Diapers, more uses than the obvious ONE ..........

Got a blog from Oklahoma today, The Mad Is On, relating an incident about a Marine who mistakenly received a "Care" Package that had a Tampon in it. Later on, the Tampon was used to safe the life of a wounded Marine.

We were doing a demo at a grand opening of a Walmart and one of the samples we handed out were individually wrapped diapers. We had an abundance of them, four cases, and there just weren't that many young parents to hand them out to. A couple saw what we were doing, approached us, and asked if they could have a few of the diaper samples.

They stated that many years before, they were just married and on a short trip to the grandparents with their little daughter,  when they came upon a car wreck, they were one of the first on the scene. They said a man in the car was bleeding badly, they needed something, and his wife ran to their car and brought the first thing in site, the diaper bag. She tore open the diaper and placed the diaper over the open wound and it soon stopped bleeding. When the squad came, they say that quick thinking may have saved a life.

They said they always keep some diapers in their car, for emergency spills, or whatever.

From then on, as customers approached, I related how handy they were in the car for "emergencies," and we ultimately gave them all away.

I keep some in each car, to this day. Clean and absorbent, can't beat that.

Decontamination After Radiation Exposure: Simpler Than You May Think

The Japanese government says 20 workers at the disabled Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant have been decontaminated after exposure to radioactive material.

Dozens more, at least, have reportedly been decontaminated within the 12-mile evacuation zone around the plant after Geiger counters picked up evidence of radiation exposure.

That made us wonder just how someone gets decontaminated from radiation – which, after all, is invisible, odorless, tasteless and generally insidious. Most people think of it as "rays," which is partially correct.

The answer might surprise you.

"Decontamination is very simple," says Dr. Eric Toner of the University of Pittsburgh's Center for Biosecurity, who has studied what might happen in the wake of a terrorist's "dirty bomb" attack.

"As a rule of thumb, 80 percent of decontamination is removing your clothes," says Toner, an emergency physician. "And 95 percent is removing your clothes and taking a shower — if possible, shampooing your hair. That's all that's involved. No fancy chemicals."

That's because radiation is carried on dust particles. "The air isn't radioactive, but small dust particles are," Toner explains. "You're essentially washing off the dust."

December 7, 1941

Only one mention on my Facebook, have not heard anything on TV as yet, about this day. It come and goes like any other day, what a shame that is. I think that "someone" wants us to forget what happened on this day many years ago. I remember vividly.

I was nine years old, my Brother was attending DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, and he was living in the Delta Tau Delta Fraternity house there. My Mom and Dad and I had spent the night in a guest house in Greencastle, attended an early morning Chapel Service on campus, and went to the Delt House for lunch.

I was allergic to many things in my younger days, one of which was eggs. The cook at the Delt house made the best Parker House rolls, which I was not supposed to eat, but ate two of them anyway, and later on had an allergy attack, wheezy, eyes swollen. So I was somewhat stretched out on one of the giant leather couches they had in the living room at the fraternity house.

I remember when the announcement came over the radio, the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor. I remember the tension filled hush that went over the room, even at my age, let me know that something of monumental importance had happened. I think all of these young men knew that they would become involved, somehow. They knew what the future held for them.

There were some other events scheduled for that afternoon, but, as I recall, we just said our goodbyes and headed back, in the 1939 Packard, to Dayton, our home.

Dad had served in WWI, and knew of war, Mom had known the worry about loved ones during war time, they both had lived through one war, and now another war was at hand.

I remember the day quite well, I will never forget it, December 7, 1941.

Shower Cleaner Suspected

An article in Better Homes and Garden in the November Holiday issue tells of the ordeal of Minerva Gonzer, who, when, while taking a shower, was viciously attacked by her automatic shower cleaner which went berserk and almost drowned her.

"It was just a little cleaning unit hanging there that we bought at Walmart. I saw them doing a demonstration a few weeks ago and it seemed to work alright there, but today, I hung it up in the shower, got undressed and got in the tub, and all of a sudden it went berserk. Water and soap were gushing out of the unit, and instead of oscillating back and forth, it aimed all of that suds right at me. I was frightened beyond words. I would move to the left and it would follow my movements," Minverva stated, "It followed me everywhere."

She said it finally wore her down and the pressure from the little unite gradually caused her to slid down to the tub, and the constant stream of soap and water caused the tub fill up.

"It wouldn't stop, it was aiming right at my face with a stream that seemed as strong as from a fire hose. I could not believe how much liquid was coming out of that little unit," she commented.

The article stated that both the Police and the Fire Department were summoned, and it took four firemen to finally subdue the little shower cleaner.

"The little thing put up one heck of a fight," fireman Seth Portman stated, "I would hate to go through that again."