How Monday Went

[giza]

Today was still pretty rough on my feet, so I saw the doctor. I was literally able to walk over after making the phone call, and was the only patient there. The doctor took one look at my feet and said, "you did everything you could, go see a pawdiatrist". So off I went to get an X-Ray, and called the pawdiatrist's office earlier today. Waiting for them to call me back now.

I got a CD with the images on them, and discovered they were in some new format, known as DCM files. Basically, high resolution bitmaps with patient data encoded in them. I finally found a free command line utility called NConvert that would turn them into PNGs. Then I uploaded them to Flickr:

Later, on the way home, I got caught by a nasty rain storm and stranded at the train station for about 15 minutes while waiting for the sky to clear. I got these pictures:

Those X-Rays are now on my iPod Touch for when I visit the doctor. :-)

Finally, delphanaeous and orionvw stopped by for a bit. The original plan was to do dinner and then watch a movie. It sorta degenerated into us whipping out our laptops and inflicting YouTube videos on each other. Still, we had fun.

I think my mental state is starting to get back to normal, but I'm still having trouble sleeping, and have dreams I don't want when I do. Not sure what I can do about that. It'd be much nicer if I didn't have any dreams at all, really.

Comments

[orionvw.livejournal.com]

Humm, dreams huh? Why did you not mention? I do have some subliminal files on my harddrive for deep calming. Want me to bring up next time?

[ionotter.livejournal.com]

Holy $#!+, Doug, that's not a bone spur?! Someone SHOT YOU! With 00-buckshot!! OMGWTFBBQOWOWOWOWOW!!!

[giza.livejournal.com]

Oh, that thing on the bottom of my foot? It was a small metal BB in a sticker. The tech was like, "put this where it hurts".

I was like, "I have pain all along the outside of the foot, better give me 100", but was told no. :-P

[zeeth_kyrah]

Sounds like you have a pinched or damaged nerve.

[adelheid-p.livejournal.com]

As a child, I learned to control my dreams a bit. When I was in a dream I didn't like, I'd wake myself up or tell myself it was my dream and I can change it. I don't always "remember" to do it, though. I don't know if trying something like that would work for you.

[giza.livejournal.com]

I never felt like I could do that. My "knowledge" of dreams would usually come back to me when I woke up the next morning.

Freddy Krueger would be all over me. :-/

[simbab.livejournal.com]

If the DCM files are anything like most scientific image formats, they might have more than your usual 8 bpp.

[giza.livejournal.com]

The answer seems to be "it varies".

Though the original file sizes were about 10 Megs (and uncompressed) and at 2500 x 2048. So 2500 x 2048 == 5,120,000, or about 5 Megs. So a 10 Meg image should be 16 bits/pixel, assuming there is no compression.

For further info, I went to look at the standards (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Imaging_and_Communications_in_Medicine#Parts_of_the_DICOM_Standard) and well, they're huge. After 10 minutes I was unable to get a clear answer and had to return to work.