Need help with medical issue

[Ricklin]

Absolutely, Health issues are truly the worst. The old saying at least you have your health? By far the least!! Numero Uno for everyone of us is our health. Humans are quite difficult to repair, takes lots more than O-rings and seals. BTW that is difficult spelled COSTLY. I often remind folks how cheap glasses are versus eye surgery, good muffs are 20 bucks, good hearing aids are 2000 bucks. We pays our money and we make our choices, very important to remember when making those choices, when the issues do come up decades later it is not fixable with lifestyle changes. We did have that choice at one time. If you can't be a shining example, you could still be a horrible warning. Not picking on our OP here at all, the only thing worse than getting older? NOT getting older.

 

[Revoman]

Okay, gonna mail the pellets in about a half hour.
Wanted to show you the box and tin that these are from.
The Yellow Box has a store named GEMCO on it, that store was around in the early 70's. It states "Lead Pellets" right on the box.
The tin has no store brand on it, but I bought it at a swap meet about 25 years ago, full of pellets for $5.
I hope that these help you with the issue.

mike

 

[Ricklin]

You sir are an awesome individual, Glad our OP can easily get around the silliness that some darn millennial came up with because they read about it on the internet. I got a kick out of some of the things dental assistants came up with over the years about the dreaded radiation when I was working. I would be the first to advocate for greater emphasis on physics in education, it is how everything works!

 

[Frank in Fairfield]

I have some too:

 

[Frank in Fairfield]

I gave a box of ash cans to Motorhead for his Benji..

 

[jkingrph]

I can't believe they left lead inside of your body. And here we're worried about handling pellets and slugs.

That's very good of you revoman!

I have an Aunt who died a couple of years ago, in her late 80's. She was the youngest of 9 childred in a small villeage in east/central Louisiana. Some years earlier, I think when she was in her late 50's to early 60's she started haveing some headaches.,so they did some x rays and discovered what appeared to be a small bullet lodged in her brain. My mother who was 16-18 years older said that when the aunt was an infant that they had her outside on a back porch when she suddenly started crying and bleeding from a spot on her head. Apparently the bleeding stopped rather quickly and and she stopped crying. I was told she was never carried to a doctor, nearest was probably about 10 miles away at that time. Anyway the doctors said the object had no bearing on her headaches, and they stopped on their own after a few weeks. We, being nephews and neices nicknamed her leadhead after that. She lived I am guessing about another 30 years with that little piece of lead in her head with no problems.

Bottom line a small piece of lead in the body does not necessarily lead to long term health problems

 

[jkingrph]

The barking stupid comment has a basis. Dogs bark at things they do not understand. Scrap metal dealers were the source of my ire the last few years I was working. It is difficult to scrap X-ray equipment, major companies have national policies that refuse to accept X-ray equipment due to radiation fears. Let's just ignore the laws of physics shall we? Radiation therapy equipment is very different and dangerous, scrap X-ray equipment has zero residual radiation, that is physically impossible. Hint: They will not accept a dental panoramic X-ray machine. They will accept a dental panoramic scanner. All about words. Barking stupid. Rather like claiming your boat is radioactive because you have a radar unit.

Really strange, a scanner like mentioned also generates x rays, probably at a much lower doseage than some of the x ray types that require the use of film.

 

[HogKiller]

I have an Aunt who died a couple of years ago, in her late 80's. She was the youngest of 9 childred in a small villeage in east/central Louisiana. Some years earlier, I think when she was in her late 50's to early 60's she started haveing some headaches.,so they did some x rays and discovered what appeared to be a small bullet lodged in her brain. My mother who was 16-18 years older said that when the aunt was an infant that they had her outside on a back porch when she suddenly started crying and bleeding from a spot on her head. Apparently the bleeding stopped rather quickly and and she stopped crying. I was told she was never carried to a doctor, nearest was probably about 10 miles away at that time. Anyway the doctors said the object had no bearing on her headaches, and they stopped on their own after a few weeks. We, being nephews and neices nicknamed her leadhead after that. She lived I am guessing about another 30 years with that little piece of lead in her head with no problems.

Bottom line a small piece of lead in the body does not necessarily lead to long term health problems

Well, a lot of scientific studies have shown that lead to the brain can cause an onboard computer malfunction. Just sayin'.

 

[Revoman]

Okay.
The pellets left SoCal this morning with a delivery of next Monday.
I hope that they are useful for your situation.

mike

 

[lovingia]

lovingia --=--​

I will ship a few from each tin out today.
You may want to edit your above reply and remove the address, just in case (?).
Happy to help!

mike

Thank you again sir!

 

[Revoman]

Not a problem, happy to help.

mike

 

[Ricklin]

Really strange, a scanner like mentioned also generates x rays, probably at a much lower doseage than some of the x ray types that require the use of film.

It is exactly the same thing. The ONLY difference is what I call it when I call the scrap metal guys. If I say panoramic X-ray? No bueno. If I say panoramic scanner they ask how much it weighs, and yes bring it right over! I am not lying were there ANY danger whatsoever I would not mislead them and enjoy their ignorance. My local guys darn near cheer when I bring them a machine, they pay for #2 scrap steel, their guys tear it apart for all the copper, lead and aluminum. I get a couple bucks and the machine gets recycled they make 30-40 bucks, it's all good.

 

[lovingia]

Not a problem, happy to help.

mike

Pellets arrived yesterday. Brought back some great memories (and one painful one). They will be put to good use. Not too scientific, but the heavy magnet that takes a gorilla to get off the steel cabinet in the garage has no effect on them. If it looks like lead and acts like lead it must be....
Thank you again.

 

[Ricklin]

Pellets arrived yesterday. Brought back some great memories (and one painful one). They will be put to good use. Not too scientific, but the heavy magnet that takes a gorilla to get off the steel cabinet in the garage has no effect on them. If it looks like lead and acts like lead it must be....
Thank you again.

Are they billing your insurance for testing the pellets? It would be interesting to know, health care costs are already out of control. I tend to wonder how much silliness like testing lead pellets may increase those costs.
All too often they are over the top in their concern.

 

[MACTEN]

Do you know someone with a good metal detector? The better ones will tell you exactly what the metal is in your leg.