Friday, July 06, 2007
Asbestos victim joins call for ban on the fiber that's killing her - Seattle P-I
Judy Clauson knows that a fast-killing cancer caused by exposure to asbestos has left her with only a short while to live. She says her remaining days are precious. But Friday, the 44-year-old mother of two from Aberdeen plans to join Sen. Patty Murray in Seattle to support the need for laws to ban the use of asbestos in this country.
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"The doctors couldn't believe I had mesothelioma. They said I was too young and I never worked with asbestos. They treated me for all sorts of problems, but when my lungs filled with fluid, they finally figured it out," Clauson said.
Mesothelioma normally takes 20 or more years for symptoms to develop, and she said her doctors finally determined that her exposure to asbestos was from her former husband who worked at a metal foundry in Hoquiam.
"He would come home every day covered head to toe in heavy black dust, and I would wash his work clothes. We didn't know the dust contained asbestos. We had no clue," she said. ...
Judy Clauson knows that a fast-killing cancer caused by exposure to asbestos has left her with only a short while to live. She says her remaining days are precious. But Friday, the 44-year-old mother of two from Aberdeen plans to join Sen. Patty Murray in Seattle to support the need for laws to ban the use of asbestos in this country.
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"The doctors couldn't believe I had mesothelioma. They said I was too young and I never worked with asbestos. They treated me for all sorts of problems, but when my lungs filled with fluid, they finally figured it out," Clauson said.
Mesothelioma normally takes 20 or more years for symptoms to develop, and she said her doctors finally determined that her exposure to asbestos was from her former husband who worked at a metal foundry in Hoquiam.
"He would come home every day covered head to toe in heavy black dust, and I would wash his work clothes. We didn't know the dust contained asbestos. We had no clue," she said. ...
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