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What an MRI scan reveals about back pain
When a physician orders an MRI scan, there is specific information that he or she is looking for. Information that is typically gleaned from MRI results include:

Spinal alignment
Disc height and hydration
Vertebral body configuration
Intervertebral disc - how does the disc appear? Is it normal, bulging, herniated, dehydrated or degenerated?
Spinal canal size - is it sufficient to comfortably accommodate the spinal cord and nerves? Is there spinal cord or nerve root compression?
Nerves - are the nerves “pinched” (compressed) or inflamed anywhere?
Abnormalities - are there any abnormalities near the spine that might simulate spinal pain?
Spinal cord - is the spinal cord normal in physical appearance?
If post-surgery - has anything changed since surgery? Is there another disc herniation, postoperative scarring or infection?

Often, based on the patient’s medical history and physical exam, the treating physician will already have an idea of what he or she is looking for on the MRI scan results.

so i did my MRI on wednesday. the process is all about lying still for half an hour. the moment it started, my right rib muscle started cramping. always happens. there's lots of thumping, banging, knocking, heat-wave weaponry sounding devices and all sorts of science fiction sound effects. i was quite afraid if the mri turned out negative; i'd be charged for malingering and the sentence is kinda steep. but after talking to a few colleagues i realised my problem is rather bad it can't be faked. after reading about mri and back pains and leg pains i still arrive at a possible diagnosis. call it a slipped disc, bulging nerve, ruptured disc, herniated disc whatever you will, maybe even pinched nerve. they all sound as scary with the debatable exemption of pinched nerve. but pinched nerve is what i fear the most, because its the manifested pain in the leg. bummer. hurts so much i'll be on painkillers until i get diagnosed accurately and maybe get a surgery.

so far the people in the army i've met have said that i'm smart. using my back pathology to put me out of course, to get out of my current vocation, to delay the period for revocation while pending my results, to have let me pretty much do nothing much military for the past 1 month (and the upcoming one too). regardless, its only because i wanted the army to pay for that damned mri, and i didn't want to have forked out a single cent because it wasn't worth it. and in the process of getting it, well, i got my break. i waited one whole month since enlistment just to get the mri. i'll be waiting a fortnight for the results, and maybe another two weeks for a very-likely revocation to the post of clerk. and i already know my boss wants me to stay put in her office; she needs clerks. i'm one of 4 LOBOs(informal term: left out of battalion orders) but its obvious she's doing her best to put them as fit for driving as possible while putting me as unfit as possible. they have medical conditions too, but she just doesn't want them. the reason is due to education. it is really just THAT. my other lesser boss, the chief clerk had thought me to be on the same level as 'them' too. but when i saw him at amk hub and told him i went back to aj for the funfair, his face betrayed him. literally glittered with a bliss of 'i didn't know you were from aj!' hah. now that's 2 bosses wanting me for the office. and i want to be in that office because its really one of the slackest places you can hope to work in, right in the army.

yes the army has done many things to me. it made me depressed, made me a demented soul, amongst other debilitating effects. but my office ppl are kinda helping me get back to life. my classmates commented that i'm now a person who's full of stereotypes. haha. i just can't help it now. with statements like '75% mat, 25% ah beng' i'm really going nowhere. company 'korm-per-nee' is another word i keep repeating to much self-amusement and delight. but rather than appearing as a racist because the differences really are everywhere and kind of accentuated, i think i've become more understanding of everyone.

its been a full year since i last went singing at kbox, and it was with hong zhi. yesterday i went with a few of my classmates, really enjoyed it alot. thank you for the music haha. though i can shamelessly proclaim myself as the most musically inclined singer wahahhaha. 6 hours of singing madness. 6 hours of screaming and uncommon expressions, all at the expense of caryn, charlene and jian qi. wee liang was my buddy in crime. the funniest part was when wee liang randomly selected a song called volare by zhang fei. its an italian song which no one ever heard of before, but i just took it up and started piecing the song together by noticing the chord patterns...i must have been possessed! i'm amazed at my own talent! ahahahhaha....shameless...i think i'll go buy the Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion by the end of this week and pray it works on my comp!

"plak!";
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