I sought online for a radiology center in NYC and from a list the
"Community Radiology NY" seemed to be eye-catching.
I booked an appointment for an abdominal sonogram
(since I had Splenomegaly while staying at the hospital due to severe
Anemia, I wanted to confirm if the
spleen was still expanding)
but a team member mentioned to me that a referral
from my physician was required. Therefore, when I
had a visit with my physician Dr.Robert Y. Lin,
he assented to my request for the abdominal
sonogram referral.
Community Radiology NY has very forbearing crew,
they understood that owing to unforeseen
circumstances, I had to reschedule a couple of
times my sonogram scheduled date.
The location is in sprightly Chinatown.
Inside the lobby, there is a pharmacy
and patients can take the capacious black stairs
towards the second floor radiology where the doors are see-through
transparent. Upon my arrival, I walked in and went to the
team to sign my name, one of the team gave me
a very abridged questionnaire to populate.
The waiting room is nifty. The patient can neither drink nor
eat anything for about seven hours or more before the exam.
Eventually,I was called by name by the same
staff person at the desk and he headed me to a
corridor into another waiting room
where I remained for close to twenty minutes
-the reason being that, there were more
patients earlier than I. Sequentially, a young nice
male technician guided me to the private sonogram/ultrasound
room where we discussed my medical history.
Before initiating the sonogram he told me to lift my
dress - in view of this, I asked if there were no robes
available -he said there were none and rendered me
two long paper towels to cover just my private parts as
he decently left the room.
Hereafter, he adjusted the towels and ascended my panties before descending it.
He suavely placed gel on my abdomen various times. He rolled the transducer all over my belly/abdominal,etc and stopped to capture
each image on the computer. He revealed to me how
my heartbeat when amplified is heard. I asked
him at what week the gender of a baby is identified (via the sonogram) and he told me that every once in a while, it is not identifiable if the
male baby situates indistinguishably his genitals or otherwise.
Conclusively, he wiped from my stomach
the adhesive gel. We expressed our farewells and
I questioned him when I will acquire my result -he
told me that my physician will obtain it for me.
Moreover, when I visited my physician Dr.Lin,
he handed me a facsimile of my ultrasound sonogram result
and favorably, it came out benign.
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