Deadly Disease

A friend of ours called last night in tears because her mother had just been diagnosed with a fatal disease called mesothelioma. The doctors has given her less than a year because there is no known cure for this type of cancer which is only caused by exposure to asbestos.

Her mother never worked outside the home, but as a little girl she would climb up in her father's lap when he got finished working in the local shipyards. Apparently asbestos was used a lot in shipbuilding. The doctor said that is how she was exposed and told her the disease can take anywhere from 2o to 50 years to manifest itself.

Sometimes life can be so unfair.