How would you be feeling if you were in a Russian hospital being "treated" for POLONIUM 210 poisoning?

Question

An unidentified source also said a "number" of Lugovoi's organs had been damaged by radiation, although his condition was "significantly better" than Kovtun's.

Like Litvinenko, Kovtun and Lugovoi had been agents in Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB).

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Like many former military men, Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitry Kovtun, the Russian businessmen at the centre of the Litvinenko affair, have remained close through thick and thin.

As children they played together, and as teenagers they both entered the same elite Moscow military institute. As adults they served together in a Kremlin regiment. Later fate pushed them apart as Mr Kovtun headed to Czechoslovakia and Germany with the army. Mr Lugovoi was recruited into the ninth directorate of the KGB in 1987

Today, now both 40, they lie in a secret Moscow clinic as doctors test them for radioactive poisoning.

One Russian news agency quoted medical sources as saying that checks on Mr Lugovoi had shown that some of his organs had malfunctioned, apparently as a result of a radioactive substance.

Mr Lugovoi himself was later reported to have said that he was feeling "normal". His lawyer said his condition was not an obstacle to his interrogation and that he did not know why the questioning had been delayed again.

Meanwhile, uncertainty continued to surround the condition of Mr Kovtun. After claims that he had slipped into a coma following questioning by detectives, it was then reported that he had regained consciousness but that he was in a serious condition with radiation damage to his intestines and kidneys.

However, Mr Lugovoi's lawyer, Andrei Romashov, said Mr Kovtun's condition was "the same" as it was before the meeting and claimed the report was "aimed at creating a negative atmosphere around this case".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,,-6267819,00.html

One Russian news agency quoted medical sources as saying that checks on Mr Lugovoi had shown that some of his organs had malfunctioned, apparently as a result of a radioactive substance.

Mr Lugovoi himself was later reported to have said that he was feeling "normal". His lawyer said his condition was not an obstacle to his interrogation and that he did not know why the questioning had been delayed again.

Meanwhile, uncertainty continued to surround the condition of Mr Kovtun. After claims that he had slipped into a coma following questioning by detectives, it was then reported that he had regained consciousness but that he was in a serious condition with radiation damage to his intestines and kidneys.

However, Mr Lugovoi's lawyer, Andrei Romashov, said Mr Kovtun's condition was "the same" as it was before the meeting and claimed the report was "aimed at creating a negative atmosphere around this case".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,,-6267819,00.html

Answer 1

Was Litvinenko poisoned or was he carrying the Polonum-210 himself for a long period? Maybe he just forgot that Polonim-210 has a half life of only 138 days ? There is the possibility that the Russians poisoned him in his sushi (using the expensive Polonum-210 akin to hitting a mouse with a howitzer) with the same substance he was carrying himself illegally but traces found on planes that Litvinenko used and other places he visited including his own home, might suggest that he was carrying something illegal that he knew little about. He may have simply been acting as a carrier for the element, used along with berryllium as a trigger in suitcase nuclear bombs, the kind coveted by al-Qaeda. His sympathies certainly lay with the Chechnyan jihadists and his last act was to be buried as a Muslim, inspite of having been born Orthodox Christian. The traces of Polonium all over the place suggest something more than just "internal" poisoning. The Russians might have also used the same element to poison him, hoping that someone would make the connection that he was carrying an unusual quantity of Polonum himself and had ingested it as it got on his person while it deteriorated, including in his sushi.

Answer 2

Scared skitless. Would you want to be in a Russian hosp;
suffering with anytrhing? Would you want to be in Russia?

Answer 3

I would feel very, very sick as I would be in the hospital with polonium 210 poisoning!

Answer 4

just wait till the S&P liberal government takes over here and you'll be able to lay in any US hospital and answer that very question.

Answer 5

Not my ideal way to say goodbye. Wha happened to good old arsenic?

Answer 6

They wouldn't be able to figure it out, so I'd be frightened to death.

Answer 7

I imagine that I would be feeling pretty sick.

Answer 8

DUHHH,,,,,,,,,,PRETTY CRAPPY I WOULD IMAGINE

Answer 9

dead.