Gray Matters by Stuart Carlson and Jerry Resler for July 11, 2020

But not so much for the people who have to work in the shoe store.

When he falls into the well, his feet will glow in the dark.

I remember that from when I was a kid. “No, no, it won’t affect your son at all!” they told my mother. “But if his feet start to feel warm, he needs to take them out.”

I’m actually surprised that those machines haven’t been the subject of one of those “If you used such and such, and this and that happened, you can be compensated” commercials…. yet! Of course, the next logical one would be “if you were born, you can sue the whole freaking world”

Yep, just one more of those things that “seemed like a good idea at the time”. At least now when I have to drag myself out of bed in the middle of the night, I don’t need to turn on a light or use a torch… (!) Would it be possible to mount a class action against someone for this particular piece of nuclear idiocy? Still… at least our shoes fitted.

Has anyone developed an illness that can be traced back to those machines … such as cancer? Weren’t they called fluoroscopes? I remember using one once (or twice) at Eaton’s in our city.

Been there, did that twice a year in grade school. No problems at age 74.

My mother was fluoroscoped when she was three months pregnant. My vision is by far the worst of the family. I have read where women x-rayed in the first trimester often have babies born blind. My Mom also took thalidomide.

Kind of like the way some people blindly accept every vaccine coming down the pike. There is big, big money in vaccines; so I always try to dig through the research that is not done by the company for the company making them. Drug companies often set up shill “research” facilities that cherry pick only data that shows their drug or vaccine in a favorable light.

See book: Pharma: Greed, Lies, and the Poisoning of America by Posner.

And I remember in chemistry class, when we (cautiously) played with mercury.

Never saw one of those machines in Sacramento, CA when I was a kid. My foot was always placed in a metal foot size/width measure that was placed on the floor.

I remember that Buster Brown X-ray machine. Barely.

Fleet Feet still uses a version of this and will email you your x-ray.

When my brother discovered that his sperm count was almost negligible and he and his wife had to adopt, he blamed my mother for using the machine at the shoe store! I thought it was magical: I had 3 children when I married, so he was mistaken !