Before I started at the LGI I went to the women’s hospital when I was 17. Because you couldn’t do your SRN until you were 18. And if health and safety had been around, then they’d have been horrified because the sister who ran the ward taught me all the nursing things and a lot of it involve treating cancer and you had the radium, they called them bombs because they were that shape, and we used to put a lead jacket on and go and take it out of them. We actually weren’t supposed to be doing anything like that. 

They’d go up into theatre and they’d put so much radium in these little ‘bombs’ in the uterus and they’d time it and then after a certain amount of time the nurses would go and put a lead apron on and remove it and take it through. So I must have been exposed to quite a bit of radiation in my youth. 
Touch wood, it hasn’t had any…