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Clinical Manifestations of Radiation Exposure

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Information on this page is not intended to be used for a genuine medical emergency. If you believe you have radiation burns you must go immediately to your nearest hospital

It's important to note that radiation burn injuries are extremely rare and only occur from close contact with ionizing materials as an accident, or from cancer treatment. Prognosis really depends on the length of time of exposure, existing medical conditions and promptness of treatment. If a radiation burn is bad enough to progress to the necrosis stage, the patient is usually considered a terminal case of radiation poisoning and nothing more can be done to save them. For necrosis to occur with chronic exposure, repeated DNA damage is necessary leading to cellular breakdown and a complete loss of blood supply to the area. This is extremely rare; radiation burns are often severe enough to remove outer layers of skin quickly giving little time for necrosis to set in (and the patient dies). 

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A memorial to a terrible tragedy:

 

It is difficult to immortalize the subject of a truely evil terrorist attack without seeming tasteless. A tiny (5cm) piece of faceted, overly-polished glass cannot convey the heartbreak of 9/11, but this particular mini statue is one of the only "good" ones I've found for sale online. It catches and throws the light in a beautiful way and I imagine it looked heavenly while on display inside a jewellery store somewhere in the USA, where it came from. I think it would have been in better taste without the date of its death printed onto the base, but at least we can know that this was made after the attacks and not simply a tourist piece that were commonly sold on the plaza in Manhattan.

 

The glass statue comes with a navy blue faux-leather case, filled with black foam to protect its fragile contents. On the bottom of the box are remnants of a product information sticker and a price tag, although unfortunately some of the numbers are completely unreadable. It may have been useful to have the product code for further investigation.

 

 

I've already tried parsing these images through Google Lens, but nothing even remotely similar has been found. I can find examples of the "tourist souvenir" versions which do look similar, but those are also widely available still on Ebay. This particular statue was too expensive, perhaps? The price tag states $95 which in ~2001 would have been a lot of money to spend on a small piece of glass that gets absolutely absorbed when displayed on a shelf, it takes up very little space. Calculating for inflation today turns $95 in 2001 into $165 in 2025, which I am still certain would not have sold many little glass statues of the World Trade Center, despite how lovely it looks and the meaning behind it. But really, why are there no pictures of these statues? I would expect at least a handful of them to have survived. Or is mine the only one left?

 

 

 

I am going to try to get in touch with Roman Inc to see if they can tell me more about this item, although I am not holding out much hope because I am not American and I don't have any more product information outside of the pictures you can see here. If they don't know, then I have nothing!