Another reason she was concerned is because of the irregular latency period we had here. Under normal conditions, or should I say in normal parts of the country, the latency period of mesothelioma was about 20 to 50 years. After your initial exposure to asbestos, or whatever the cause was, you still had 20 to 50 years before symptoms even began appearing.

Not here. In Mesothelioma Lawyers, the latency period could be much, much shorter. It's hard to know exactly how short, since we don't know what causes it, and therefore we can't measure the time from cause to symptoms. But for a perfectly healthy person without a trace of mesothelioma in their body, we suspected they could be exposed today, and be dead within a year.

Even worse, the latency period seemed to be shortening at an increasing rate. Our town was noticeably sicker today than it was a year ago, and five years ago was a paradise by comparison. Some people would still have the traditional 20 to 50 years without symptoms, but no one could count on that. The bottom line was that we didn't know how you got sick, and once you got sick, you didn't know how much time you had.

That's why I never wanted to let Milli worry about me. "I'm fine, and my SMRP levels are just peachy," I said with a smile. She smiled back at me, knowing that I obviously had no idea what my SMRP levels were at this very moment, but she appreciated my effort.

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