Yesterday actually.
Went for an MRI scan on my knee (footy injury). For the uninitiated, the MRI scanner is that big tube in the hospital you get stuck in with industrial magnets and lasers aimed at you.

Now apparently most people feel quite claustrophobic in these machines, but I wasn't too worried about that. What I was worried about was the fact that I had a previous injury with a metal rod and my eye when I was about 6, it was so minor that It didn't even occur to me as I was being asked varying degrees of pre scan questions from a checklist about injuries and implants related to metal.

It only registered when I was lying in the scanner that if there was a fragment of metal in my eye, no matter how small, that it would be ripped out of my relatively soft eye tissue faster than a speeding bullet.

Thankfully, by the time I actually realised this I also realised that if it was going to happen it would have already done so, but for that brief second in time it was the genuinely scariest thing that I've been through.

So to answer your question. Very brown. Figuratively speaking of course.
( Sipowicz Official member of Team Seam, Thu 5 Apr 2012, 19:30, 4 replies)

argh!

( real i'm not happy 'til you're not happy, Fri 6 Apr 2012, 16:24, closed)

this happened to me
I was a sent for an MRI scan, and it was only on the day when I remembered that I have metal clips and screw holding the blood vessels in my brain together after a craniotomy I had when the clips couldn't be certified as MRI safe.

Trying to imagine my brain being sucked out through my ear!
( h3donist tryin' to play me out as if my name is Sega.., Mon 9 Apr 2012, 14:08, closed)

sorry to be a cunt
but if you have an MRI scan on your knee, your eye goes nowhere near the machine

so you're lying about being scared, why would you do that? to make friends?
(FRIZ my baby died on, Tue 10 Apr 2012, 22:54, closed)

What part of industrial magnets don't you understand?
Having anything metal anywhere in your body anywhere in the vicinity of an MRI when it's turned on would eviscerate you. Don't be such a cockweasel
(Apothecaries' weight - I'm a cyborg, but that's OK, Thu 12 Apr 2012, 3:35, closed)