Winding down the semester

Five weeks left of the semester! I hope that everyone is doing well!

This week at the facility where I'm doing my MRI clinicals, we had a young man whose knee was so enlarged that I had to position it in the knee coil by lining up with the opposing knee. He had been playing basketball and he came down from a jump when he heard and felt a pop in his knee. He has had a history of knee dislocation in the past.
We knew he would definitely have a fluid-filled knee and with it being so distended we were not surprised to see blood in the axial views. We expanded the FOV and slices to obtain as much of the fluid as possible. I think I was mostly impressed by how well the patient remained still throughout the entire procedure with cushions packed around his knee.

I am down to less than 13 hour of completing my clinical observation hours and 1 competency test. It has been quite a journey and I have learned so much. I hope to carry this knowledge onto a future position somewhere as a MRI technologist.