Cherry Blossom Adventures

In an effort to improve on my writing I have decided to sign up for Encyclopedia of me which started over at Bella Dia (and which I found out about by reading Laura`s blog here...)… participating in this hasn`t actually improved my writing at all but I still live in hope…

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X is for x-rays…

There are not many options for the letter “x”…but it was one of the easier choices of topics.

See I have probably had more x-rays in my 23 years of life than my father, mother & brother have had all added up. I was an accident prone child always falling over, always twisting something or pulling something and constantly at the doctors having x-rays for all different parts of my body. In this x-ray category I am including cat scans, bone scans and any other kind of scan you can think of. My first x-ray, that I remember, was when I was five and squashed my foot in a bike (between the peddle, wheel & spokes). It was my left foot, and to date that is the body part that has caused me the most trouble in my relatively short life. There were no broken bones…it was just a sprain.

I was a runner when I was younger (hard to believe now I know) and was constantly rolling my ankles or knees and ending up on crutches after x-rays- in fact when I was in highschool and on crutches for what was probably the tenth time my parents decided to just buy some crutches so that they could stop borrowing them from the chemist or hospital. Of my ankles alone I would say I have had at least 15 x-rays & bone scans.

Having braces at the end of primary school meant teeth x-rays…lots of them.

In highschool a friends ex boyfriend twisted my hand (long story) and then I sailed all weekend and it swelled up to three times the size and a week later I had an x-ray. The found a chip I think? Then I got angry one day six months later and  slammed my hand down on the kitchen bench (I couldn`t find chocolate- that is why I was angry) and it swelled up again. More x-rays. Then several months later it swelled up for no reason (I woke up and it was fat) and I had more x-rays- they found nothing & now I just have a slight lump on that hand…even now.

Dislocated my shoulder (I fell out of an above ground pool- I may have been a little drunk)- more x-rays…dislocated it again in Japan running into my bedroom doorway. Had another x-ray and there was a cracked bone.

There was also some finger x-rays in there…and a head x-ray or two (one in Japan when the crazy guy hit me on the head with the beer glass and split my head open). Had some torn cartlidge in my ribs last year and had a couple of x-rays then too…no broken ribs though.

Plus in Japan they are fans of doing chest x-rays and I had to have a couple for visa`s in the past. (and for some reason whenever I go to the doctors in Japan with ashtma they usually take a chest x-ray then too)

So yeah, you could say I am SLIGHTLY accident prone…and have had too many x-rays. So many in fact that  they now make me wear a lead coat to prevent me from becoming radioactive!!! I don`t think there is a body part I have not had x-rayed…

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