Warning: A very serious sax-related health problem

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Al Stevens

Discussion Starter · Aug 22, 2007

Don't do what I did.

Today I had an MRI so they can look at my brain. The technician got me all set up with headphones and said I'd have to lay perfectly still for about 45 minutes. The headphones were to block the loud noise of the machine, which sounds like a jackhammer. He asked what kind of music I like. I said, "Jazz."

Big mistake. Really big mistake. I had to lay perfectly still and say nothing as I was forced to listen to 45 minutes of Kenny G.

I wonder what effect that had on the readings. Wait until the interrogators at Guantanamo Bay hear about this.

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JavaWolf

· #21 · Aug 23, 2007

Wow... I feel for you. When I had an MRI done they didn't ask my preference. I got stuck with a painful mix of country and "modern rock". One of the worst 45 minutes of my life.

Photo Matt

· #22 · Aug 23, 2007

I once had to have a shot of novocaine to the nose at the doctor's office. A very pretty nurse gave me the shot, and the pain made my eyes tear up involuntarily. So much for impressing the nurse! Even worse, that Kenny G song that was so popular at the time was playing on the overhead speaker. I feel for you!

LoVeTheBlues

· #23 · Aug 24, 2007

Good to know, if I have an MRI, I'll bring my own Kenny G

Canadiain

· #24 · Aug 24, 2007

Hey, this could catch on in the UK and Canada....as word spreads of the horror, waiting times for scans will mysteriously drop, and the government can take the credit for a cost effective way of reducing waiting lists

Rick Adams

· #25 · Aug 24, 2007

Heh, poor old Al, that made me laugh and wince in sympathy!

potiphar

· #26 · Aug 24, 2007

An MRI technician told me the only recorded fatality in a scanner was when somebody was unlucky enough to have a heart attack whilst being screened. The technicians called the cardiac arrest team, but forgot to switch the machine off. So the nurse rushes in with a large oxygen cylinder... which promptly gets sucked by the magnetic field into the tunnel. Nasty. No more Kenny G.

Of course, I don't want to put any of you guys off.

hakukani

· #27 · Aug 24, 2007

Not quite true. It was actually a six year old boy, and his oxygen tank failed. Here's an interesting link to different accidents:

http://www.mindfully.org/Technology/2005/MRI-Magnet-Accidents19aug05.htm

...and in the spirit of this thread, I must include a link to the 'Music for Magnets' site with the 'top tunes' techs like to play for their patients.

http://www.users.on.net/~bsm/greg/music/

jazzbluescat

· #28 · Aug 25, 2007

Canadiain said:
Hey, this could catch on in the UK and Canada....as word spreads of the horror, waiting times for scans will mysteriously drop, and the government can take the credit for a cost effective way of reducing waiting lists

Heck, don't limit it to scans, apply the KG cure in all hospital ERs too.....or, maybe I could just load a KG disc in my boombox and play it in the ER when I "visit." It'd clear the ER waiting room, might even help Medicare. :twisted: I digress.

LazySaxman

· #29 · Aug 25, 2007

So, did he just hold one note for the whole 45 minutes or what? :laughing:

:help:

gary

· #30 · Aug 25, 2007

So. Al. How goes it?

Joe Jazz

· #31 · Sep 12, 2007

I of course requested smooth jazz during my last(and first)MRI. It helped me fight off the minor claustrophobia and the worry that they would pull me out of the tube without warning and break my arms......it was a bit of a tight fit

. No Kenny G, doggone it!

Phil Emerson

· #32 · Sep 12, 2007

Someone told me G is a great player

....... and grossly misrepresented. I am told he has a fine technique and superb tone; that his phrasing is as lyrical as Shakespeare and his command of rhythm second to none.

............... just out of interest does anybody agree with my learned friend's diagnosis? I wouldn't know myself as I always heard the word as 'kenigy' and assumed people were referring to some trendy drink favoured by athletes.

silly old me.

ps I also have had an MRI scan where my musical centre was found to be missing - oh well, that explains a lot - bye bye

milandro

· #33 · Sep 12, 2007

silvin said:
Funny, here in France it's exactly the opposite: we say IRM ....

Besides being the only Folks in the world who call the Computer an Ordinateur......and anything digital, numerique, you probably do many other and more interesting things upside down and back to front there in France!

....as much as we do in Italy ( I am Italian besides being Dutch....it's a long story

)

However Kenny G is a torture Guantanamo style indeed or probably was integrated in kind of shock therapy.....new horizonts of medicine you see....
seriously,hope you are alright Al?

Joe Jazz

· #34 · Sep 12, 2007

Anybody know any Kenigy drinking songs?:shock:

Jazzed

· #35 · Sep 12, 2007

I had a MRI this week too. I was assaulted by smooth jazz as well; they didn't ask me what I wanted to hear. It was messing with me because the music was in 4/4 but the MRI machine "pulsed" in rounds of 10. The clashing tempos really were unpleasant. I would have rather had no music at all.

betelsax

· #36 · Sep 13, 2007

Al's MRI scans, before and after:

hakukani

· #37 · Sep 13, 2007

<engage Deniro voice>

Kenigy? Kenny G? Kenny....Geeee? Ken edgy?

JimD

· #38 · Sep 13, 2007

That's what's known in the trade as aversion therapy. I spent one summer working as a lift man and the store played the same three Manhattan Transfer songs over and over and over for two weeks; they were coming to do a gig. I run screaming if I hear even a note of them. With the MRI the obvious choice is Heavy Metal.

eidollon

· #39 · Sep 13, 2007

Al Stevens said:
I was forced to listen to 45 minutes of Kenny G.

Naaah ... what you heard was just a machine beeep - not Kenny G doing 45 min circular breathing.

jrvinson45

· #40 · Sep 13, 2007

Don't fret betelsax,
I thought it was hilarious!
Well done.

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