A Diary of a Mesowarrior living with Mesothelioma A week of Asbestos and Mesothelioma Awareness The Tide Could be Turning

 




I have been quiet on the blog scene as I have been fighting such pain in my arms. I have had a MRI that took 2 hours and it was fond I have compression on my nerves.

I have lost the use of my hand -Typing with one hand is weird. WE have been trying to sort out pain killers but they are so strong I feel drunk all day. We have settled on Amitriptyline now.

But good news I have signed up for the Nero Trial and that will soon start. Yes another trial.

https://clinicalresearch.uhs.nhs.uk/news/targeted-cancer-treatment-could-provide-new-hope-for-mesothelioma-patients


This week has been a mile stone in the Asbestos Awareness.

People are waking up to the fact that the I industrial asbestos contamination is over but the new wave of contamination from asbestos in our buildings is harming the younger generation now.

A Westminster Hall debate took place to discuss the removal of asbestos in workplaces across the UK. 

Ian Lavery noted how terrible asbestos-related cancer is, and Jeremy Corbyn urged the government to act fast, saying there is no reason for the UK to be an outer in the issue as it’s ‘not new’

https://www.politics.co.uk/parliament/none-of-this-is-new-says-jeremy-corbyn-as-he-urges-the-government-to-sort-out-the-uks-problem-with-asbestos/  


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tre1wacf87I  Jane Hunt MP


Watch the whole debate https://www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/bc46e8a9-6247-49d0-ac36-d8883c55eda6?fbclid=IwAR2r_PMyhUEdyZAhDx_3S1arWnddPyxdfRWZFJonxcWsMM4XuQQEqdmuuwo

The transcript version is here https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2023-04-19/debates/35AD7922-57BB-4501-835C-F7864128E12E/AsbestosInWorkplaces?fbclid=IwAR305l1T__Y6SSzTxKc-DzIi6724B7s0OVfAG5AdFl8mr-8dBhg6bJIDPHA


Sir Stephen Timms 
(East Ham) (Lab)

I, too, congratulate the hon. Member for Loughborough (Jane Hunt) on securing the debate and on her speech. As she said, the Work and Pensions Committee published a report on asbestos management on 30 March last year. Ministers unfortunately rejected our recommendations but, for reasons that we have heard today, the case for action looks even stronger now than it did then.

Our report opened with this point:

“Asbestos-related illness is one of the great workplace tragedies of modern times.”

Asbestos is still the biggest source of work-related fatalities in the UK, and the fact that we used brown asbestos for a long time, and used it very heavily—


I just wanted to have it all noted and filed away for future reference as we need to keep this in front of MP's we need answers.


It really has been a great week for awareness as this is the best interview I have seen for a long time. Raising Awareness to Mesothelioma


https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001l5kx

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