My part 2

The questions is 'what do I do with my second chance'? Well so far I've gone back to school to study to be a Physician Assistant, and after meeting Mike and putting our heads together - I've put my efforts to into raising awareness and money to fight mesothelomia.
Like most people before taking this on, my knowledge of this disease was that it was something that was mainly connected with miners. But like most things in life, as soon as you think your fairly safe from something - it usually bites you in the ass.
Quite simply, mesothelomia stands a chance of bitting us because asbestos exposure causes mesothelomia. Hundreds of tons of it was pulverized and released when those towers came down. Mesothelomia also has the distinction of being very hard to detect in its early stages, and by the time it is detectable - your done.
So being the student I am I added it all up: thousands of people + exposure to lots of asbestos + a disease that's very hard to pick up and is extremly lethal = we need to do something.
Next equation I plotted out was: the need for better ways of detecting this disease earlier + more treatment options for patients in all stages of the disease = research and development.
Final formula: raising awareness + raising money + non profit foundation designated to erradicate mesothelomia = the resources needed to mount a meaningfull attack on something deadly BEFORE its too late.

Joe