In this TEDx Talks video, Linda Reinstein talks about her husband’s journey with pleural mesothelioma and what spurred her into becoming an activist and advocate for the disease.
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Linda’s husband, Alan, went to doctors with two symptoms: a persistent cough and unexplained weight loss. He was finally diagnosed with mesothelioma in 2003 after undergoing nine months of various tests. A year later, Linda founded the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) where she’s still an executive director. The foundation helps people who are suffering from asbestos-related diseases such as mesothelioma and asbestosis.
Linda explains that she got the idea to start the foundation from her 11-year-old daughter, who said that she wanted to go to Washington to speak to her Senators about how difficult it was watching her father suffer from mesothelioma.
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