I believe I will survive
When doctors first diagnosed me with mesothelioma asbestos lung cancer, my world came crumbling apart. By profession, I was a builder, yet I never expected that the job I loved would be my own poison. All I wanted to do was be alone with my misery, which wasn’t long as the doctors gave me about a year to live.
My wife came home one day with “Surviving mesothelioma: A Patient’s Guide.” She blackmailed me into reading it, and I am quite thankful that she had. The book was written by a survivor of mesothelioma cancer whose mesothelioma prognosis was bleaker than mine.
Paul Kraus and his family beat mesothelioma by trying everything modern medicine could ever give to solve this problem. I guess I can say I was inspired by this man, and knowing that he’s still alive 12 years after his diagnosis, gave me the hope to believe that I too would pull through.
I have been trying out most of the treatments in the book, ranging from chemotherapy through to clinical trials and alternative therapies. I am still trying to find something that would suit me, yet I have no intentions of giving up, because I know I can survive this, for my sake as well as my family’s.