Sorry for being *really* late on this, but...I have been away and am
just getting close to caught up. I've never used a mercury intensifier,
BUT...my question is when should I look for what symptoms? As a child
(8-12 years old) I used to *play* with some of the mercury left in my
grandfather's things (he and his father were both dentists). One of the
not-infrequent activities of our small group of hellions was to take
pennies, *rub* mercury all over them (with our bare hands, of course),
and then see how many we could pawn off as dimes in drugstore purchases.
I've reached 65 and have grown no new appendages, and I can still type
(at least well enough for this), and don't use a spellchecker. One of
the other members of the group taught at West Point for years, then
worked for Pfizer, and became Head Selectman for a New Jersey town (OK,
maybe the last one isn't a sign of sanity...). Others have lived to
this day. Maybe there's a backwards connection - to my knowledge, none
of that group has passed away!
My real question is how have we all reached seniority without visible
signs of problems? This was not a one-time thing; thirty to fifty
times, times a dozen or so coins each time, would be closer.
Also - just to be perverse, I guess - I have a one-pound glass jar of
mercury in with my photographic miscellany.
And why can't we have batteries, but we can have fluorescent lights...
Any clues?
-Bill
On Saturday, July 8, 2006, at 07:12 AM, Tim Rudman wrote:
I'm catching up over the weekend on PS emails from when I was away, and came
late on this thread.
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