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Great and insightful book into an industry with a dark past. I work in the abatement industry and found this book fascinating.
Rating: 5 / 5

I have loaned this audio book out so many times that I’ve purchased a second copy! It covers all the bases, very personal stories of real families and real insight to big business meetings and coverups. It’s about profit over loss of human life, it’s about deception and how far it goes up the ‘chain’. It is very well written, a startling account of what you don’t know WILL hurt you. It makes you wonder how many other times this happens and what products we are using now that will take a death toll in the future.
Rating: 5 / 5

I am sorry but I would like to use this forum not only to say this was a great study but also to relate my experience as to why I think that. I had severe asbestos exposure 28 years ago. The fact it was asbestos was hidden from me. I have all the symptons. When I asked my company a gigantic petro chemical company about asbestos they banned me from my plant I worked at for 29 years. I have to be escorted now if I go there. I cannot get a DR at my A_tna HMO to even say the word asbestos let alone consider it in a diagnosis. I cannot go to another Dr without my current Drs reccomendation either or I pay for everything myself. SO my selfish view and a bit of my history as to an outlook or perception I have developed. This is a narrative so unless highy interested or involved with asbestos you won’t want to read.

You know one of the reasons and circumstances I moved to Houston was in 1978 my wife was having terrible stomach pains. You know she went to a Dr. in Beaumont and that Dr. told her she had endodometriosis, would never have children and as a result he felt like he needed to do a histerectomy on my wife immediately. Well my wife Marilyn was rightfully emotionally and mentally destroyed. Being desparate of sorts I read up on that scenario a bit and actually read of cases were young Drs would do histerectomies to enhance their growing business and on occassion fetuses could be found in the garbage can or dumptser in the back. Pretty morbid and the reality was I didn’t even consider that to be the case here, however it was enough for me to think maybe we needed another opinion.

So we stepped back a minute and caught our collective breathe and thought; “you know this just doesn”t “feel right” to either of us. To quick and to certain I guess. It made no sense at all. So we ended up comming over to Houston to the Womens Clinic on Fanin Street. I’m not sure its even there anymore. Anyway Marilyn got checked and we found out she was pregnant and that is my daughter today who eventually had my grandson. Now down the road we had a son David. So events could have been very different had we not called a timeout and jumped ahead strictly on “faith in a profession”.

So later on that was one of the reasons why we decided to just get away from the Beaumont area. You know trust is such an important factor in everything we do. I’m sure its that way with you guys and everyone for that matter. Well once in Houston I had like multiple jobs at any given time to keep us going. One night I left an office at 10pm and a young adult came up from behind, stuck a gun in my head and demanded my wallett. Well I told him he picked a bad night to rob me as I only had 4 dollars. Well he commenced to get irate and pulled the hammer back on his pistol, stuck it on my forhead and said; ” if that was true he was gonna blow my f__kin head off”. I have no idea why he didn’t shoot me that night. Maybe he already had his quota. I’ll never know.

However at that time I really thought he was going to kill me and actually I was so sure of that this amazing calm came over me and it was alright. I could deal with that because even though I was in the wrong place at the wrong time at least it was a legitimate holdup and the guy really needed money. Kinda like war I guess. I thought I would have got down on my hands and knees and begged him not to shoot. Ultra strange feeling.

So I went home and called the police and to my utter surprise they just didn’t care. They had better things to do and didn’t even want a description or a statement from me. I mean I was so confused and just wondered to myself where is our help, our line of defense, our good feeling that people watched out over other well meaning people. SO that was my intro to Houston.

Strange comparisons I know but like I said getting held up and threatened and robbed by a young adult needing money and in a hopeless situation to me was not as bad as the police even refusing to talk to me. You know kinda sorta the same as a lot of things we hear in the news nowadays . SO we had a Dr in Beaumont that would have knowingly killed a fetus to make some extra bucks on an unnecessary historectomy and then I saw the police totally disregard an armed robbery. They could have at least sent a squad car over there I thought.

Now on the other hand I saw a young, probably hopeless young adult rob someone, me. Although sure I think he was wrong, but who in reality was the most wrong? Was it the young man trying to survive or the well educated? On the other hand was it well paid, professionals, from good families, who had nice homes, nice cars, etc etc who look the other way and then very possibly let things happen like that and asbestos disease happen over and over and over again. . Also and apparently strictly out of convienence or greed they make no attempt to make a bad situation right. They obviously even would have sacrificed a somewhat well intentioned person to fit their own needs. I see it everyday nowadays. It leaves a really bad taste in my mouth and presents a bleak future for everyone I think. Back then it was a rarity I believe. So who’s really the worst? You guys tell me.

Rating: 5 / 5

My husband was diagnosed with Mesothelioma when he was 54. He was a healthy, active, white collar worker. He died five months after the first small sign of discomfort. You see, he had been exposed to asbestos on summer jobs between high school and college working with ceiling tiles, welding equipment, plumbing insulation, etc. He was also exposed to it on board an army transport ship from the asbestos-wrapped boilers. He was exposed in homes he purchased through the years and worked a little here or there to fix it up or make small repairs. He was never warned that anything contained asbestos. I’ve learned since that the slightest exposure can kill those whose dna is susceptible (15% of us). The rest of us are all susceptible to Asbestosis, the scarring of the lungs from constant exposure which depletes your oxygen until you don’t have the strength to move about. This book reads like my favorite John Grisham novels, but it’s frightening to learn what people can do to each other in the name of greed, fear, political pressure, etc. What happened in Libby has affected us all because they shipped out their products to our areas for use in our homes, schools, etc. By the time you finish reading this book, you no doubt will have the street smarts to help protect yourself from this and other types of exposures that can kill you or take away the quality of your life — If you haven’t been exposed already! It can take 10-50 years to get the first symptom. You also might make the rightful connection that your vote for representatives and presidents can choose people that support corporate profits without regard to human life in the name of the economy or in order to fill their own wallets from money they get from those corporate lobbiests. You won’t be able to put this book down!
Rating: 5 / 5