Your reward for getting through an MRI today with no Valium was a tasty little cupcake. During the procedure, you kept praying, “Lord, make me brave” and He did. You sobbed for fifteen minutes after it was over from the stress, but you made it through. You had picked up some cupcakes for the staff at the imaging center for being so patient, as it took them 20 minutes to get you to go into the tube. You had purchased one for yourself in hopes that you would deserve a reward when it was all over.
The first time you had an MRI you went in head first had a full on panic attack, but you thought, since that was 10 years ago, this time you would be fine. You had never had a panic attack before that first MRI and you have not had one since. This second experience was also an open MRI, but you simply cannot control the anxiety around this procedure. The tears started the minute they rolled you out, and your heart is still beating so fast. It is crazy how you simply cannot control these emot