I had a scheduled CT Scan today; yeah, I know, aren’t I lucky. It should have been a simple 15-minute procedure, but as you might have guessed it wasn’t. They performed the initial scan and then came back into to set up the dye push. They warn you that as the dye enters your system you will have sensations of warmth, being wet and possibly that you wet our pants. So, they set me up and put my arms behind my head. They left the room and I felt the warmth run down my arm, my neck and my back. The scan started once again and I lay there feeling weird and all the warm and wet feelings they warned me about. I felt it run down my arm across my neck and down my back. The sensations were more real than they explained, but I just lied there quietly.

After a short pause the technicians came in and asked me to not open my eyes. They explained that a valve burst or seal was not set and my catheter was draining all the dye out and I was draining blood as well. I had bled all over my arm on the table and that was mixed with a clear sticky warm dye. I knew the sensations seemed too real.

They cleaned up the table and me, just to do it all over again. Needless to say it was not nearly 15 minutes, but closer to an hour.