Posted on 09/28/2012 6:49:57 PM PDT by Solomon8522
Never going to be a fashion statement.
There was never any radiation leak...
Hiya, not much new. The fire people have left town. The fire is still burning but not moving much. Tuesday will be the last day of the official fire camp, then locals will take over.
I unpacked most of my things out of my truck.
Hope you all are well.
Thank you all for your kindness during my time of freaking out!!!
All is well, and please (a request) read both mailings. Hugs!
((HUGS)) I did check your mail....;)
Non-radioactive iodine, given as a dietary supplement, is one of the more effective anti-radiation treatments available.
The human body absorbs iodine when it can, and sends it straight to the thyroid gland for processing.
If that iodine happens to be radioactive, then there's a seed for potential cancers later.
Simply taking extra iodine first prevents the radioactive iodine from being absorbed. The body just says, "No thanks, I'm full."
Such preventive doses, I believe, were administered to local residents after the Three-Mile Island minor radiation release.
Fallout from the A-Bomb tests, not a “leak.” The government was, in those days, not telling anyone how dangerous radiation was, even to those in the paths of the prevailing winds.
Several actors, including John Wayne, died from cancer. They were “downwinders” during the filming of “The Conqueror,” filmed in southern Utah. Those of us in Central Utah got the fallout, as well. Hence, the iodine. The government knew the dangers, but hoped the iodine would help those of us who were still in elementary school.
As it happens, during those years, southern Utah saw an abnormal spurt in the births of children with birth defects, inluding Down Syndrome. Although we were farther north, I believe to this day that the radiation I endured was/is the cause of problems with my immune system. While not BEING the cause of CFIDS, I’m sure it was a contributor.
The tests were conducted above ground for a good many years, and since I live not too far from the Test Site, I’m often the recipient of tales. I’ve also lived in St. George, and have seen first-hand the effects of the radiation on residents.
This is one time, Nully, when chocolate just won’t make it go away! ;o]
Thanks, Bob!
What? Are you going to believe your own eyes and experience, or the Government?
I’m glad to hear things are getting back to normal for you! *hug*
You are too precious to let go of too soon! ;o]
What? Even though I was young (maybe seven when we began the iodine) I recall thinking what a stupid thing is was to be given iodine “just because.” Our parents had no choice. They had to allow it.
To this day, I don’t know the reason given to our parents, but I do know we were called out of class and one by one, were given two iodine tablets and offered a paper cup of water to get them down.
Back then, we were also given no choice in innoculations: we were called out of class, lined up, and given a shot until every kid in the school had been vaccinated. Only, my smallpox vaccination didn’t “take.”
It was only years later, when my son was small, that I had another and it put me in bed. No kidding. When I told the doctor about it, he said, “If there is ever a smallpox epidemic, you better plan on leaving town. If you get it, it will kill you.”
My life in a nutshell...if it doesn’t make you stronger, it kills ya! LOL!
They did finally admit to “venting” from some underground tests.
The reporters were left with the impression that it was like a puff of steam one would get from taking the lid off a pot of beans.
It was more like Old Faithful, only for hours or days on end.
Copy and paste in your browser, since it’s not a “hot” link. It should take you right to the blog. Let me know if you can’t get there from here! :o])
I don’t know if my small pox vaccination “took”. I have no scar, but my mother made such a big hairy deal about how awful it would be if I scratched it and how I would be scarred for life and how horribly disfigured I’d be forever-after.
It itched like fury, but I was too terrified to touch it.
Thanks mom. No scars on the outside, see?
This was LO-O-O-NG before underground tests. They hadn’t even considered “underground tests” because Nevada was so sparsly populated. They really didn’t ponder what the wind would do until the early 50’s. By then a lot of people were already irreversibly damaged.
I was born in 1944 in northern NV, but we moved to Alaska when I was six weeks old. We returned to the States (AK was still a territory, then) in 1949, and I believe the above-ground testing was going strong at the time.
The rest is my history.
My first smallpox vaccine produced nothing on my arm. While kids all around me were suffering with these hugh scabs, my upper left arm was pristine. I was 20 when I had the second one, and it left a small but jagged scar, and produced fever and other bodily malfunctions for three days, that I couldn’t deal with. My son was about six months old at the time, and I couldn’t lift him because my left arm was totally useless.
I wuz SIC!
Thanks. What tripped me up is that I thought I had to sign in and the domain or whatever you call it is gmail so I figured I had to register or something and so I thought I’d ask you if there was a simpler way to gain access. What’s wrong with run-on sentences anyway? (Channeling Andy Rooney here—or not)
Did you get to the blog? Do I have run-on sentences, I hope not. ;o]
Looks like me when I had the mumps. My moustache was nicer, though.
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