It took me 45 minutes to get in all of the suits and putting all the dosimeters on me so that they knew how much radiation I got and the protective boots and everything.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My time inside there was very short compared to the amount of time it took to take on and take off this suit and to test me for how much radioactivity I have.
When I entered the field in July 1958 I believed what they told me about radiation risks. I spent much effort reducing the dose to patients in radiology.
Radiation is relentless: my protocol is five days a week, 33 sessions altogether.
And I really also wanted to have the full-body scans to learn if it was anywhere else - and it wasn't - before I told them. So I didn't tell them, until for a week, and then I told them.
They put me in a whole body suit, from my neck to my ankles. It was so bad, I couldn't straighten my legs.
It's the first time I've ever done anything like that. It took longer than I expected. I've gotten a lot of E-mail since I got back, saying they thought I did a good job and presented the case well.
It took about six years to get the Black Lung stuff. It didn't come just instantly. Sometimes, I see lobby groups, today, upset because they work the whole session and nothing happens.
I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago.
They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive.
I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.
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