I hope you weren't the vet assistant who's gotten into the habit of X-raying your hand! lol

Of course the second is gravid, ooh a daisy

In response to the above post, one set of X-rays only raises the risk of deformity by the smallest fraction of a percent. Especially with snakes as the mAs used is very minute. As pertained to by my joke about the hand, it is repeated Xray's over a long period of time that may disrupt the nucleic matter in multiplying cells. Thus it is fast developing tissue that is most at risk, ie the gonads and/or fetal tissue. X-ray technicians wear docometers to measure the radiation they are succepted to. I've never had mine even register on the scale given. It may be different however if I wore it on my finger and left it in the shot (*poke*)

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• X-Ray picture... - ghackney, Mon Jul 5 19:27:06 2004
• RE: X-Ray picture... - obz, Mon Jul 5 19:36:12 2004
• I know!!! They're piebald!! - SNAKE26, Mon Jul 5 21:03:05 2004
• Is this a test or are you really asking? np - drasticplastic, Mon Jul 5 21:29:17 2004
• The second is gravid. n/p - Sunshine, Mon Jul 5 21:39:16 2004
• RE: X-Ray picture... - snakepimp, Mon Jul 5 23:27:39 2004
• RE: X-Ray picture... - ghackney, Tue Jul 6 10:13:46 2004
• RE: X-Ray picture... - IAHerper, Tue Jul 6 23:21:54 2004
• RE: X-Ray picture... - joeysgreen, Thu Jul 8 20:12:06 2004