Am i likely to get sick?
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I apologize as i will see a doctor, but im curious if anyone can offer any comfort or words of wisdom from working the industry. NJ usa. Im 37 years old male, good health, non-smoker tho i did smoke 1 cigarette maybe a day arpund the time, and regularly smoked ciggarrets for 6 months 1 year after my exposure, and i smoked 1 or 2 here and there for a few years in my 20s.
When i was 16, i broke up this very thin extremely tough tile in a basement with a pickaxe -like hammer, which most likely to be asbestos.
I was in the dust cloud for at least 4 hours, some of the dust was concrete because i was chipping the floor as it was so tough.
I cant confirm it was, but all my research and description tells me it was, and my grandpa suspected it was so he had it boarded up, but he passed so i didnt find that out till later.
It looked exactly like this tile...
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Edited: i forgot to mention... guess where i grew up? :')
But i didnt see anydust or anything arpund as the big cleanup was started 2 years before i was born... but... my grandpa wprked at johns manville for 25 years, but i dont know if he worked onbthw upper (wet) floor, where they looked down over the dusty people below.
As far as i could tell our house was not clean, but not dusty. I only lived there a few years tho, and after that for 10 years i visited on weekends. I moved a town or 2 over.. which is also considered high disease rate.
He got a asbestosis but wasnt that bad early 1990s, but he died of emphesyma at 70 he was a smoker, so unfortunately still outside the latency period of mesothelioma.