While traveling to St.Petersburg to get yet another consult from a Neurologist, my 13 year old daughter, Kirsten, who is diagnosed with a syrinx on the T 7-11, and I were talking about a wide variety of subjects. She suddenly inquired of me, did I know that cat skins emit radiation?

I immediately thought of her Manx cat Peachy, who we adopted as a stray. I replied, "How can that be? I have never heard of such a thing, and how would she have ever been in contact with radiation as she is always inside? And if that is the case, she needs to stop sleeping with you."

She looked at me funny and asked "Mom, what are you talking about?"

I said, "Peachy [the cat], it doesn't make sense about this radiation, where did you hear that?"

She started to laugh hysterically and said "CT scans mom."

We laughed for several miles. Finally I chimed in that when she becomes a vet, we need to make a sign for the waiting room that has a picture of a cat with radiation emitting from it and a warning.

- Jan Boileau, Florida