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Eric Gibson

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When I was about 9 years old (around 1944) the girl sitting next to me in school showed me a mark on the back of her hand and said it was ringworm. When I told my mom she had a fit, saying it was highly contagious, sure enough a couple of days later I had one on the side of my head just above the hair line in the temple area.

I was sent to the school clinic where they sat me in front of an xray machine and zapped me. It cured the ringworm but all my hair fell out and took months to grow back, very embarrassing for an nine year old.

This year I had an itchy spot in the same area and the doc said it was a BCC (basal cell carcinoma), a type of skin cancer which has had to be removed in hospital. I'm told it's a complete cure.

The surgeon says it is a direct result of that childhood xray treatment. Apparently there are lots of sufferers in our age group who were treated in this way and are now getting both skin cancers and laryngeal cancers caused by xray overdoses.

Looks like we were unfortunate guinea pigs for the medical profession. E.
 
sorry to hear that Eric...how awful :(
I guess they have other cures for ringworm these days.
I think that is right, that basal cell carcinoma is easily and completely cured these days, as a friend had one removed from her nose a few years ago...
all the best :)
 
Heavens - I didn't know they used to do that for ringworm!  I can remember having some sort of cream to treat the infection when I got one in primary school.  My husband has had several BCCs removed from his scalp - but using a cream that burns them off over a number of weeks.  The specialist told him that it's the same cream that is used to get rid of genital warts!! :o  He did have one larger growth (BCC that is) cut out in the doctor's surgery. :)
 
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THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR POSTING. GUMPTION I GUESS OR SUCH. I HAVE PASSED ON YOUR EXPERIENCE RECORDING BECAUSE WE NEED MORE DEPTH AND BREADTH OF STUDY BECAUSE OF THE WIDE USE OF THAT TECHNOLOGY.

ARE YOU SENSITIVE TO ULTRA VIOLET SPECTRUM IN DAYLIGHT?
 
Guinea pigs we are all, tried to tell my nurse that to take the dose of my diabetic made me feel bad just said keep taking them.
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hmld said:
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THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR POSTING. GUMPTION I GUESS OR SUCH. I HAVE PASSED ON YOUR EXPERIENCE RECORDING BECAUSE WE NEED MORE DEPTH AND BREADTH OF STUDY BECAUSE OF THE WIDE USE OF THAT TECHNOLOGY.

ARE YOU SENSITIVE TO ULTRA VIOLET SPECTRUM IN DAYLIGHT?

If this question was for me hmld, no I've had no other ill effects that I know of, although looking into the treatment further I note that there are cases of larynx cancer attributed to it. E.
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re xray

been reading the post and treads.on clinics.who the hell ran them?they
were torcher houses.most so called nurses,that if they ever was.should be held responsible for the damage done to us kids.teachers would send us to the torcher houses with a note,ie saying j blogs needs a ear cleaning,or whatever.and they done it.they took too much on them selves.were they
proper hospitals?or just self appointed.
I was temp blinded by that light,i woke up in the night screeming,with pain
the,eye hospital said i had a thing called ark eye what welders get.my right eye has never recoverd prop.when i go out in the sun.i cant see out it.:cool:
 
Dead right about the clinics being torture houses, being a swimmer I frequently had verooka's on my feet. Oh God how I dreaded it I had to go to the foot clinic in town, think it was Gt charles st, whereby I went through the process of having it scraped out, week after week, no pain killers in those days!:cry:
I only have to see a scalpel nowadays and it gives me the horrors!
 
re xray

Jude.thank goodness there gone.they would be prosecuted now days.for some tactics used.:cry:
 
Jude - I had 14 removed and could hardly walk for weeks. Being a serious skater it was very painful. As you say no anesthetic or pain killer, I guess no one really knew any better. Things are so different today but I still stay away from doctors until I'm desperate.:rolleyes: Mo
 
I swam a great deal when I was growing up and got a monster verruca
on the sole of my foot. Eventually, several others appeared. The pain was horrible as those who have suffered with them know only too well. My
doctor sent me along with my Mother to the Skin Hospital, which if I remember right was around the area of Hill Street(I could be wrong). The nurse injected the main wart with a huge needle and sent us away. I have mentioned here before that I had to sit with my hands in my pockets whilst waiting to be called. My Mother who wasn't normally paranoid about health issues for some reason did not trust the cleanliness of the Skin Hospital waiting room benches.:rolleyes:

We had a long wait and it was difficult not to fidget and take my hands out of my pockets.

After all this the treatment didn't work. An appointment was made with the Chiropodist, Helen Jones, who worked out of her house on Reservoir Road, Erdington. My Mother was a regular customer and she called the procedures carried out there as "having my feet done":rolleyes:We had to wait until a certain day when. I think it was ice cold nitrogen was brought to the premises to treatment all manner of skin conditions. Once again the treatment applied was painful and I remember limping home. The treatment on the biggy and the small ones worked and I have never had one since.

My daughter picked one up when she was about nine and we went to a local Skin Doctor who told us to come back the next day which was for that office "Nitrogen Day"!
 
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