Navy Veteran Discusses His Asbestos Exposure
Navy veteran, John Conway, shares his story of serving, recalling extensive asbestos exposure while working in boiler rooms during his deployments. Later diagnosed with mesothelioma, he and his family turned to Asbestos.com for guidance and support.
This is John Paul Jones. She's a Ford Sherman class destroyer. I went to Vietnam on her. And this is a picture of the USS Wasp. We went to the Cuban crisis on this ship, picked up the Mercury capsule, the Gemini capsule, and I believe two of the Apollo missions. I had a lot of fun. Went around the world three times. I worked in the boiler shop and consequently working in the boiler shop you work on the boilers on all the ships in Norfolk, Virginia. You go aboard a lot of the World War II class ships, which had a lot of the bestest. The WASP was just filled with them. And one morning they were taking all the insulation off all the steam pipes and it looked like it was snowing down there. It was just everywhere. That's my suspicions how I got contaminated with the asbestos. We got the news that I'd had the misathemioma. I was devastated. The first month, I think I cried my eyes out every day of the week. Every day. And I thought, It's not easy. Initially when it was first thought that he might have it, I started going into different websites and asbestos dot com was one of them. We are looking forward to getting back to our original life. We're looking forward to getting better and getting back and going boating. We're very fortunate to know the whole team at Vessels dot com. We were in dire straits and they gave us hope. It'd be good to go back out fishing again. Certainly.
