took a trip out to bayside today for an upper gi. i was all freaked out by the distance between here and there, and my appointment was at 9 so i took car service. right now, the beloved 7 train is not up to speed - then you have to catch a bus once you get to flushing . . . i just couldn't hack that.
it was fun seeing that most of the signs along northern boulevard from flushing to bayside are in korean. some nice houses and side streets out there. and you get to cross the utopia parkway of myth, where joseph cornell lived with his mother. anyway, i digress. this radiological exam i had was the real trip. in the best sense - getting to be in the company of health professionals who are really cool, explain everything to you, and have a sense of humor is refreshing in the age of healthcare as business. i got to wear an ankle-length navy blue poly-cotton robe. i got to drink barium that was, as promised, better-tasting than my last gi 15 years ago.
they told me that the test could take an hour or 4 - no telling, since the barium has to travel throught the small intestine and it varies from person to person. they take xrays every 15-30 minutes of this process. as i suspected, the transit was pretty quick in me. i was out in 2 hours.
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