day2-brain scans

today was the second day of my scans---

the appointment started at 10:00AM, but it was pushed back till 11:15AM- dad and i took a quick look at the jelly belly factory, but didnt have enough time to take the tour- just check the giftshops--- we got back to the clinic and started with the history part, previously we were given a 20 page questionnaire to fill out, so today we worked with that mostly- we spent about one hour with 'Bob' our historian- he just basically followed up with the forms, making sure everything we wrote down made sense, and perhaps rewording a few things---- at the end he asked me to remember three things, 1.a red ball 2. mona lisa 3. shitaqua(an Indian tribe) he asked me a few questions in between then had me say the 3 items to him, i remembered.. mostly because i pictured mona lisa with a red ball on her head, and then i remembered shitaqua because there was a little bear figurine there and i pictured him 'shiting'+ 'aqua'...hehehe so silly he asked me a few other things, like how many floors were in the buiding we were in(one), what his name was(i only knew cuz it said on the clipboard i signed), what 3 similarities were with a Bike and an Airplane-- i said 1. sitting 2. seeing/windows 3. they were long --- yes weird.. he also asked me to spell my name backwards- leahcar noslekcim- i forgot the K in the last name- but i did the rest-- leahcar with no problems- so that was that-

after the historian, we had the final brain scan, this was was a relaxation scan, so i was to just sit in the same small room and just relax, this IV didnt hurt as much, it was in my right arm this time...this time i was alone, and the door was mostly closed- i dont really remember what i thought about, but again about 7 min into, Mike came in and gave me the medicine, and back to relaxing i was--- then he took me into the scanning room..and same routein, on the bed with the pillow under my knees, the bedsheet supporting my arms, a pillowcase covering my eyes and holding me head still, and a blanket on top- this one was a little harder, because i had already been relaxing, so to keep relaxing was a bit tricky-- there was a point where i needed to cough, it felt like something was in my throat, but i wasnt supposed to move, so it was difficult-- i just had to swallow deep and not move-- i guess i did ok though-- anyway that was it, after that, dad and i left---



we went to carls jr again for lunch- i had the same thing- a chicken club sandwich- it was good--- today we took our sightseeing day=

we started off going across the Golden Gate Bridge- (we had to pay 5$ too!) we got into san-fran and went to the golden gate park- it was a lot of fun, smelt the roses in the rose garden- we went to a japanese tea garden(4$ each) very pretty and tranquil! then we went to an observatory and both pushed our height limit-- i was starting to get a bit woosey, but thankfully the observatory was closing in 5 min... i secretly think dad was ready to go too-- but he wouldnt admit it---

after the park we drove into the city-- San Fransisco--- very dirty, and old-- not somewhere i would want to live--- we drove down Lombard street(halfway down anyway) and then to Fishermans Warf-- we stoped at some coffee shop (California Adventure Coffee Shop) and i had a wonderful Chai Latte- (Oregon chai if you care) -- then took an hour walk around the warf-- it was quite fishy smelling, and too many tourists for my liking-- i have never been a fan of the tourists--

we even saw the "Bush Man", aunt margo said that if anyway knew san-fran, then they would know the bush man-- he would hide behind some branches and every once in a while he would just kinda peek out and say boo or aughh or something startling-- it was quite silly to see

but still, too many tourists for me- so we got out of there- we came right back to the Olson Casa- had some of uncle jeffs good cooking and thats about all today had- it was nice-

tomorrow we get to find out the final results- we have a 2 hour sessions to find out what type of a brain i have(no, i dont have a monkey brain...or a pig brain) hehe :)


so yep-- then on friday, its back to utah-- woooopieeeee!