Friday, December 22, 2006

Mesthelioma Cancer

I've finished my research on Mesthelioma Cancer - for now. We did get a good scare when we renovated our home. We never thought that our 'dream home' could be the death of us. The plaster and Lath, while it is still pre 1920, we are covering the rest.

Mesthelioma Cancer is preventable, for the most part. Common sense, but we wish that someone had warned us. All the hardware stores we walked into, all the magazines we read, and nothing warned us not to pull the plaster and Lath off. It was mere chance that we found information suggesting that we were putting our lives in danger.

Mesthelioma Cancer seems to be one of the cancers they are finding a cure for. It appears that people are living longer.

I know that, after 40, there are no guarantees. There is the blessing that you can say goodbye, but who wants to say goodbye knowing that the grief could have been postponed.

I want to grow old with my children like my grandfather did, active into his 90s. I do not want to waste away in a nursing home, or on the couch like my 73 year old father.

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