Were some of the last words a young man would speak. His mother had to carry him to his bed where he slowly suffocated to death.
Silicosis is no fucking joke. I watched my father die to fibrosis, which is very similar. He went from an energetic and active retiree to a chair bound and weak man in a matter of weeks. He lived the rest of his life barely able to walk from his car to the scooters to go grocery shopping. Doing so much as turning a valve to shut off the water to his sprinklers would have taken him an hour or more, and he wouldn’t have been able to do much else that day.
He lived for 2 of the 5 years he thought he had fighting for every single breath. All day. Every day.
The worst workplace disaster in US history was silicosis.
Were some of the last words a young man would speak. His mother had to carry him to his bed where he slowly suffocated to death.
Silicosis is no fucking joke. I watched my father die to fibrosis, which is very similar. He went from an energetic and active retiree to a chair bound and weak man in a matter of weeks. He lived the rest of his life barely able to walk from his car to the scooters to go grocery shopping. Doing so much as turning a valve to shut off the water to his sprinklers would have taken him an hour or more, and he wouldn’t have been able to do much else that day.
He lived for 2 of the 5 years he thought he had fighting for every single breath. All day. Every day.