Monday, December 6, 2010

Can we trust the TSA?


Please check it out please. And comment.

Honestly, this scares me as a patient with CLL. The dose may be low, but it concentrated in the skin, and those of us with CLL already have a much higher incidence of skin cancer.

You see the fact that the radiation doesn't penetrate as deep is good for the internal organs, but its effects on the skin and underlying fat are yet to be determined.

Do we trust the government who calmed our worries about Agent Orange or told us not to worry and then prevented us from suing when they allowed toxic doses of mercury in our infants vaccines or who lined up soldiers to witness radioactive blasts at a "safe distance"?

Or do we trust the scientists?

Now I admit not all physicians line up with the UCSF doctors who signed the letter, but at best, it says that it is an open question.

We are all the guinea pigs. And those of us with suppressed immune systems may be more like the canaries in a coal mine.

Seems I am going to need to get used to being groped when I travel. Adds new considerations to the question -boxers or jockeys?

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