Radioactive Sand Castle Therapy

I was thinking as I got my sandwich today, wouldn't it be easier if radiation/chemotherapy didn't involve being stuck on a chair or bed for hours while you're slowly poisoned? That's got to be a double whammy, thankfully I've never had cancer but my grandfather died of stomach cancer. It just seems like a bad way to go, you're already being eaten alive by tumors and then countering it with near lethal doses of toxins. To top it off... it's just dull!

Surely there could be a more pleasant way to ingest radiation? Which got me thinking... what about those 'hot' Brazil beaches I saw in Pandora's Promise? Guarapari, Brazil 20 mSv sandy beaches that are more or less as radioactive as the Fukushima fallout zone.

Call it a fools errand but surely playing with all that radiation would have some sort of effect on a body's tumor? Even if only placebo effect, the sheer relaxing activity of building a sandcastle has it's own healing powers. The calm, soothing feeling of sand pouring through your fingers, patting it down with a little shovel... All just melt your troubles away.

So instead of sitting in some room where people are being slowly poisoned to death... why not build some pretty sandcastles? I'm not trying to diminish the importance of chemo/radiation therapy but I do wish it wasn't quite as dismal.