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Helene Ryding's avatar

Great article as well

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Carpetblogger's avatar

Right??? The "now what is this good for?" question doesn't get answered with a lot of clarity. The medicine room was crazy. Dozens of bottles of powders. My Ukrainian friend had no idea what the labels meant. Did not sample.

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Chris Holzen's avatar

May I strongly recommend the Aurora Sanatorium in Cholpon-Ata, Kyrgyzstan - you get a “passport zdaroveyeh” upon checking in. Conisder it a paper, pre-iWatch heart monitor which employs old babushkas with pencils. Anyway, it will delight the heart of your readers in search of pre-Euroremont communal comraderie on the shores of Lake Issy-kul where Canadian gold mining takes place. Radon is the least of your pleasures there.

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Helene Ryding's avatar

I too know about radon baths. In 1998, I was given a tour of a hospital near Chernobyl, I guess in the hope the EU would pay for its refurbishment and we were offered a cabinet where we could sit and have a radon bath. I don’t remember what it was good for, but at the time the UK was changing the building code to keep radon seeping out of the rocks in Cornwall into the ground floors of houses. I thought what was bad there, was probably bad in a bath too.

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