Fukushima: A woman speaks out about health problems – ‘Until this summer, my teeth were healthy’
By arevamirpal::laprimavera
2 January 2012 Teeth and toenails falling off and clumps of hair coming off, she reports in her blog. She doesn’t seem to care any more if people dismiss her as fabricating the story, and just tells as a matter of fact what’s been happening to her and her husband, probably both in their early 40s. They live in Minami Soma City in Fukushima Prefecture, within 25 kilometers from the wrecked plant. The district she and husband live have somehow escaped the designation of any “evacuation zone”, even though she says the radiation is just as high or higher. She was a high school teacher until 2 years ago, and now she teaches children at her home. My Japanese blog readers sent me the link to her blog some time ago. I read the posts, researched the response to her blog from people I trust on the net. I have little reason to [think] this is a fake, she sounds sincere, though it is my personal judgment and I could be wrong. There are many who have attacked her as rumor- and fear-mongering, to which she responds “Look at the reality. Study physics and think for yourselves. No point in getting emotional and wasting time.” She isn’t claiming her conditions are due to the radiation exposure since the accident. She just describes her conditions and asks for rational explanations for the conditions, which haven’t been forthcoming, as you can see in the very first post linked and translated below. Well, all spring and summer last year, nosebleed, diarrhea, and bruises were “baseless rumors”. Meltdown was a baseless rumor, radiation contamination was a baseless rumor. The following passages are from her blog, “Numayu no blog“. From the entry on 1/2/2012:Went to see the dentist on duty for the holidays, as I just couldn’t stand the pain of my “dens caninus” tooth which was all exposed to the nerve. However, no matter how I explained to the dentist, he kept insisting that it would never go bad like this in such a short period of time (3 months). When I told him that my dental treatment had been completed before March 11, he didn’t believe it. He just said “It’s not possible”. He said this could only happen if one didn’t brush one’s teeth for 2 to 3 years.
I simply lost interest in trying to explain. My husband was there, and he tried to tell him, but he shut up when the doctor said “I only accept objective data.” Until this summer, my teeth were healthy. My teeth were sturdy. Until this summer.From the entry on 12/31/2011, on her friend’s hair:
A very good friend of mine since high school just dropped by to say hello. We occasionally talked over the phone about my head (balding and hair falling off) and her condition. She’s 42 years old. She came wearing a wig. When she took it out, I had no words to say. She evacuated [after the accident] to the inland area near the Fukushima-Miyagi border. But when the reactors were exploding and when the vent was being done, she was right near by [in Minami Soma]. With her permission, I’m sharing these sad photos. She and I both started to lose hair in large quantities starting October. This is the head of a healthy, 42-year-old woman. She is quite active, and she works. Can you believe it? In 3 months she has lost so much hair. Now you understand why I wanted to cut my hair short to 3 centimeters long. Right now, I have more hair than her, but if I had kept it long I would have lost much more hair. When I saw her in October, she had her own hair in a bun. What is it that’s happening? […]
Do you suppose this is for real?
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/01/worst-vegetable-mutation/