Too Many Cooks

My brother-in-law was able to get another radiologist's opinion who confirmed a tear in the ACL.  At this point, Meniscus tear is mostly confirmed but the ACL tear was in question.  This and some of my symptoms over the last couple of days somewhat confirm ACL tear!  My postings probably reflect my confusion in this matter.  They sway nicely in tune with the opinions I receive.  Human mind is so fleeting and my behavior probably is quite human!  What I am getting at here is the fact that we all justify our actions based on what we want to hear.  I have done it many times and I know of others who have done it.  For instance, I am sure there are situations when we said or did something which we knew at that time was wrong – however, we try to justify these actions by coming up with all kinds of arguments in their favor.  It is just a way of ‘convincing’ ourselves that our actions were not our fault but under the circumstances we were right – all this while our inner voice is shouting at us telling us otherwise.  Enough of this philosophical ‘non’sense. 

BTW, my brother-in-law also showed the MRI to an orthopaedic surgeon who agreed with the course of action.  So, thus far I have the following MRI readings for my ACL – the MRI performing center diagnose it as full tear, two radiologists say no tear, two radiologists say partial tear.  If anyone reading this blog wants to make additional diagnoses, I have prepared a video of one of the MRI Series – feel free to look at it. 

I was actually impressed with how easy it was to actually create a movie using the MRI images.  Remember the MRI images are not in a format readable by typical image editors.  I was only able to use a ‘viewer’ that came with the CD to look at these images.  This is what I did to extract a movie out of it.  BTW, this can actually be very useful if you want to use continuous screen captures into an avi file, which is what I did.

This is what I did – searched for free software and came across CamStudio which I downloaded and installed on my computer – quite a small footprint and a seamless install.  Then, you open the software application and click on the record button (you can set the screen size) and until you stop whatever is happening on the screen is captured.  So, I opened the MRI Viewer and scrolled down slowly one image at a time which was captured into the avi file.  Then opened this file in Windows Movie Maker and split the files into reasonable size clips and combined them into a mov file.  I thought it was pretty cool.  Speaking of cool, my children – son who will be a teenager in a few weeks and daughter who is eleven and a half – think I am old and weird as they think only young kids can do ‘cool’ stuff (blogging and making clips, etc.) and I tell them they have one cool dad!