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| x-raying metal under my skin
Janet Kuypers 1/20/17 Went to a back doctor where chiropractors twisted my back, heard strings of cracks along my spine at every appointment — and at one point they took an x-ray of my chest and back, checking for disc injuries and inspecting the curve of my spine. Went into the office, they bought me into a room, turned a light box on at the wall, placed my x-ray in the light and asked, “What is this?”, and they pointed at what almost looked like an angular spider missing a few legs in one of my veins. I started for a moment. Then I think my eyes turned into saucers when I realized what this foreign object was in my body. “Oh, that’s a Vena Cava filter,” I said to them. “It was placed in me when I was in a coma and they didn’t know when I’d wake up.” They looked at me for a second, ‘til I said, “I’ve always wondered what that looked like.” And although it’s metal in my vein that would vibrate, tear through the veins to my heart and instantly kill me if I ever had an MRI scan, although this metal was placed in my vein without my consent when I was in a coma, despite this, I wanted this x-ray so I could feel some sort of connection to this invader. I know, I know, it’s only there to stop blood clots from traveling to my heart or lungs or brain that would kill me, I know it’s only there to help, but this foreign object has taunted me for too many years now, planting seeds of distrust in the back of my mind. This microscopic monster was placed in my vein, driving this love/hate relationship I now have to this non-human object embedded deep inside me. I know it’s there. At times I think I can feel it. I think this metal mini spider is also scratching at my soul, to remind me that something foreign has invaded me, I can’t claw it away, and while I hate it and I need it, it always reminds me that there is something deep inside me that will invade me like this forever. |
