For Her

When my buddy called and told me that his dad passed on this morning, I was both sad and helpless.

I felt sad because I am thousand miles away from my buddy. I felt helpless because there was nothing I could do to help his dad even though I came to know about his disease two years ago.

Two years ago, when my buddy told me that his dad suffered from Mesothelioma, I looked blank. I didn’t know what Mesothelioma was.

Mesothelioma, caused by exposure to asbestos, is a form of cancer that develops in the tissues of cells that line the lungs, heart and stomach.

It is a very aggressive form of cancer, and one of the reasons that it has such a low survival rate is because it is not typically diagnosed until the disease is fairly advanced.