In November 2008, at a film festival in Geneva on the theme of cancer, Linda Reinstein introduced her film about Alan and mesothelioma. It was the month my companion, Adon, was told he would die from mesothelioma.
Linda Reinstein had never heard the word before.
So when the doctor said he suspected her husband had cancer, a specific kind known as mesothelioma, she asked him to write it on her tear-soaked tissue. Alan Reinstein had just come out of an invasive surgery to find out what was causing the marathon runner to have a persistent cough and why a chest X-ray had shown excess fluid around his lungs.
“It’s the good kind of cancer, the treatable kind though, right?” Reinstein remembers asking the doctor that day in 2003. June 16, to be exact.
“You just don’t forget those dates,” she said during a recent phone interview with The Hill from her home in California.
The doctor said he could treat Alan but that mesothelioma is incurable.
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Advocate against asbestos
by Lydia Wheeler, The Hill, 12 January 2016Linda Reinstein had never heard the word before.
So when the doctor said he suspected her husband had cancer, a specific kind known as mesothelioma, she asked him to write it on her tear-soaked tissue. Alan Reinstein had just come out of an invasive surgery to find out what was causing the marathon runner to have a persistent cough and why a chest X-ray had shown excess fluid around his lungs.
“It’s the good kind of cancer, the treatable kind though, right?” Reinstein remembers asking the doctor that day in 2003. June 16, to be exact.
“You just don’t forget those dates,” she said during a recent phone interview with The Hill from her home in California.
The doctor said he could treat Alan but that mesothelioma is incurable.