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How does it feel to be under an X-Ray? Once, I was asked to go through it… It was a simple pre-anesthesia checkup…. an X-Ray of the chest… but an X-Ray for an operation of something else.
In a dark room, I patiently waited for my turn… with anxiety if these X-Rays would harm me or not… or there would be any pain..? Soon my turn came and I was asked to stand behind a screen. The attendant there switched on some button for a few seconds and it was done. No pain. I don’t know where these rays hit and what damage they did but there was no pain, no sensation at all. Then I was out and I was told to wait and come back later for the report. I got that report after almost four hours. But then the report was just a report, which I did not understand. It was supposed to be shown to the doctor who would then give his expert advise. But to see the doctor I had to come back some other day. The anxiety was more. What was there in the X-Ray? What would the doctor have to say? Hope everything is OK… Hope everything comes out to be fine. But between that X-Ray and the doctor were hours, which had to become days. But each and every minute and second was becoming like months.
Then I went again through an X-Ray when I fractured my hand. So the X-Ray was taken from different angles. I was asked to keep my hand like this… like that… and like that… and like that.
What if you have to go through another kind of an X-Ray when people start judging you and it is a matter of your life? Their judgments may not be as accurate… it depends from what angle they took the X-Ray. They might give a clean chit if the X-Ray was taken from the right angle and they might doom your life if they mix up the X-Rays.
But then again between the X-Ray and the judgment and the prescription and the clean chit are seconds, which turn into minutes, which turn into hours, which turn into months… and in between are patience… anxiety… expert comments….
Do you realise that X-Ray is not only a matter of seconds when the attendant switched on the machine for a few seconds. It is a process from the doctor suggesting an X-Ray to the machine… to the report… then the doctor does an X-Ray of the X-Ray. Then he suggests something.
X-Ray is not over in moments.
Well go through an X-Ray to experience this all yourself. I’m going through one. Not the medical one. Another kind of. But trust me… on this X-Ray depends my life.
Well best of luck man… hope the doctor clears it.