MRI

I finally got in for the MRI on the study that Seth and I were doing.  I didn't wiggle (as Seth told me), but I didn't do all of the tests.  They had me doing a 20 min test with music, a 60 min one watching a movie and a 20 min one with nothing to distract me.  The music one went well.  I didn't enjoy being that enclosed, but I didn't feel in danger. After the 20 min test, I asked if I could get out and wiggle my elbows a little because they were stuck up against the side of the MRI.  They said that the 60 min one was in the other room so that would be fine.  They got a movie set up (they were all fairly weird movies, but oh well) and got me onto the table.  This time they put me in and I felt like I couldn't breathe.  She even told me to flatten out my hands so that I'd have more room.... uh yeah, that makes so much more room.  I told them that I was struggling and didn't think I could sit there for 60 minutes not being able to breathe.  They pulled me out and one lady told me that this machine was about 4.5 inches smaller and the other one said that the table was up higher in the machine as well.  No wonder I couldn't breathe!  One machine is 70 cm and the other was 60cm.  So while I still technically fit in the machine, there was no wiggle room at all with the table up higher (So Seth, I didn't really have a choice).  They said that they have had to stop for a lot of different reasons and not to worry about it.  They would use the data that they had collected and wish me well.  They gave me the results from my IQ test which was fun to see, promised that the money they were paying would come in the mail and I left.  I wish I could have helped them more, but there it is.

I don't really know anything about how IQ tests results are read, but they did give break down percentages in the areas.  In Working Memory I got my worst score, in the 55% and in Perceptual Organization I got my highest score a 99%.  That's how I felt I did, so I wasn't too surprised.  I struggled with memory (especially the numbers memory) exercises and did the picture and identifying exercising went very well.  They still haven't given me Seth's IQ test results, but she said she would get them to me.