Mesothelioma lawyers
Every time I turn on the TV or the radio, it’s the same thing. A somber voice in a badly made commercial intones:
“Have you or someone you love been diagnosed with mesothelioma? Mesothelioma is one of the most deadly diseases known to man, and is completely preventable. Mesothelioma is caused by exposure to asbestos, and malignant mesothelioma kills thousands of Americans every year. If you have been exposed to asbestos and have mesothelioma, or think you might be at risk for developing mesothelioma, we can help. If one of your loved ones has mesothelioma, or has been in contact with asbestos and is now at risk for developing mesothelioma, we can help. Just call the law offices of [name] at [number] for your free mesothelioma risk guide. You may be eligible for large settlements.
I mean, seriously. They say “mesothelioma” about 800 times in the course of a 30-second commercial. In the television version, there’s nothing on the screen except for the word “mesothelioma”. And I see and hear these things every single day.
What happened? Did some group of lawyers win a big class action lawsuit against asbestos companies? Lawyers in cases like this tend to take upwards of 40 percent of any settlement they get against a company, so to justify all these scary commercials there must be some serious money involved mesothelioma lawsuits.
Is anyone else getting these things at all, or are all the mesothelioma lawyers focusing on Huntsville? And does that mean I might be at risk for developing mesothelioma? (That’s a joke. Everyone knows I’ll die falling off the mountain.) The strange thing is, none of the lawyers in all these mesothelioma commercials are in Alabama, so my guess is that these commercials are running everywhere, even though they look cheap and local.
So what’s the word? Are you being inundated with commercials by lawyers looking to get you a big mesothelioma settlement?
Friday morning, as I sat in line at the credit union to deposit my paycheck, I noticed that the extra important man in the car next to me was involved in an animated conversation on his cell phone. We pulled forward, a little at a time, as the lines in front of us moved. The credit union here is huge, and there’s most always about 30 people in line at the 6 drive-through windows.
We got to our drive-throughs at the same time, after about 10 minutes of waiting. I put my check and the deposit slip in the pneumatic tube and sent it off to the building some 100 feet away. And then I got a demonstration of just why it is that assholes on cell phones annoy me so much.
Despite all the signs, despite ten minutes of waiting, Mr. Important next to me waited until he was actually AT the drive through to fill out his deposit slip, talking on his phone the whole time. He finished, put the slip and a check into the carrier, and deposited it in the holder outside his car.
And turned all his attention back to his cell phone without pressing the button to whoosh the carrier to the teller.
I stared at him.
I looked at the carrier, just sitting there in the pneumatic whoosher thing waiting for him to hit the big “Send” button.
I looked back at the long line of people behind him.
I willed him to look at me, for I am a NICE GUY ™. When he did, I made a motion designed to indicated to him that he needed to pull himself away from the cell phone for a second and look at the whoosher thing just outside his window.
And the motherfucker pointedly looked away from me, talking the whole while.
So I waited for my deposit to get finished, and left without trying again. Though I do feel sorry for the people who were in line behind him, a small part of me hopes someone got out, hit the button for him, and then rammed his cell phone up his ass.
This morning, as I sat at my desk contemplating yet another weekend day of putting together jigsaws and watching Smallville, something occurred to me:
For the first time in three weeks, my shin didn’t hurt, no matter how I moved my foot around.
I think we all know what that means.
What’s the best way to see if I’m really healed? The steepest trail on the mountain, of course.
Note how clearly you can see here…
…as opposed to the higher elevations
Up at the top, it was downright foggy.
Five+ miles, at a slower than normal pace, and absolutely no shin splint pain. I think I may be healed, praise Jesus.
I apologize for not updating more often, but I’ve been working on my new memoir, A Million Little Fleeces. It’s about my heroic struggle—and the time I spent on the seedier side of the internet—to overcome my addiction to winning at internet poker. While it’s not factually correct, this memoir speaks truth to countless gullible people, so no will mind that I lied if I’m ever caught.
You may not be aware, but I published an excerpt from the memoir back in April of 2005.
Update: I’m selling some Thomas Kinkade jigsaw puzzles.
I’m in Massachusetts and - though we have many lawyers pushing many of the benefits of legal representation - I don’t recall seeing Mesothelioma. Of course, it may just be that I turn off my brain at those times - as I so often do for legal commercials because, let’s face it, would you really hire a lawyer through a commercial on TV?
But Dora, what if they could get you a large settlement!
Fred,that photo of the foggy trail is spooky. Like there might be a couple of fellers just around the bend just waiting for a purty man such as yourself to come along. Thanks goodness you carry a gun.
Anymore baby turtle/tortoise sightings?
I just LOVE those gorgeous babies.
Take care,D.
I live in eastern PA, and we have those mesothelioma, mesothelioma, mesothelioma, mesothelioma ads too. How about a class action suit against annoying lawyer commercials?
I’m pretty sure I’ve seen those ads here in St Louis, but not positive. Gawd bless my Tivo!
Hmmm…….I haven’t seen that one since the first of thr year, must have run dry for mesothelioma cases in South Florida. I kinda got sick of it quick and hit mute everytime it ran.
Talking about your shin splint- I’m glad you are doing better, but if they keep coming back try kangoojumps.com for something you can use that is easy on your lower body.
My father-in-law died of mesothelimo about ten years ago and it was an individual lawsuit. I haven’t explored it much further than what my mother-in-law had to go through, so perhaps there are class action suits as well. The companies who have been sued are the ones who had the opportunity to be educated of what being exposed to asbestos does to a person and chose to continue to use the product, keeping their employees in ignorance. And the manufactuers who continued to sell it. It is an awful way to die. Sometimes it takes years for a person who has been infected to show symptoms which is why lawsuits are still happening. That and depending on how long the companies still used asbestos before they got caught. The various companies insurance companies began to run out of money due to the first people who sued got huge amounts of money in a reasonable amount of time but so many people began to fall ill and die, it took/takes years and years to go through the process. And yes, the attornies definitely get 40% along with any expenses racked up in the years of the process. The attornies representing the insurance companies are black souled jackasses. I know they have a job to do but it still pisses me off to this day what they put my mother-in-law through. Most of the people who have died have been husbands that were/are close to retirement age and my father-in-law was desperate to ensure his wife would be taken care of before he died. The people deserve every cent for their suffering. My father-in-law’s lungs became encased in crystalized matter and as time progressed, the tube the doctors would insert into his lungs to drain out water would be more difficult in accomplishing to the point of it being impossible. It was a long, slow, painful suffocating drowning death. Those who made the decision to ignore the danger of asbestos should absolutely spend the rest of their lives paying. Then there are the children of these people who died from this. They were the ones who ran to their father at the end of his workday and threw their little arms around their dad, pressing their faces against the lingering powder covering work clothing. So yeah, I see this going on for a very long time. My husband is 49 so when he was a teenager, car crazy, changing brake pads, always fiddling with his friend’s cars because it was fun, he was exposed every single time. I do see the same commercials you see frequently, too.
Here is lower Michigan not only do we get the commercials on TV but there is a big old billboard advertising a lawyer that specializes in mesothelioma!
The mesothelioma commercials are here too. Or maybe not *here* as such–I’m in Ohio but I have satellite TV and no local channels, so the network stations I get are from New York and Los Angeles.
Yeah we’ve got the mesothelioma lawyer commercials in the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area in NC too.
We also have a widely known car salesman here named Fred Anders0n. So your name is on the back of a LOT of people’s cars here.
Why don’t you have direct deposit?
I’m in Cincinnati. Yes, our local channels show the Mesothelioma commercials a lot, too.
We have those mesothelioma ads here in NY, too.
We have those damn mesothelioma ads here in Jacksonville, too.
We have mesothelioma ads in Dallas, TX - usually during the daytime, or late night.
We have the ads here in SW Wa.
As for cell phone jerk, you should have pulled in front of him, gotten out, and pushed the button yourself. Wonder what he would’ve done? : )
I hate going to the bank. Direct Deposit is the answer! In fact my bank won’t give you free checking unless you have it. And they transfer the money into my account during the night before payday so it’s already in my available balance before the rest even see their paychecks
Mesothelioma ads air on TV and radio in Phoenix, Arizona.
When I lived in Washington State, I saw those ads all the time. I haven’t seen any here in the UK, but then I’ve never seen ANY sort of legal ad on television here. Constant ads, however, to Bazooka that Veruca!
Yup! We have those ads in Hartford,Ct too.
Minnesota’s got mesothelioma too. Apparently, mesothelioma is USA-wide. There’s not stop to where mesothelioma will strike next. Mesothelioma is everywhere!
My father died from mesothlioma in 2001. He was the consummate handyman and had worked with asbestos since his tour with the navy during WWII. While cleaning out his workshop after his death we found a cardboard tube, capped at both ends and neatly marked “ASBESTOS”. It took nearly 50 years for him to develop this disease. His illness was awful, but mercifully short. My father was a great man - engineer, inventor, carpenter, sailor. He lived life joyfully and was never idle. Those stupid ads only bring back bad memories of his illness and death. Shit happens. You live the best way you can and then you die.
Indiana has those commercials all the time as well. You are not alone in your annoyance……
Yep, ads here in the Chicago area.. both TV and newspaper print ads almost daily. They bother me MUCH less than the nasal, droning lawyer hawking his ‘FREE 24hr BANKRUPTCY INFO TAPES’… yeesh.
Don’t recall ever hearing of mesothelioma until I saw it on your site today…
Maybe we don’t have asbestos in Mount Airy, MD.
We get those mesothelioma ads here in Oklahoma. At least on Dish Network stations. My guess is that those lawsuits must be reasonably profitable cases nowadays for those attorneys. If you do a quick search for mesothelioma, a large percentage of the hits are attorneys.
Hey, that’s good news about your shin splints! Mine took several months to totally heal up.
We have that same ad in Reno NV. We are on Dish Network too.
Mesothelioma lawyer ads all the time here in Los Angeles. Glad you got to go for a walk/hike.
Oh yeah. We’ve got the mesothelioma commercials in Wisconsin. They’re so fantastic. Really high production values. You know.
Yep, got those same ads here in north Louisiana. No doubt about how to pronounce that word. I think assholes on cell phones are everywhere……
Same ads here in Utah, too.
Black souled jackass here. I know more about meso and asbestos than you really would want to hear about, as I did asbestos defense litigation for many years. The ads run everywhere, with the majority of suits filed in liberal jurisdictions, mostly in Madison County, IL (by St. Louis), TX, LA, MS, and the west coast. The attorneys who advertise refer cases to attorneys in these jurisdictions. I could go on, but will just say that, yes, meso is a horrible disease with no cure and very little treatment and usually a quick death after diagnosis. I have nothing but pity for the victims and their families. With regard to the “asbestos” companies, there are certainly many that did horrible things, knowingly endangering and killing people for profits. But there are also many, many companies who used asbestos (a naturally occurring mineral which is in the air almost everywhere, by the way) in their products and had no idea of the danger. Many of these companies are now bankrupt as a result of these suits, and many more will be. And, before all of the victims can recover for their losses, there may be no more money left. Like I said, more than you probably wanted to know!
speaking as a katrina refugee… we had them in southern mississississippi and we have them in the oh/ky/in bermuda triangle..
while i do feel for those who suffer from it.. i think they suffer from lawyers more…
Same mesothelioma commercials here in Arkansas.
Fred - your shipping costs on your puzzles seems kinda lofty.
Just thought you might like to know.
Sharon,
What can I say? It’s what eBay calculated based on the weight of the box and the shipping options. You guys should know by now I’m not going to rip anyone off.
next thing you kow, wilford brimley will be advertising mesothelioma supplies covered by medicare and delivered right to your door.
Fred - I know you’d never rip us off, I guess the puzzles must be heavier than I thought!
Sharon