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I feel like he would remember if it was the brain just because they click in a cage thing over your head for the duration of the scan. I get an MRI of my brain once a year for my MS and I would never forget getting one. But hey, who knows, he's going senile. Maybe he forgot. Or maybe he has some kind of disease in a different part of his body that needs an MRI to diagnose.
Or he's lying because he doesn't want to admit to having the cognitive issues he clearly has. Or possibly just because he's so used to lying at this point it's just automatic.
Ah yes, that's probably the most likely. Although I could also just see him not being informed what's going on in his body because they think he'll just blab it out one day.
Um, what the fuck? Do you understand how medical consent occurs in America?
This would require someone have the power to consent for him and have medical decision make power. That's a far more wild accusation.
I mean this is hypothetical but they could have told him the general stuff without the details of what's actually wrong. Like "something is wrong with your pancreas" instead of "your pancreas is utterly failing because of xyz". I've personally experienced doctors doing this with my own medical issues (I found out later by switching doctors) and while it's salacious to not tell a patient the entire truth, some asshole doctors don't. Add in that patients with dementia are often viewed as incapable so aren't informed of everything as much and yeah I could see it happening. Especially since if he has dementia then someone is likely more knowledgeable of that situation than him and likely would have been informed of the details of the MRI in full instead of him. This also isn't far off from what was going on with Reagan.
But this is, again, a hypothetical and it's much more likely he doesn't remember or he is lying.
Weird I got a brain MRI scan about 4 years ago and there was no cage
Edit: I am in no way defending Trump, just curious about the MRI experience. Trump is a pedo fascist fuck with dementia
There are some newer portable MRIs that kinda look like this
I am so jealous. I've been getting them for about a decade now and have always had a cage.
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Right now, my mum is developing dementia (we're waiting on tests to help with a definitive diagnosis). Her memory is very bad, and getting worse. She can forget what she said in one sentence by the time she is part way through the next. If it wasn't terrible it would be amazing - like she fully 100% has no idea what she said and sometimes will even argue that she didn't say that thing. So I think it's completely within the realms of possibility that he doesn't remember.
I also think that he doesn't care enough about any of this to even register the information as worth remembering in the first place. He's a shitty cunt regardless of the objective assessment of his mental state.
Dementia got my Dad. It's not easy. Remember who they were, ease their way, and don't judge what they become.
I believe his dementia is full-on and the traitors around him are propping him up to serve their own ends. He's being used as a puppet and that's dangerous for someone who commands so much power.
Also not defending chester Cheeto. But I'm curious why they make you do the cage. That thing absolutely terrifies me, and I was so glad they never made me use it when they were scanning my brain because of my chairi malformation. Maybe it's because it's my brain stem they're looking at?
At any rate, I'm so sorry you have to go through that. I can't imagine. Literal nightmare fuel
I've had scans for my brain and neck area and they've used a cage always. And the last time they did the neck they did this extra big cage just for that section. It fucking sucks. It's possible it's just because I'm in a red state that hasn't had as much investment in it for medical tech so things are more outdated. Or the people hate me and want me to suffer in that cage. Probably that first one. Or they just need to because they're scanning the whole brain maybe? I dunno. I just know that I have them put a washcloth over my eyes so I can't see it because, like you said, nightmare fuel.
:( God, that's awful. It's making me wonder if they're going to do it to me when I get my next scan. I haven't had one since I was 14 (34 now...), and I was in Virginia then. Doc told me a couple years ago I should probably get a scan sometime soon to confirm everything is okay. It'll either be in Tennessee or South Carolina this time around.
Do they use the mesh one that hardens in place on you?
If you mean the washcloth then no, it's just a normal washcloth that you would use at home. They just lay it over my eyes and I can't see the cage so it's easier to convince myself it's not there.
If you end up getting another one, they say that you shouldn't move at all during the scan and that's not quite true. There are multiple scans and you can quickly adjust in the lul between loud dub step noises. When I'm not sleeping through the scan I'll take those few seconds to adjust and get more comfy. Just some advice. Those spots also might be harder to hear if you listen to music just fyi, I don't.
i was confusing the mask for the cage. I thought you were talking about one of these, but apparently they are for oncology treatments.
Still, the cage would be awful. The washcloth is a great idea. I panicked really badly my first time in an MRI when I was a kid. I got to a point by 14, when I had my last one, where I was mostly okay... But it being 20 years, I don't know how I'll handle it when I get the next one, especially if they introduce a cage >.<