Fun Life of an MRI – The Weird Side of the Internet

Fun Life of an MRI – The Weird Side of the Internet – by Liam Sweeny.

When one thinks of all the good fun that can be had, few think of getting an MRI. Massive machinery pumping out an unmistakable cascade of loud knocks and whirs. I was lucky that my only MRI was my foot, no, not inside. As big as I am, the referral for the inside might have gone to the zoo. That and the fact that I can only afford pet insurance.

But interesting things happen in MRI machines. In a way, MRIs are the taxicabs of medical imaging. For starters, someone has given birth in an MRI. Yes, obviously it was on purpose. Not like she dropped a kid off on the way to check out her rotator cuff. They wanted to see it as it happened live.

There’s actually a procedure called MRI Defecograpgy. Defec-.. Yup, exactly what it sounds like – pooping in an MRI. And this one happens all the time.

They’ve tested fear in the brain by putting people in there with snakes and tarantulas. That wouldn’t even work on me, love snakes and spiders. And they’ve gotten jazz players to play while in the machine.

But here’s the best one. A couple had sex in it. You may be guessing how, as an MRI isn’t exactly the honeymoon suite. Spooning, that’s how you have to do it. I’m not sure what science is going to do with that, but “MRI Porn” just became a category on the porn sites.

So I’m imagining the next time I need an MRI for something, I’m going to go through like housekeeping and CSI combined, blacklighting the platform, with a towel and some of that antibacterial, anti-viral stuff in a plastic spray bottle, bringing my own towel ‘cause the hospital paper sheets don’t absorb a thing.

Props to the guy that can keep going through the noise of an MRI. He was truly down to get down.

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