Hehehehe...This Woman Getting Embarrassed..Go To The Zoo Big Ass..

hey! i am not little by no means...but if the hospital told me to go to the zoo to get a MRI...Even i would have to chuckle a little bit on the way..

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,479782,00.html
When a 5-foot, 275-pound woman found out she had a tumor on her spine, she was told by her local hospital to go the zoo to have a MRI because a regular MRI machine could not hold her weight, MyFOXKC.com reported.
Carolyn Ragan told the television station she discovered the tumor two years ago and, after the hospital told her she could not use their MRI machine, a medical assistant said he would help her find a solution.


“So he suggested the Kansas City Zoo,” Ragan said. “I thought, I know I’m big, but I’m not as big as an elephant. And my husband got mad.”
The University of Kansas Hospital would not comment on Ragan’s claim, but said its MRI department does not know of any animal MRI in the Kansas City area that would scan a human.


Ragan’s problem was two-fold: She was too heavy for the table and too wide to slide through the opening.


Medical Imaging in Kansas City North, which has both closed and open MRI machines can typically hold up to 440 pounds, but sometimes a person who weighs less can still be out of luck, according to an MRI technician.
“It depends on how they are built a lot of times and what part of their body we’re scanning,” said technician Sarah Abbott of Medical Imaging. “(The machine) can only be so open before the magnetic field dissipates into the room.”

Clear case of weight distrubution here.. 5 ft 275 is like a bowling ball damn... No way the opening is big enough.

It is sad, but TTP's wife needs to get medical care somewhere.

Speaking of tumors, did you guys hear about the foot that grew inside a baby's brain?!


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By Mike Celizic
TODAYShow.com contributor
updated 10:17 a.m. ET, Tues., Jan. 13, 2009
A vertical scar on his right temple, above the ear and just where his hairline ends, is the only sign that 3-month-old Sam Esquibel is more than the perfect baby he appears to be. He’s also a medical marvel.

“He is a miracle,” his mother, Tiffnie Esquibel, told TODAY’s Matt Lauer Tuesday in New York as little Sam fussed on her lap. “I just love him so much.”

Sam, dressed in a lumberjack shirt, made his first national appearance on TODAY after making headlines and amazing doctors three days after his Oct. 1 birth. He has become known as the baby born with a foot in his brain, and even three months after the tumor containing the tiny foot and other partially formed body parts was removed during a delicate and successful surgery, doctors are still debating exactly what it was inside baby Sam’s head.

Trouble signs
For their part, the Esquibels are just happy to have a healthy and happy baby. The Colorado couple had been trying for most of their 13-year marriage to have a child, and had finally resigned themselves to being childless when Tiffnie became pregnant with Sam.