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mitch96

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10. " if that could explain some of my memory issues through adulthood."

Tue Mar 10, 2020, 01:37 PM

Mar 2020

Nah.... that's just part of growing up
Re reading this post I totally forgot about my Mom's leg. She whacked her leg on a low refrigerator door at work and it festered into a ulcer. She told me that she had gotten radiation therapy for the wound...... ?WTF?? Radiation for a skin ulcer????
Then she tells me they gave her a "Erythema dose" Erythema is reddening of the skin. So they did not know how much to give so they just zapped her till the skin turned red and stopped...... "Yeah bubba that's good enough"
Lots of bad things happen getting to good treatments...
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