Medical History
In February of this year, 2004 an orthopaedic surgeon suggested that I have an MRI scan done with a view to possible spinal surgery to alleviate chronic back and leg pain. Two days before the scan was due to be done under general anaesthetic, I happened to mention to staff in the radiology department that I might have metal in my body - possibly in my head. A decision was made to do an x-ray as a matter of urgency.
There was an eerie silence in the x-ray department as a radiographer suggested that I should wait to see a radiologist. The radiologist informed me that and MRI scan would not be done because "there is what appears to be metal in your head".
I asked to see the x-rays. I realised the "picture" was the head of a 52 year old male but in a flash I was catapulted back to waking in a hospital bed following brain surgery - I was 9 years old. I was traumatised. My suspicion of metal in my head was now a reality. 40 years on, I was seeing what I had so often suspected but could never prove - until now.
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I've been unable to find what these "bits and pieces" are. I've been unable to find out what they were used for or why they were left there. What I have been told by one expert in the field of neurosurgery was that it would "be dangerous to remove them at this stage".
Why I would put pictures such as these on a website? Answer: In the hope that someone will be able to tell me what the point of inserting these bits was and why were they left there? If you know the answer to either of these questions then perhaps you would
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