[noonereal]

Originally Posted by merrylander

Thank You, yes Florence worked in the underground levels of the T Building that the records say do not exist. Her gynecologist compounded the death sentence when after removing a 19cm x 17cm x 12cm 2200 gram collection of cysts from her and doing a radical hysterectomy he did not take the advice of two pathologists and perform further tests. So the cancer cells remained dormant until a trauma reactivated them. Then the hospitals were not much help. I would not send my worst enemy to Medstar Montgomery and would hesitate to send my cats to Howard County General. I should have taken her to Canada.

The detonators she tested were loaded with tritium and it was also kept in the T Building in its gaseous form. They allowed materials and staff to ride in the same elevator yet despite what happened to those Japanese fishermen on the Lucky Dragon (Forget the Japanese name) they still were very cavalier about the effects of radiation. Still waiting for a decision by the Dept of Labor as to her qualifying for remediation under EEOICP.. They admit that she never wore film badges or dosimeters in the four years she was there, but some young smartass at NIOSH has done a dose reconstruction, what I would call a SWAG.

Oddly enough someone submitted her name to a group called the Cold War Patriots who sent me a certificate stating that she is a Founding Member. Whhat really upsets me is that she and the young women she worked with gave their lives for this country but get no recognition. When I think back on it it was mostly young women who did this work, misogyny at work?

powerful post

much respect