It's hard to tell what exactly is going on because I am getting info literally via the telephone game (one sister talks to doctor, sister calls other sister who calls me), but my dad may need a pacemaker. That procedure will be done where I live...a 400 mile trip in an ambulance for my dad. They are conferring with a cardiologist here who will make the call. I ma trying not to be stressed, but I am. I am worried about my dad, but I am also worried about my mom and how she is processing all this. ETA: I am also kind of sick and hopped on cold meds, and it's hard to tell where the sick ends and the stress begins. Blah.
Thanks for all the kind wishes. It's really appreciated.
Oh, KCD. Dude, you tell your kids FIRST.
All kinds of ~ma, Sue, and health vibes to your dad.
I would now like a nacho fountain, though.
Me too, though I still the BBQ sauce fountain we had here when I first started was better.
my dad may need a pacemaker
A pacemaker could be miraculous for your dad. I know cardiac procedures are terrifiying, but having seen Hubby through so many I'm in danger of being blase about them. You may not recognize the peppy guy your dad turns into.
Oh, Sue. That's got to be scary and stressful!
Do they do anything different with their plant design? Or is it just standard biz as usual in their plants and protocols?
My brother who lives in Holland tells me there is a widespread feeling in his neck of the woods that France deliberately located their plants at the borders of their country so if there was a problem prevailing winds would carry radiation away from France (and to other countries but, hey, not France's problem.)
There is too much porn on my tumblr dashboard. How did it get that way?
Right now all my thoughts are about drawing. I need focus.
Here's a map, Scrappy. [link] It doesn't seem to support that theory. Since the plants have to be on a body of water and rivers are so often form borders, it might seem to skew that way, but you can't have plants on opposite sides of the country and not have winds blow across the country from one or the other.
Ginger, you would be horrified to learn that my local listserv is freaking out because they just learned that Walter Reed had a (medical) nuclear reactor on site (decommissioned in 1972), and you know we cannot trust the gov't to tell us the truth about these things, and no one is thinking of the children.
It hasn't reached vaccine levels of conspiracy theory. Yet.
What's really laughable about that, Scrappy, is that almost all of the major radiation exposure incidents have been on the nuclear medicine side. Not only have there been the incidents you've read about in which people got many times the radiation they were supposed to, but medical facilities tend to be sloppy with their nuclear material, at least by nuclear power standards. One of the worst exposure incidents happened when a radioactive source from an X-ray machine ended up in scrap metal, which then became radioactive table legs and other steel items.
