This is how my wife’s radioactive medication was delivered.
Thursday, 13 Mar 2025
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My wife was diagnosed with thyroid cancer a few months ago. Apparently this type of cancer thrives on iodine so she has been on an iodine deficient diet for weeks and now, After surgery, she went in for a radiated iodine pill so the cancer sucks up the iodine and dies.
Edit for anyone curious: [She’s radioactive as fuck.](https://ibb.co/4ZFgz77)
Don’t use a screwdriver to prop open the lid
I went through this 13 years ago, but I had to go into a hospital to get the radioactive pill. I was then told to leave immediately!
Do you keep all that, what I assume is, lead? Or do you return it all?
And how do you dispose of the radioactive container afterward?
Are the blocks lead? What about the sides and top? How much radiation? So many question!
Good luck to your wife!!
Good thing radioactivity doesn’t move vertically
Been there! Plus they hold a geiger counter at you to make sure it is in your system! Best of luck! Fortunately it is extremely effective 🙂
I had that treatment 40 years ago. They brought it to me dressed while the docs were in yellow suits with hoods and gloves. Opened the lead jar, used tongs to pull out a small glass bottle, opened the bottle and told me to hold out my hand. Then they dumped a pill into my bare hand, gave me water and sent me on my way. Scary thing for a kid to go through. I hope the process wasn’t as bad.
It’s called a lead castle
Fuck cancer homie. Best to you and yours.
Mine was delivered in a fancy hand cart, with a single handle at waist-height and a large lead-lined cylinder.
There’s something uniquely strange about being encouraged to touch, let alone consume, something that everyone else in the room is afraid of. And something uniquely isolating about needing to look at everything you touch as contaminated, filthy, and dangerous. I know you didn’t ask for advice but if you’re up for taking any, please make sure that she doesn’t feel alone or disgusting. It has a lasting impact. You guys have all my best wishes.
Spicy peanut.
That looks expensive.
I just went through this same treatment last month. It was very weird to see this too.
My wife had thyroid cancer about 10 years ago and her radioactive pill was delivered in the same canister. I made sure to buy a Geiger counter on Amazon so I could measure her. 😄
Fuck cancer.
Wishing her a fast and full recovery.
My cousin had this done when we were kids. We weren’t allowed to eat/drink off of anything after her and the bathroom had to be disinfected after every time she used it. I think it only lasted a week or less, but this was like 30 years ago so it’s hard to remember exactly.
It’s amazing how heavy the container is too. I had this done 4 yrs ago and will be doing it again sometime soon I hope. It’s weird how the nurses came in wearing what looked like space suits to protect themselves from radioactive pills that I was about to swallow.
My wife just finished her treatments 6 months ago sorry brother I know what your going through
Way back in the 1970’s I had a job working in a defunct hospital nursing school. I had a skull for learning anatomy. The really funky thing was a large box (half loaf of bread) satin lined labeled Radioactive Cobalt.
I got that thing moved to radiology ASAP
So they just leave three lead bricks on a lab table in a weirdly labeled file cabinet home?
Do you get to keep the lead bricks?
I had this experience 12 years ago. Best to your wife many years of health ahead.
Are those lead bricks?!
I want one of those bricks
My mom had breast cancer treatment a couple yrs ago and my pops has been dealing with skin cancer most of this yr. Hope it all works out for the better. Stay strong for her and y’all got this.
Holy crap, best wishes to you and her both. Just remind her next time she is feeling down in the future that they had to surround her meds with large lead bricks for protection, but knew she was strong enough to handle it. Best of luck.
That’s I-131 for the thyroid. Let’s fucking go. That’s the real deal hot stuff. Get ready to sleep on the couch for a bit
handle with gloves or wash hands after handling those bricks. I have to do this whenever I use my button press since it has lead
I work at a lab that can make this isotope, it’s interesting to see the end user.
A few month of those meds and youll be able to build yourself a neat little bunker
Is she Superman?
So that entire container is for 1 pill?
now imagine me visiting a nuclear site where they had a lead wall. I think it was lead and it was like a quarter of a mile thick. It also had controls where it could be moved back-and-forth. It was really wild.
Those are lead blocks?
Wow. Send details! Weight? Size? COST OF SHIPPING?!? Type of packaging!?! Anything instruction of what to do with them?!
It’s more than mildly interesting; let’s make it more so!
Mine was brought out in a small lead urn type of container. I swallowed it with a glass of water, made the Geiger counter beep really fast, got escorted very quickly out of the hospital, and went home to quarantine for 2 weeks.
Isn’t this how the first nuclear reaction actually happened?
Are you allowed to keep those blocks?
Isn’t this how the first nuclear reaction actually happened?
Yeah, don’t mess with invisible death rays from toxic metals.
Lead bricks are interesting and good luck to your wife op
They lead the way.
Is your wife a rogue superhero OP?
This all looks like a plot to get bricks for hurricane-proof housing. Those lead bricks are not going anywhere in a storm.
Best of luck with the treatment.
Bet that box was crazy heavy.
They use an iodine with a tracer when they do a thyroid scan with uptake and they give you a pill in a black bottle with thick gloves.
What are the bricks made of?
I had this treatment 10 years ago and am now fighting fit. Before being released from isolation a dude in a hazmat suit went over me with a geiger counter. It’s certainly a wild memory.
Best of luck to your wife!
Good luck to you both OP!