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A Fight for Life: Author Describes Family's Asbestos Tragedy

The future does not allow this for long. Edward begins to have a mysterious fluid buildup around his right lung.

Posted on : Fri, 03 Nov 2006 18:11:00 GMT | Author : AuthorHouse
News Category : PressRelease

WEST POINT, Ga., Nov. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Romantics will enjoy the love story and bittersweet conclusion of "A Story Worth Telling: An Asbestos Tragedy" (now available through AuthorHouse), a new book by Rebecca Albarado. However, the book is so much more. It is the shocking account of a man diagnosed with mesothelioma, cancer caused by asbestos exposure, at the age of 50.Edward Albarado is a healthy, happy man who is very content with this time in his life. He is in love with his wife, has a beautiful home in the country, is retired from the Navy and loves his present job. He has finally reached a comfortable financial status where it is not a struggle to pay his bills. He can actually enjoy some things in this world. He and his wife, Becky, enjoy their families, riding ATVs, making their home more comfortable, traveling and finding as many adventures as they can in this world. They laugh about being in their second childhood...(Read More)

Oklahoma mesothelioma victim files suit in Madison County

Stone claims the defendants included asbestos in their products when they knew asbestos fibers would have a highly deleterious effect on the health of people absorbing them

Monday, October 23, 2006

By Steve Gonzalez - Edwardsville Bureau

The estate of Randy Stone filed an asbestos suit against 30 defendant corporations in Madison County Circuit Court Oct. 20, claiming he was exposed to asbestos while employed as a laborer, pipe-maker, machinist and quality control manager from 1950-2005.

According to the complaint, Stone was a resident of Oklahoma. He worked in Illinois at some point in his career, but the suit does not specify when or where.

The estate is represented by Harold Stone, Randy's son. The suit claims his exposure to asbestos fibers was completely foreseeable and could or should have been anticipated by the defendants.

It also claims the defendants failed to exercise ordinary care and caution for Randy's safety by including asbestos in their products even though it was completely foreseeable that people working with and around asbestos would inhale, ingest or otherwise absorb great amounts of asbestos... (Read More)

EPA studying gravel pits near the Killdeer Mountains

"We'll come up with results from the EPA to try and determine the level, or any risk," said Scott Radig, director of the Health Department's division of waste management

KILLDEER (AP) - Environmental Protection Agency workers have been raking softball fields and parking lots containing gravel from an area near the Killdeer Mountains to test for erionite, a mineral similar to asbestos. The state Health Department collected samples last spring, and EPA sampling began this week.

"We'll come up with results from the EPA to try and determine the level, or any risk," said Scott Radig, director of the Health Department's division of waste management.

"The hope is for no high-level risk," Radig said. "I would be glad if it turned out to be worry over nothing."

Erionite was discovered in the Killdeer Mountains in the 1980s, and the state was considering mining it, Radig said. There were no known health risks then, he said.

State geologist Ed Murphy later found out about a study of a village in Turkey that found possible links to lung cancer and mesothelioma from high exposures of erionite, Radig said. Murphy contacted the state Health Department last spring to look into the matter further, he said... (Read More)

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