I went and had an x-ray and ultrasound today on my wrist. The location I went to was the Central Sydney Imaging service, located in the RPAH Medical Centre, Lvl 1, entrance via Missenden Rd, Newtown.
I got there early, my appointment was 11:30am, but I check at the reception at 11:18am and didn't have to wait long before a young lady came and got me for the x-ray. The two imaging services were for my left wrist, since I was still experiencing intermittent unknown caused pains, where I wasn't even sure how I was using my wrist to cause it, and with such a long time I was given a referral to have the imaging done.
The x-ray took about two minutes, my wrist was laid upon the plate pad, she aligned the cross-hair and closed down the shutter so only the minimal amount of ray space was exposed, took one, moved my arm and turned it slightly, took another, moved and rotated perpendicularly before taking the final shot, so that all three images were on the same one film.
Then I was taken through to the ultrasound room where an older gentleman gelled up my wrist and used a very small head scanner to run some scans of my wrist from the dorsal and plantar planes, and also along the radial aspect. He said it looked pretty normal.
Then... the wait. I was told that it would be about 40-45 minute wait, I could do that or come back. I figured by the time I went back to my office, I'd get about 15 minutes before I'd have to walk back again, so I might as well just wait. I read a magazine (the ABC publication of Delicious), and then started to watch the movie Mask (starring Cher, about the life of Roy L "rocky" Dennis [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_L._Dennis]). Then an hour and a half I checked again and was told it was still being looked at by the doctor. Then at the two hour mark again, before finally someone went in and got it at nearly two and a half hours. She said that it looked like it had been done, but was just sitting on the desk. -_-;
Honestly, I think that's quite pathetic for service. Had I gone away and come back an hour later, I still would have been stuck for over another hour waiting for it.... Don't tell people it'll be 40-45min if it takes more than that, and if you can't actually *ask* someone instead of just saying, it's being looked at by someone in the future please?.... Not that they will ever read this, but I guess venting it slightly is of assistance.
So, I took a look, and sadly for me, the report said that overall, all findings were normal, meaning whatever is causing my problem was not visible from the x-ray or ultrasound. ~sigh~
I got there early, my appointment was 11:30am, but I check at the reception at 11:18am and didn't have to wait long before a young lady came and got me for the x-ray. The two imaging services were for my left wrist, since I was still experiencing intermittent unknown caused pains, where I wasn't even sure how I was using my wrist to cause it, and with such a long time I was given a referral to have the imaging done.
The x-ray took about two minutes, my wrist was laid upon the plate pad, she aligned the cross-hair and closed down the shutter so only the minimal amount of ray space was exposed, took one, moved my arm and turned it slightly, took another, moved and rotated perpendicularly before taking the final shot, so that all three images were on the same one film.
Then I was taken through to the ultrasound room where an older gentleman gelled up my wrist and used a very small head scanner to run some scans of my wrist from the dorsal and plantar planes, and also along the radial aspect. He said it looked pretty normal.
Then... the wait. I was told that it would be about 40-45 minute wait, I could do that or come back. I figured by the time I went back to my office, I'd get about 15 minutes before I'd have to walk back again, so I might as well just wait. I read a magazine (the ABC publication of Delicious), and then started to watch the movie Mask (starring Cher, about the life of Roy L "rocky" Dennis [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_L._Dennis]). Then an hour and a half I checked again and was told it was still being looked at by the doctor. Then at the two hour mark again, before finally someone went in and got it at nearly two and a half hours. She said that it looked like it had been done, but was just sitting on the desk. -_-;
Honestly, I think that's quite pathetic for service. Had I gone away and come back an hour later, I still would have been stuck for over another hour waiting for it.... Don't tell people it'll be 40-45min if it takes more than that, and if you can't actually *ask* someone instead of just saying, it's being looked at by someone in the future please?.... Not that they will ever read this, but I guess venting it slightly is of assistance.
So, I took a look, and sadly for me, the report said that overall, all findings were normal, meaning whatever is causing my problem was not visible from the x-ray or ultrasound. ~sigh~
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