Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
It?s a silent killer. A ticking time bomb in your chest that hides its timer and doesn?t even let you hear the ticking as it winds down.
Until, one day, you might get a little short of breath while walking up a hill. You might feel a little bit tired all the time, but dismiss it as a side effect of getting older.
Except that?s not what happened.
Take Mavis Nye, who lives in Kent.
For just six months, between 45 and 50 years ago, she washed the overalls her husband wore when he went to work at the dockyard in Chatham.
Nothing wrong with that. It was the 60s, and that?s what happened. But the trouble was his overalls were covered with asbestos fibres, and as Mavis washed them, she breathed them in ? invisible fibres that are so small they travel straight down into the lungs. And there they wait, silent killers, waiting to strike.
http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/bu...-is-a-time-bomb-and-it-s-all-around-1-5054782
Until, one day, you might get a little short of breath while walking up a hill. You might feel a little bit tired all the time, but dismiss it as a side effect of getting older.
Except that?s not what happened.
Take Mavis Nye, who lives in Kent.
For just six months, between 45 and 50 years ago, she washed the overalls her husband wore when he went to work at the dockyard in Chatham.
Nothing wrong with that. It was the 60s, and that?s what happened. But the trouble was his overalls were covered with asbestos fibres, and as Mavis washed them, she breathed them in ? invisible fibres that are so small they travel straight down into the lungs. And there they wait, silent killers, waiting to strike.
http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/bu...-is-a-time-bomb-and-it-s-all-around-1-5054782