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| STUDY PREPARATION | ||||||||||||||
| They stick 89 little stickers in a pattern on your front and back. The stickers reminded me of that candy you used to get on a strip of paper...little dots. There are 6 cameras (3 front, 3 back) that are hooked to a computer and they're taking pictures of these dots during all the phases of this test. You do each section of the test 3 times. I guess I was there for about 2 1/2 hours total. Don't get paid a red cent for it...no food, no mileage...just a nice "Thank you". I'll go through this again after rehab, before LVRS, after LVRS, and then 6 mos. after LVRS. That's not half bad. Much better than going somewhere every month. Oh, and I even have a picture of me all "dotted" up! You can't see my face but you CAN see my fat belly and all the dots. They glow, LOL! |
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| That "line" you see along my right arm is tape to hide the O2 tubing because it would cause reflections, too, that the cameras would incorrectly try to pick up. As you can see, I'm wearing a sports bra (yeah, like I'm really into sports!) and they had to tape the straps and the center to make them narrower so the dots would fit. | ||||||||||||||
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| The Beginning of the Study | Let's see the back! | |||||||||||||