Life can wield strange twists of fate, manifest-destiny if you like, that we simply take for granted. How a person can be in a war, or two, and go through combat then come home untouched by blade or bullet only to be taken out by a disease. Talk about a really sick joke by Mother Nature. In many cases we, as a planetary whole, are to blame for many(most) of our ills. We were given innoculation's as children only to find out that since we really didn't have that particular ailment as a child we have a higher risk as an adult to get a worse form of it, such as Chicken Pox when it becomes a very painful Shingles because it laid dormant on the nerves and woke up when you got older. Measles made a comeback as well because many thought it was a done deal buit the third world wanted to share with us, how nice. My father-in-law was a combat veteran in Korea in the 101st Airborne Div and came home in one piece. He drove a semi but wanted more for his family so he got on the fire department in the town where they lived. He went into too many structure fires before the ventilators were available and brought home a prize for his work, Mesothelioma. Asbestos was very prevalent in buildings in years gone by in insulation, paneling, ceiling tiles and even furnace wrappings(we had one on our furnace when I was a kid). The asbestos gets into the lungs and irritates the lining of the lungs and causes white cells to react to destroy the invading threat. Guess what? Asbestos is a mineral and a simple white cell can't touch it so what does your body do? It sends even more white cells till it becomes a terminal illness, unless you can get some new lungs I guess. There has been litigation going on for years, many years, and the companies that were responsible for it's use in manufacturing are for the most part long out of business.
If you become affected by any of these or similar incidents the best thing to do is your homework and become well informed before making potentially life altering decisions.
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