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[Kalisurfer]

I don't want to be getting radiation. Scared.

Have I missed something posted somewhere about your health Panda Paws? Radiation treatment sounds serious, I hope with these paltry words that you are doing as well as you can be and that all the healing energy that we can muster up goes your way to chase any fears away!

Take Care and Heal!!!!

[PandaPaws]

Kali:

No, I am getting accidentally radiated at my job. I have been trying to get advice from others in my profession. Here is what I wrote to a mailing list:

"Two women who graduated hygiene school with me have been diagnosed with thyroid cancer. It has really made me wonder if all the xrays we take are safe. So I decided to do my own experiment by firmly taping a coin to an xray film and keeping it in my pocket for a few days. My boss thought it was interesting but nobody really expected to find anything on it.

We have digital xrays, the kind that are plates and you scan them in. Well, to my horror when I developed that film today I could see an image of that coin! Now the whole film had a speckled look about it but you could see where the coin was placed. I am guessing it had that appearance since radiation scatters. The doctor's wife said they would get me a real xray badge if I wanted. I think he and his wife were surprised that anything showed up on the film but I think he is still thinking there could be a flaw in my experiment somewhere. I only had an hour left at work when I developed it and while working on other patients I decided I really want a real xray badge. When I went to tell them I was told it was already in the works...so I think they are alarmed, too."

It is concerning to me for many reasons. I had a thyroid test result a few weeks ago and it wasn't good. They retested me and it was fine. Seems odd. And I have fertility problems and I am having another embryo transfer June 10th...so I am freaked out by the results of my rudimentary test. The significance of the thyroid cancer is that it is linked to radiation. I saw a show about Chernobyl's aftermath and many people in the affected area have thyroid cancer. I spoke to one of my old professors and she is the one who told me about one girl from my class and I told her about the other. She said a lot of people she knows are getting this type of cancer. I follow all the correct precautions.....so I guess I have to wait and find out what happens with the radiology badge. That is a better test than the one I made up and if I am receiving any it will also tell how much.

[Apres Laulyam]

Panda Paws, I'm sorry for your alarm, and I hope you can get it sorted, but, what is this 'badge'? I thought, in full-body x-ray technicians, they go in a little room, away, for the reason that they do not want to be exposed to x-ray continually for their work. Also, when I get a teeth x-ray, I thought I remembered that they lay a big heavy 'blanket' on the patient, so that they do not get 'stray' x-rays. What is this 'badge'; is it some kind of protectant for you, the technician?

I'm sorry for it that you have to have this fear. I'm glad that you're taking things into your own hands, to explore and understand it. Certainly your crew there should have been making things so that you are not exposed like this, I would have thought. (I had many many x-rays as a child, for my back, so that now I don't always go for mammogram and such because I resent and dislike that I have had my quota.) Please let us know what you discover. Like Kali, I want to wrap you in a protective affection. Thank you for telling us your 'In The Moment'; you don't have to go through this worrisome time alone.

fond regards,
apres

[PandaPaws]

The badge is a little clip on thing you wear for a month. Then you send it away and you get the results back. It will tell you if you are getting any radiation and how much. My boss seems alarmed and I know he doesn't want any of us to be getting radiation so if there is something wrong he will fix it I am sure. But I won't be too happy that I have probably been getting radiation for over a year. Maybe there is a flaw in my test but I can't think of any.

[ePiTau]

What does the doorman say?

Feed your heeeeeaaaaaaaaddddddddddddd!

The Dormouse, not a doorman, Homer, a mouse it was!
Grace Slick's song White Rabbit appeared on Jefferson Airplane's 1967 album Surrealistic Pillow.

Something from Wikipedia about this song:

Slick has stated that White Rabbit was a response towards parents who asked why their children were taking drugs. According to her, books that parents would read to their children, such as Alice in Wonderland, encouraged them to experiment with substances since surreal and colorful imagery was often used.

The last lines of the song are "Remember what the Dormouse said. Feed your head. Feed your head." and do not explicitly quote the Dormouse as is often assumed. Remembering what the Dormouse said probably refers to "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", Chapter XI 'Who Stole the Tarts' wherein a very nervous Mad Hatter is called to testify:

"'But what did the Dormouse say?' one of the jury asked."
"'That I can't remember,' said the Hatter.

"Feed your head" likely refers to the purported mind-expanding effects resulting from the ingestion of hallucinogenic substances.

[ePiTau]

What does the doorman say?

Feed your heeeeeaaaaaaaaddddddddddddd!

Have a glass of milk and a lie down, mate.

"Potent brains are not strengthened through milk but through alkaloids."
(Gottfried Benn, early 1940's).

[Homer]

The Dormouse, not a doorman, Homer, a mouse it was!

Quite so. I remembered a couple of minutes after I posted and I knew there was someone who would also remember.

Doormouse?

[ePiTau]

The Dormouse, not a doorman, Homer, a mouse it was!

Quite so. I remembered a couple of minutes after I posted and I knew there was someone who would also remember.

Doormouse?

Cute pic!
I found so many other sweet ones as well. These mice seem to be really tiny. A large bramble being basically as big as their heads.
I was also puzzled by the spelling. But it's Dormouse. Apparently nothing to do with doors, but thought to be derived from French/Latin
dormir/e "to sleep", possibly because they spend long periods in hibernation.

From Alice in Wonderland:
A Mad Tea-Party


There was a table set out under a tree in front of the house, and the March Hare and the Hatter were having tea at it:
a Dormouse was sitting between them, fast asleep, and the other two were using it as a cushion, resting their elbows on it,
and talking over its head. `Very uncomfortable for the Dormouse,' thought Alice; `only, as it's asleep, I suppose it doesn't mind.'

[Apres Laulyam]

The badge is a little clip on thing you wear for a month. Then you send it away and you get the results back. It will tell you if you are getting any radiation and how much. My boss seems alarmed and I know he doesn't want any of us to be getting radiation so if there is something wrong he will fix it I am sure. But I won't be too happy that I have probably been getting radiation for over a year. Maybe there is a flaw in my test but I can't think of any.

Ah, thanks for explaining. I thought your experiment smart. Sounds like your team are good folk; the badge should be standard issue from now on.

[Brainiac]

I'm deeply annoyed with the actions of the Daily Telegraph. Their behaviour is immature, irresponsible, and self-serving.

(Regarding the ongoing scandal over MPs expenses.)

[Paganini Teenie ...]

I'm deeply annoyed with the actions of the Daily Telegraph. Their behaviour is immature, irresponsible, and self-serving.

(Regarding the ongoing scandal over MPs expenses.)

Remind you of anyone ...?

[Brainiac]

Remind you of anyone ...?

Not really, no. It's been a while since the media went into a feeding frenzy like this.

[Dhyana]

I am pissed. I just received the news that I haven't gotten a place at the one-year study course in finance and economy that will be starting in August. I was hoping to get out of my job and try something else interesting.

It has been an exhausting day at work, rushed and full of messes.

[Kalisurfer]

I am pissed. I just received the news that I haven't gotten a place at the one-year study course in finance and economy that will be starting in August. I was hoping to get out of my job and try something else interesting.

It has been an exhausting day at work, rushed and full of messes.

Sorry to hear about you not getting into the one year finance course Dhyana! Is there another way of doing this, like taking night courses at a university that would lead to some kind of accreditation that could lead to an entry level job in the field you feel attracted too? The Swedish system of employment and education may be much different than what exists here, so I'm unsure if such an approach is possible where you live. Every roadblock in the way of achieving what our life choices are can be temporary and could still lead to other avenues that will take you to the same destination, hope alternative possibilities exist for you.

[Brainiac]

I hear you, Dhyana. I am also trying to find a new job that'll suit my new direction, so that I can leave my current place. With the economic troubles it is hard.

[0Seeking Truth0]

PP, I'm only just now discovering this thread. I had no idea about the radiation. I hope you're OK.

[metamorphosis]

prepping for my colonoscopy tomorrow

so people will have to use another term tonight and in the morning, something other than "hey you meta, you are full of sh!t"

[Gerard]

prepping for my colonoscopy tomorrow

so people will have to use another term tonight and in the morning, something other than "hey you meta, you are full of sh!t"

Hey Meta, you're not full of shit, man!



I wish you the best with the tests.

[Dhyana]

prepping for my colonoscopy tomorrow

so people will have to use another term tonight and in the morning, something other than "hey you meta, you are full of sh!t"

To cheer yourself up, try pondering what life form the colonoscopy specialists will be born as in his/her next life...

[metamorphosis]

prepping for my colonoscopy tomorrow

so people will have to use another term tonight and in the morning, something other than "hey you meta, you are full of sh!t"

To cheer yourself up, try pondering what life form the colonoscopy specialists will be born as in his/her next life...