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Was that firemans wife retarded?

posted 5 years ago by Mister Babadook (2623)
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She just blatantly ignored the doctor anytime she was told something, right off the bat the doctor told her not to stay longer than 30 minutes and don't touch him, what did she do? ran right in there 2 seconds after that and hugged him and stayed way past 30 minutes, and even kissed his freaking skin multiple times.

Then when the dude is in real bad shape, skin deteriorating and decomposing, the doctor told her she can stay with him but not go inside the plastic, whats she do? goes directly inside the plastic....and to top all this shit off shes fucking pregnant, then grabs his fucking hand, i just wanted to jump in the screen and slap this stupid bitch.

Like she didn't even debate it over in her head, she would just directly ignore the doctors orders and go and touch him right after she was told not to. Its a good thing there wasn't acid in a jar in there and was told not to drink it cause it will kill her cause this stupid bitch would likely go and drink it.

[–] Kaiserblade (17) 5 years ago

Just saw that episode and 100% agree annoyed the hell out of me. Ok maybe she loved him and didn't care if she got infected, but she knew she was pregnant! What a selfish cow!!

[–] andreaahr (2332) 5 years ago

I agree with you. That poor unborn baby absorbed most of the radiation and she miscarried because of it. She didn't even think about how this would affect her baby at all....

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

what i want to know is :
how is an unborn baby some kind of radiation magnet that sucks the radiation out of its mother?
perhaps if doctors worked that principle out they could make some kind of machine ,or pill, to do the same thing.

[–] zeesha (1753) 5 years ago

Let's say you have an X-ray in the hospital and then go back home. Will you keep your distance from family members for their safety? Obviously, that won't be necessary. So why those firemen were different cases? I think it is because they absorbed a lot of radio-active smoke and dust into their body, so much so that the radiation from their body could put others in danger. In real life, the wife claimed that the doctor only told her not to touch the patient but had never explained the danger to her.
If you have to call someone retarded, then the writer of this TV show may deserve that honor, especially with his "the mother was saved because the baby absorbed all the radiation" kind of crap.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

The firefighter was oozing pus at the end. You could definitely get radiation sickness from that. It's especially bad if you're pregnant.

Comparing the firefighter's exposure to having an X-ray is like comparing ebola to the cold flu.

[–] zeesha (1753) 5 years ago

Bad analogy. Both Ebola and the flu are contagious and are caused by viruses. Exposure to radiation doesn't make you radioactive, no matter how many doses.

[–] LukewarmCereal (88) 4 years ago

No, but being surrounded by smoke from burning fuel rods and graphite, breathing in particles of radioactive dust so it fills your lungs, gets into your blood stream, is absorbed into your skin... THAT can make you dangerous to be around.

[–] zeesha (1753) 4 years ago

Right. I explained this in my previous comment, but you definitely described it more vividly than I did. My point is that ARD patients are usually not "contagious". Those firefighters were the extreme case, therefore we shouldn't blame the wife too much for not knowing the danger of touching or being around her dying husband. Agree?

[–] LukewarmCereal (88) 4 years ago

I absolutely wouldn't blame her. No-one at the time or now could know how much risk they actually posed to those treating them. I'd just assume the worst case scenario, and take appropriate precautions. But that's easier for the nurses and doctors to act on than a wife watching her husband slowly die in agony.

[–] asom (6509) 2 years ago

Well,

I think the main point is not if she was in danger by doing so but that she disregarded the doctor advice while knowing nothing about what could happen.

And actually we ALWAYS do that, more or less.

I bet that we all know people that where told by a doctor "if you don't stop smoking you will die" and they ... died.

[–] zeesha (1753) 2 years ago

Or maybe the mother chose to have an abortion. And, "the baby absorbed all the radiation" is just an excuse. Should we blame her? I won't.
(Read more: Increase in Induced Abortions in Europe - Chernobyl Accident https://www.env.go.jp/en/chemi/rhm/basic-info/1st/03-08-12.html)

[–] bigmal (93) 5 years ago

What a stupid post, none of them knew what radiation meant. However, she knew what love is, it's blind can't you see that?

[–] Mister Babadook (2623) 5 years ago

Lol stupid post? that bitch was stupid, she saw clear as day what radiation was when he was damn near rotted with the plastic walls around him, the doctor urged her more than once not to touch him or go past the plastic and she did, she saw what he looked like and the doctor made sure she knew it was dangerous to come in contact with him. It was pretty clear he was contagious and shouldn't be touched.

Please don't try and defend a stupid woman who was pregnant and chose to ignore a doctor who made it very clear it was dangerous to touch him or go near him. She lost her child cause of that and the child she had later on had alot of health problems.

[–] Adam60z (3749) 5 years ago

Actually this whole scenario was fictionalized, since radiation isn't contagious. If the wife hugged her husband, that's not possible to cause the baby to die.

[–] LukewarmCereal (88) 4 years ago

She probably lost the baby due to living in Pripyat during and after the accident. I wouldn't say it's impossible that she got some extra dose from radiation coming out of her husband (not OFF her husband. He wasn't radioactive, but may have contained radioactive material he breathed in), but it would be trivial compared to the exposure she got in Pripyat.

[–] Alerra (244) 3 years ago

Also, the historical woman was seven months pregnant at the time of the incident, so the medical staff in Moscow would probably have been aware. So while this whole storyline may not have been handled well, I wouldn't go about putting all the blame on Lyudmilla in real life.

[–] Poopsey1 (897) 2 years ago

Do you really need to type the idiot "lol"?

[–] L1 (1316) 4 years ago

The movie was all effed up right?
And that guy was just a train wreck

[–] Killermueck (155) 4 years ago

The misconception is that in real life the patients had to be isolated because of their collapsed immune system and the subsequent infections. I don't think a person can emit gamma radiation strong enough to radiate bystanders but maybe alpha or beta particles could find a way inside another person if he or she is in close contact with the patient.

[–] Bloodworth79 (5563) 4 years ago

Yeah that was frustrating.....one nurse says what are you doing here and she says, well no one told me to leave.

Then the nurse reminds her that she was the one who told her no longer then 30 min.

Stay behind the plastics. Nope

Dont touch...nope

Dont kiss the puss buckets...nope

[–] Poopsey1 (897) 2 years ago

She certainly was a very annoying character, but aren't most women?

[–] CallmeV (140) 2 years ago

It depends on how you see it. From a Western point of view, yeah, she is stupid, but from someone who lived under the Iron Curtain, it was understandable.
People did not know what was happening at that point, she couldn't understand what her husband was doing, why he looked like this because doctors did not explain that much.

I remember I saw a few years ago a newspaper cut from one country in the Eastern Block, the date was 8th of may, so close to two weeks since it happened. It said something like: Small explosion at the Chernobyl plant, the scientist and the local firemen have everything under control and they will resume work soon.

Try searching what the media said at that time, but NOT the Western one, but from countries that in 1986 were still under the curtain. You might understand her a bit.

[–] [deleted] 2 years ago

I don't think she really understood the dangers of radiation, how there can be a delay before you really feel the effects. All I can do is speculate about what she was thinking, but possibly she didn't realize that she shouldn't have gone near him because he's radioactive.