I recently had to have a scan. B''h it wasn't for anything major and although I hope for a favorable outcome, as there is no life/death situation involved I was relatively calm. So after putting on an ICU (I see you) robe...well two actually as I still had to sit and wait in the waiting room for half an hour, I was told to lie down on this down tube-like bed and given a set of earphones to listen to some 'soft' music as it might be a bit noisy. Sounds comfy right? And as I can sleep through quite a lot of noise I thought it perfect for an afternoon nap, after all it was to take 30 min which is a lovely amount of time for a snooze. Then came that one instruction - 'YOU MAY NOT MOVE THROUGHOUT THIS SCAN' Okay I thought I can manage that, can't be that different to an x-ray. And then it started....
Now usually I haven't got a problem lying still but my brain decided otherwise, I suddenly felt so frigidity and spasmy my toes needed to wriggle and everything wanted to move. I tried going into the music...no luck, relaxing breathing....no luck, closing eyes.....even worse, quick open them again, by this time my brain was going into over-drive till I found an old favorite game to occupy me. As I could see the name of the machine stuck onto it, I tried to see how many words I could make using those letters and what was the highest word I could make.
Now my question to you - how would you occupy yourself for 30 minutes in a noisy environment without moving a cm?
3 comments:
Wow.....super difficult...
Good question. I like to do deep relaxation sometimes when I can't fall asleep. Basically, you relax each part of your body, only going on to the next part when the first part is all relaxed. I like starting from my toes and working up, cuz I find starting at my head is much harder. Funny thing...I don't think I ever lasted long enough to get all the way up to my head! I'm usually gone by then...
Try it...if you really concentrate and let go, it can feel amazing...
This might sound overly obsessed, but I'd probably write a blog pos in my head. It's a constant source of entertainment for me. I'm never bored. (Specially cuz I type them up on my iPod touch in places like waiting rooms, so seriously there is never boredom for me.)
The funny thing is that I did this before, but I didn't have a blog or anyone reading it, so most of the things I wrote in my head never got written down. (I guess I've always been a writer...)
I would also probably have a conversation with myself, but maybe I shouldn't admit to being so weird....
Hatzlacha with the results! Hope all is well. :-)
CP: I did start to try something similar but as soon as I wanted to relax a limb I felt that it was not in a comfortable position and wanted to move it - a big no no, so had to drop that idea.
SD: :) Like that idea but not a good track record as all those great blogs I think up on shabbos never stay in my head long enough for me to get them down into paper...
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