Mesothelioma Lawsuit
Four years ago he was given four months of life for cancer of the pleura with asbestos. “I do not want to die like that. I wanted to break the statistics, “explains
BEASAIN. DV. Angela is happy because he is still alive, against all odds. Suffering from pleural mesothelioma, a cancer of the membrane that surrounds the lungs and causes only asbestos. They gave him three or four months, but that four years ago. “Four years living with my cancer,” celebrated with a smile. Oncologist told her: “I do not want to die. I want to break the statistics. ” “And you’re getting,” he congratulates the doctor every time he sees.
Now take a life “almost normal, with no spills. Beautiful “, is glad. Has dropped from 52 kilos to 39, “but with energy.” Tells his story in the living room of her house with her husband Beasain Felix and affectionate look at the photographs of his three daughters. A book rests on the table. Versa, as the subtitle on the power of the mind and spirit in overcoming serious illness, while the title proclaims that Healing is a journey. Like life.
The Angela, surnamed Rodriguez, Valladolid began almost 65 years and Beasain was a teenager. Between June 1964 and September 1967 Oxivol worked for the company, now defunct, in the town of Goierri. Manufactured car batteries and she was responsible for sealing your top lid with a string of asbestos that had to untwist by hand. I saw white dust given off. They wore no mask. If your health was affected by the material then inhaled, she did not realize.
He left the company to marry Félix Velázquez and did not work outside the home. Asbestos was still inside her body, but she did not know. Can not remember most health disorder in all that time the spring asthenia.
Until March 2005, when he began to breathe wrong and found a leak in the left lung. They attributed this to pressure from the spleen and the organ removed, but the spill was over and she felt “very muffled.” They put a drain and flowed “gallons” of fluid in your lungs. Testing began and arose the suspicion of mesothelioma.
On 27 June of that year he opened the back and confirmed the fatal cancer. The doctors met Felix and three daughters and told them that life expectancy gave Angela. “Then I learned that my life would be very short” with a smile that impresses, “because I always wanted to know the truth and so I asked my family.”
Her youngest daughter, Maitane, is a nurse and helped him take the news “with great peace of mind. I said: ‘We are in a way in which we will find very difficult, right?’. And she answered: ‘If it is very difficult, we have no choice but to face it.’ ”
We scheduled six cycles of chemotherapy, but for mesothelioma is palliative, not curative. I had to try something else. A niece whose son had cancer macrobiotic diet recommended under the guidance of biologist Elena Corrales, and continues ever since. It is based on vegetables, cereals and vegetables, always farming, since most are treated with pesticide use. Do not eat food of animal origin but algae as a supplement.
Attributed to diet is not falling hair or have nausea from chemotherapy. Nor suffered pain. After drug treatment, they did a scan. The tumor “could hardly see the referral had been almost total.”
Then he spent two years controlled by medical oncologists but not until half a year and a new stroke again stole the air and called “Do not know how many” drains. The crisis lasted four months and another six scheduled chemotherapy, but his body does not endure. He suffered from vomiting, choking and “an unbearable heat inside.”
After the failure of chemotherapy, there was no treatment for it in Oncology. They decided to pass it on to palliative care, but she refused. “I do not want to die, I had to look to see if there was more to me.” He referred to a homeopath, recommended by another niece that he treated her breast cancer, but has not given up on traditional medicine, which considers compatible with your diet and homeopathy. “In conventional medicine there was nothing for me and I wanted to live,” he insists.
Nevertheless, in January suffered another crisis, and after many drains you included in the home care program, which recommends “because everyone is working great.” A month ago, I installed a catheter that could drain itself, but the device first caused him “enormous pain impossible to bear. I think my body would reject it. All people are equal and not everyone reacts differently to each treatment. ” Since being removed, has not returned to suffer pain.
Angela is very clear that “the support of family and people in the street and one’s mental work do much. The attitude should be positive. If you let you fold down the disease, do not go forward. And as a believer, I think that someone is giving me strength to overcome this stage of life so hard. ” This survivor wants to encourage all those affected by mesothelioma: “Do not despair, because with a positive attitude can live.” She shows every day.
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