Cancer clusters are terrifying. Definitely something to look into. They say asbestos disease will be around for at least another 100 years as there is still asbestos around in the form of housing materials. Dad's was occupational - he was a draftsman and he liked to be the one getting outdoors on building sites and measuring up. Often, buildings in states of demolition or with asbestos being cut etc. Awful way to go. And that was after suffering a cancer from.chemicals from his tour in Vietnam. War and industry. Couldn't make you sadder and madder, right? The little people cop the horror. It was lucky that both don't show up til later in life so he had a full, good life til around 69 years old. Immunotherapy cured him off the war cancer and a year later mesothelioma swept in.

There's been absolutely no inkling of clusters near us, we would have known, so we didn't even factor that in. I think Australia might be a little better off in that regard, largely anyway.

I hear you on the ring tone PTSD. It's so anxiety inducing. I could never play poker or be a financial trader, I'd fair have a heart attack.

Still, don't you think that if you didn't have the stress, you wouldn't feel as content/happy in the end? Like we need the hardship to appreciate the end result. Phew.

Life is indeed strange. He would have been very happy for us, I know. I'm eternally grateful to both him and Mum.