I’m going to start this story on May 9th. Weird thing happened that morning. I let the dogs in and closed the sliding glass door, my hand and lower arm started getting numb, tingly and prickly.  I thought, hmm, that’s weird…maybe I pulled a muscle or something.  It was still feeling that way by the time I got to work. About an hour later, it was spreading to my face and then I thought, “Holy crap (I am pretty sure it may have been a more explicative word in my head)! Am I having a stroke? I went to the Tennova ER. Well, tons of test and a lot of poking and prodding later, they couldn’t figure anything out. They didn’t see any signs of a stroke, Bell’s Palsy or no sign of Multiple Sclerosis. So, they sent me home and told me to follow up with my primary doc.

Next day, I see my primary doctor and she ordered an x-ray of my neck and referred me to a Neurologist. Finally got in to see the neurologist and they did a nerve conduction study only to find nothing. Sooooooo, my neurologist ordered a CT scan of my spine, Echocardiogram and a head MRI with contrast, contrast is the dye that allows the results to be seen differently and better. (here’s where the funny part starts)

I got my test done on Friday in Nashville. I get in and get the CT and Echo done. Now it’s time for the MRI…I get the port stuck in my arm and honestly, after all the vaccines, it really didn’t hurt too much. I still can’t look when I’m getting a shot or blood taken…I’ll pass out, night night!

So, I’m laying there in the big MRI machine, things whirling around my head at a super fast pace. The tech tells me that the contrast will be injecting and said, “you’ll get a warm feeling all over.” I thought, “that will be a welcome change since it’s a little cold in here.”

The contrast goes in and I do get the warm feeling…but he sure wasn’t lying when he said it would be all over your body! I’m laying there with my eyes shut and then ALL OF A SUDDEN, my eyes pop WIDE open! That warm feeling?! OMG!  Here are my thoughts exactly in this order…1″Did I just pee my pants?” 2. “I’m holding it but the more I contract those muscles, the warmer it gets!” 3. “Did I just SERIOULSY, pee my pants????”

Once it was all over and I was super happy to find out I DID NOT PEE MY PANTS! The tech came in and said, “all done!”

I started giggling and laughing (almost hysterically) and he asked me what I was laughing at. I told him, “You seriously weren’t wrong about that “warm feeling” were you?” “I swear as I am sitting here, I could have sworn I peed my pants!”

He said, “We get that a lot, good thing for us, people don’t actually pee their pants!”

I will have you know, I did NOT pee my pants!