I feel like I always had a direction, a goal to work towards [e.g., college, career (I work with disabled kids), find an amazing spouse, have close friends, and be an interesting person (my husband and I met dancing, our main hobby together is dancing)],
We found out only months later when cancer rates had skyrocketed, that he had ground up the radioactive cores of every smoke detector he had and dumped it in the out going flow .