Erika Bonham dot com

November 9, 2002

I am praying to the Lord that the fact that I interact with fairly caustic, dangerous chemicals and things on occasion at work will not result in three eyed mutant children or the such. I was thinking about it last night. When I take care of someone on chemo, I am supposed to flush their pee twice before it goes down to protect the people that use the toilet after them. Yet, it's okay for me to be disposing of the urine and touching these people and hanging out all night interacting with their body fluids and stuff because I have a think layer of latex between the fluids and myself. We also have patients receiving radiation occasionally. There is a little room near the nurse's station we have had a few of these people in. If you are caring for these people, you are allowed to spend about 5 or 10 minutes in the same room as them for the whole shift. Come to find out, someone informed us the other day that the location of this room is too close in distance to a desk we can sit at for hours or so throughout the night. They stated it was possible we were been radiated as we sat there. Lovely. Isn't that pleasant. I think I have been fairly careful. I hope that my children will be healthy and that my eggs aren't morphing into sickly little babies of the future. I guess I can just continue to be careful and pray for healthy little ones and that my eggs will stay in ship shape shape.

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