RE: Wearing Radium-Dial Watches - Hazards?

[Karin Gordon <KGordon@exchange.hsc.mb.ca>]

Sandy 

You wrote 
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><<I have been wearing a watch with radium painted hands and face for 
>over 15 years, without issue. The watch has been in the family for 
over 50 years.>>

That's such a great set up line I can't resist !!  "Without issue" in
legal terms usually is taken to mean that you have not produced any
children ... maybe these watches are a novel form of birth control.
Just curious - do you come from a large family?    :-)  

Have a great weekend!

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