My first X-ray

 

I was so excited and worried at the same time. Many days before my mom was talking to me to be calm and try to avoid all the anxiety and stress invading me about all the proceeding that my mom and I were doing at that time. It was all bout the UES proceeding to be done in order to get the opportunity for doing the admission exam in the UES (Universidad Nacional de El Salvador) and one of the things to do was an x-ray of my lungs in the Faculty of Medicine.

 

Faculty of Medicine (UES)

I was really nervous when the day arrived and I remember I couldn´t sleep that night. I was shaking my body as a leaf when waiting my turn to go to that room. I had passed weeks thinking about the x-ray machine and the idea that beginners will be taking the x-ray exam.

 - “So, what could happen if the machine is not well controlled, maybe I could die” “Will it hurt a lot?”.

There were a lot of ridiculous ideas, questions and thoughts that I was thinking while waiting. I´ve never been in a hospital for being sick or for suffering any kind of illness. Even though, it was not in the hospital, it was new for me to do an x-ray. It was my first x-ray day and I didn´t know if that could be painful. My mom was next to me seeing me and trying to calm my anguish.

- “It is nothing to be afraid” “Come on, everything will be all right” she said to me.

Nevertheless, I was full of nervous.

The moment arrived.I was without my bra, full of nervous and wearing clothes that a person gave me to enter to the room where I had to go to the x-ray. That was the moment to enter to that room and my pulse was rather rapid than normal, I think a pulsometer couln´t had red my rapidly pulse rate. The rhythmic contractions moved quickly the blood through my body. While walking, I felt my steps go really slowly, but my heart was still running fast on my own.

When I pushed the door to enter, I saw many people there - “Could you stand here, please? Please, don´t move you!, they said to me. I was really scared, but I only saw a little flash, there.

X-ray machine

- That´s all, thanks!  They said to me.
Come on, I was worried for nothing. There were only seconds on that room. I spent more time being scared, nervous and really worried than the few seconds of taking that x-ray of my lungs.

X-ray of lungs