How my life change when I learn about mesothelioma cancer, I was home playing with my grandson and I felt a mild chest pain followed by coughing a small amount of blood out of my mouth. That was just the beginning of my painful journey with a friend I never wanted and his name is peritoneal mesothelioma.
My name is Wilson A. Workman a retired construction worker from Chicago Illinois and a loving father of three gorgeous women. I currently reside in Pasadena California with my wife Monica in our retirement home. It is not the fanciest house on the curve but the little money with both make in the construction industry is pretty nice. My wife Monica worked as an electrician for many years before she retired. I in the other hand busted my behind for well over thirty years, I was working for a company that remodels the old building in Chicago and sometimes we travel across Lake Michigan as well. In all of those years of hard-worked, I never felted this horrible pain that I’m currently dealing with these days. I have accidents yeah however they were nothing more than the usual piece of the wooden floor falling in your head. I remember a time when my late friend John and I almost were run over by an out of control truck. Aside from a few more incidents, nothing kept me from bringing home food for my family.
Well after the coughing did not stop on that Tuesday morning my daughter Elisabeth have to call emergency. I was rushed to the hospital and stayed overnight awaiting some x-rays. The next morning the doctor came into the room with my daughter and he said, Mr. Wilson, I believe you have an advanced state of bronchial carcinoma. My reaction was normal and I answered doc just give me the usual medication for the flu. My daughter Elisabeth quickly dropped a tear, and she said dad it is not the flue. What the doctor means is you have terminal lung cancer.
But how I never smoked cigarettes in my life, that diagnosis cannot be correct. Never the less the doctor submitted me to some more medical texts and they all were positives for lung cancer. For over thirty years I was exposed to asbestos, arsenic, chromium and nickel carcinogens. Now I clearly remember when old man Joe never stops talking about mesothelioma risks, I never asked him what that was until now while on this hospital bed.
What a sad situation for my family but I have to be strong and fight until the very end. I asked my youngest daughter Wendy to bring me some books about mesothelioma and asbestos so that I could read more about it. Even thus my wife did not approve that I worried too much about it and that leaves it to the medical staff and the lord above. But since I always read novels and to tell you the truth being in a hospital so many days is not the best of times.
Wendy brought me a book called A Patient's Guide to Mesothelioma by Joseph W. Belluck. The book is great it helps you understand what is mesothelioma and asbestos. For the next few months, I underwent many treatments that included Radio surgery an intense and I mean intense radiation treatment that aims many beams of radiation from many angles at cancer. Wow, that was a painful few days for me and the family. I have to go under Segmental resection surgery to remove a larger portion of my lung, but not an entire lobe. As of now, I was sent home for a few months to see if the treatment work for the better but I have well deep in my mind that the lord has the best option for and my family when the times come. This blog article was written by my youngest daughter Wendy at my request to tell a little bit of my story so that others like me come forward and get tested for mesothelioma and asbestos. Don’t just accept the tragic situation search for help many law firms will assist you.
I will continue to write more about my progress shortly, thank you for taking the time to read a small chapter of my life.
