As Day Sixty ends, today is a unique day because it is X-Ray day. For the first time since Jenny left Health Sciences Centre she is getting an x-ray again to see the progress of her bones repairing. However, this would be the first time she is getting an x-ray while awake and conscious which would end up causing more obstacles than I expected.

There is an x-ray machine at Riverview itself but the trek to get there is quite a distance. There is an entire underground tunnel complex that connects the three major buildings together (Riverview Health Center, Riverview Administration Building and the Neuromuscular and Electrodiagnostic Clinic). The x-ray machine is located at farthest point in the Neuromuscular and Electrodiagnostic Clinic at the other end of the entire area.

From Jenny’s room, walking the entire way with the numerous elevators it takes about 12 minutes to get to the X-ray location. Once we got there, due to a backup we had to wait in the cramped hallway for an additional half an hour. When we were invited in and the procedure began, this is when the difference between Jenny being conscious and unconscious played a noticeable role. They had to move Jenny’s right arm a lot of times to get it into position for the x-rays. With the ongoing condition of Jenny’s right arm, this caused her an immense amount of pain. She still cannot rotate her wrists palm up to palm down nor raise her right hand past her shoulders and she cannot even extend her right arm so the complex movements needed to get her arm in place for the x-rays was a painful ordeal to witness. In hindsight, I am curious if her being unconscious also meant that her arm was unlocked and could be moved freely because if that is true then that would mean her right arm condition is completely neurological instead of muscular. I do not know, but I will make a note and ask of it next time we are at Health Sciences Centre – hopefully they will remember her specific case.

After the x-rays, by random fortune I had brought some of Jenny’s favorite food from a local Chinese restaurant. I did not tell her I brought it until after the x-rays and she was very happy to this surprise because she at least had something she could enjoy after going through that difficult procedure.