My best ideas always come to me while I’m at work istg but like:
Imagine poor Rocky having to sit outside of Simon’s lead-lined room, watching through the windows while Grace takes care of his fevers.
Grace has decided that Rocky isn’t allowed to help Simon, lest he still have enough radiation to damage rocky. If he’s to hear Simon wake in the middle of the night, lashing from nightmares, he can’t do anything but hope Grace will wake up and help. (And Grace does, he loves that dirty goblin of a man)
Rocky and Simon have a very hostile relationship until Si is healed, just because of this. Simon hates being watched, and that’s all Rocky can do for him.
☢️👁️A sickening feeling in the stomach and eyes👁️☢️
I like briefly mentioned this before but yeah I brought up the fact that bananas are slightly radioactive, drew Mighty Ray’s eyes glowing like uranium cutlery and left it as that.
But then I started thinking. . .
So as a head canon I like to think that Mighty Ray is just slightly radioactive thanks to the bananas he eats on the daily (since bananas do contain potassium) and because of his eyes that possibly emit said radiation as well. It’s not enough to do harm unless he eats an excessive amount as seen in the show which could’ve been potentially some form of radiation poisoning/sickness which is kinda what inspired this piece in the first place.
The piece was also inspired by a couple of phobias Mighty Ray could also potentially have such as trypophobia (fear of little holes) and ommetaphobia (fear of eyes). While not having these fears in the traditional sense, I can definitely see him be unnerved at the idea of not remembering his old eye colour or how eyes should look and feel somewhat grossing him out, etc.
Overall this art piece is very based on head canons and slight speculations, I could be wrong or missing something but enjoy! ^ ^
The wolves have altered immune systems, similar to cancer patients undergoing radiation treatment.
Obviously it would have been better if the Chernobyl disaster had never happened. But to see how wolves and other wildlife have adapted to the nuclear contamination and ambient radiation there gives a glimmer of hope that, even if the worst were to happen worldwide, we might still see at least some of the life we know today continue onward. Here's hoping that scientists, both in Ukraine and otherwise, will continue to be able to safely study Chernobyl and its effects.
This is the second in a series of posts meant to explore both real-life cases of radiation sickness and the sci-fi concept of ghoulification in some depth. Graphic descriptions of the physical deterioration of the body are included for informative purposes; reader discretion is advised.
For this second case study, I examine the effects on the human body of exposure to moderate levels of radiation over a long period of time, with a focus on the real case of the Radium Girls, in particular Mollie Maggia.
Marie and Pierre Curie discovered radium in 1898, launching the Radium Craze. Radium was believed to have numerous health benefits and restorative properties and was used to treat arthritis, hypertension, schizophrenia, and even stomach cancer. It was also used in tonic water, toothpaste, and cosmetics, among many other products.
After William J. Hammer created a glowing green paint made from radium and zinc sulfide, radioluminescent paint became popular in use on watches and clock dials. Three factories that used radioluminescent paint on watches and clock dials saw incidents of severe radium poisoning in workers, in Orange, New Jersey, Ottawa, Illinois, and Waterbury, Connecticut.
Dial painters working for the U.S. Radium Corporation, most of whom were between ages 14 and 20, were assured they were safe and were not given appropriate personal protective equipment while exposed to the radium dust they used to mix the paint for the dials. Managers encouraged them to use their lips to create a fine point on their paintbrushes, necessary in the precision work they did, which caused them to ingest small amounts of radium during their shifts. In addition, the radium dust coated their hair and dresses, and some women, believing the radium to be harmless, even deliberately painted their teeth and nails to make them glow. Dial painters ingested about 76 microcuries of radium per year.
In addition to consuming radium in the paint, the dial painters were exposed to the radon gas that resulted from the decaying radium, increasing their exposure to around 13000% more than the maximum annual dose. For comparison, standing next to the Chernobyl meltdown would result in about 30 rem of radiation exposure. 10 rem is the lowest annual dose linked to an increased risk of developing cancer. 200 rem is enough to cause severe radiation sickness and death, and between 300-400 rem is regarded as a lethal dose.
When ingested along with food or water, roughly 80% of radium is excreted, but the remaining 20% travels throughout the body where it is deposited in the bones, emitting alpha particles as it decays and irradiating the cells on the surface of the bones. New bone growth results in radium being deposited deep into the bone where it remains.
The typical period of exposure among the dial painters was two years. Some developed mouth sores after only a month of working at the factories, but for others, symptoms took longer to appear. First, the women would have felt fatigued and anemic as their damaged bones could no longer replace their red blood cells.
Because they were primarily ingesting the radium, their mouths were often the most affected. By October of 1921, Mollie Maggia—who'd already had to have a tooth removed—returned to the dentist's chair to have even more of her teeth extracted. The radiation damage to her bones inhibited blood cell production, which in turn prevented the wounds from healing. The ulcers became necrotic and constantly oozed blood and pus.
Throughout that November, Mollie's condition grew steadily worse, and in addition to the pain in her teeth and jaw, her hips and feet became sore.
As the painters' radiation sickness progressed, their joints would become stiff and severe pain in their limbs limited their mobility. The radium ate through their bones, leaving them perforated in a honeycomb pattern and prone to spontaneous fractures. The women's spines and long bones fractured and shortened.
Some of the women’s skin became so thin that even a fingernail scratch could cause it to split open.
Tumors the size of grapefruits or footballs developed on their bodies, and they suffered from blood disorders, menstruation issues, and sterility.
By January of 1922, Mollie was in constant, unbearable agony. Her teeth were rotting in her mouth and falling out before they could be extracted. In May, Mollie’s dentist was horrified when her jaw crumbled at a gentle touch. He proceeded to remove her jaw, not by an operation, but simply by pulling the disintegrating pieces out by hand. That summer, Mollie’s throat became painfully sore, and she experienced spontaneous bleeding from the jaw. By September, the radiation had eaten through the tissue of her jugular vein to the point of hemorrhage. Mollie's mouth and throat flooded with blood, and she died.
Mollie Maggia was the first from the U.S. Radium Corporation to die, just short of her 25th birthday, in 1922. 12 more women died the following year and another 50 fell severely ill.
dosage effects on humans and when too much is too much just in case yall need it, my space professor gave these to us so I thought some writers could use it.
he also in depth told us that these effects were gathered after the disasters of both hiroshima and nagasaki. doctors realized that there was little to nothing they could do to help people that were dying and decided to record their observations to hopefully help future generations.
