stuff. I have to get it once a year for my MRIs and as soon as it hits the bloodstream around my stomach it makes me feel like I’m going to puke. Luckily that hasn’t happened yet since I really don’t feel like spewing inside an MRI tube. I’ve gotten to the point that I tell the tech to push it slowly and then wait about 30 seconds before they shove me back in the tube just in case.
It sounds like it’s not the MRI, but the gadolinium, that is the problem.
Something caused her problem, but I’m not sure Gd is the problem. With normal kidney function, the plasma half life of gadolinium is 90 minutes. 5 times 90, means Gd is gone in about 8 hours.
I sat right next to Chuck and his mother at a martial arts display at Madison square garden around 1974. A friend of my father got him ringside tickets and I had no idea who Chuck Norris was until my father told me. I around 11 years old and I remember Chuck asking me what grade I was in, if I did martial arts (I didn’t). Little did I know I was sitting next to the guy who invented pain, a man who was bitten by a cobra and after five days of excruciating pain the cobra died. The man who sued NBC, claiming Law and Order are trademarked names for his left and right legs. A man who wears sunglasses so that his eyes won’t hurt the sun. A guy who once kicked a horse in the chin. Its descendants today are known as giraffes.
When I was younger my appendix burst and I wound up in the ER. No clue what they put in me for contrast but yes, it burned like fire. My whole body. Lasted about 30 mins. Have had a lot of contrast scans since, since I had breast cancer, but nothing ever burned again.
I wish I could get an MRI. I use to be able to, as well as get the routine colonoscopy especially since I’m 54 and colon cancer runs in my family. But thanks to Obamacare, I no longer have health insurance. But I’m sure a lot of people who sneaked into this country have it. Direct threat to my life by Democrats and the RINOs who refuse to repeal and replace it.
I learned a long time ago many aspects of the medical field is a few steps up from witch doctors...
They mean well but arrogance sometimes leads them to made mistakes.
Twice in my life either because they didn’t care or were too busy they almost killed me...
Just recently my doctor changed one of my medication and never even asked me a question or went over the side effects...
After watching all the skin around my joints start to bubble up and develope a nasty rash did I read the side effects...
Top line was my exact issue...in bold...
“and that she did get better and I got my wife back.”
Thats only because the gadolinium finally figured out it was attacking the body of the wife of chuck norris and backed away out of fear of the consequences.
I am claustrophobic and regard my full-body MRI as the most horrific medical experience of my life. Not exaggerating when I say it is in the top 5 of the worst experiences of my life.
Oh, chit, MRI. You don’t want to piss off Chuck Norris.
Why do I think the doctor had a third home to pay for?
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Gadolinium possesses unusual metallurgical properties, to the extent that as little as 1.0 percent of gadolinium can significantly improve the workability and resistance to oxidation at high temperatures of iron, chromium, and related metals. Gadolinium as a metal or a salt absorbs neutrons, and it is, therefore, used sometimes for shielding in neutron radiography, and also in nuclear reactors.
Like most of the rare earths, gadolinium forms trivalent ions with fluorescent properties, and salts of gadolinium(III) are used as phosphors in various applications.
The kinds of gadolinium(III) ions occurring in water-soluble salts are toxic to mammals. However, chelated gadolinium(III) compounds are far less toxic because they carry gadolinium(III) through the kidneys, and out of the body, before the free ion can be released into the tissues. Because of its paramagnetic properties, solutions of chelated organic gadolinium complexes are used as intravenously administered gadolinium-based MRI contrast agents in medical magnetic resonance imaging.
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Wife cannot tolerate this stuff. Any MRI is done without any contrast dyes
As with most medications, gadolinium MRI contrast agents have a known risk of commonly mild and self-limiting adverse reactions. Unfortunately, pride, liability concerns, and dogmatic medical school teaching to “think horses, not zebras” leads most doctors to reflexively discount the possibility of severe adverse reactions to the medications they prescribe.