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Flori,,,,,,You will be in my thoughts and prayers,,,,,I had an MRI once for my lower back, and I'm laying there sliding up into "the Tube" and then when the man-conveyor stopped, all of the 1960's Star Trek noises began. Whirrrr,whirrr and I'm thinking "that sounds just like my cord-less drill" and then tink-tink-tink "that's like when Yukon Cornelius was tink-hammering for gold" and then when all of the Space Odyssey noises began, I had an epiphany, and realized that this was all a sham, for two reasons. One-this machine didn't have to make all of these odd-ball noises to check out my back, and Two-I shouldn't have to listen to all of this racket while I'm trying to sleep (yes, I did), so once it was over,, I did some in-depth research on my own. What I discovered was a little disturbing. In the late 1970's a down-on-his-luck Dr. Morton Raymond Integer approached a major medical equipment manufacturer with an idea to market and mass produce a conveyor-type x-ray system, but his idea was initially rejected. The marketing VP explained that an X-ray costs 100 dollars and Dr. Integer wanted to charge 2000 dollars for his conveyor x-ray. Dr. Integer stroked his beard and said, "what if I add sound effects, and call it 'MRI' ?" The Marketing VP said, "mister, we gotta deal"
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For Nicola
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