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Roger Keegan, a popular family man from Reddings Avenue, Bushey, passed away yesterday after exposure to asbestos dust for years. He was 64.
Coroner Edward Thomas ruled Roger Keegan had expired due to an industrial disease caused from exposure to asbestos.
It was in the summer of 2004 that Mr keegan was diagnosed with a cancer called Mesothelioma. He was a very fit and healthy man with a hardy constitution and a father of two kids. He has worked for more than 30 years as an air conditioning engineer.
"He was a very fit and healthy man, that is why this is so hard to take. He didn't smoke and didn't really drink either but we knew he'd been exposed to asbestos," said Pauline, his widow.
She said that they first knew he was ill when he started getting short of breath. She remembered her husband had to continuously work on asbestos when he was in job.
"In older days it asbestos was used all the time. He could remember laggers' mixing up huge dust bins of asbestos - nobody knew it was dangerous then. But Roger kept going right to the end," she said.
She told that Roger gave up work for about two weeks as per the advise of health specialists. However, he could not stay home without job for long time.
"He told his oncologist he would go mad if he stayed at home any longer and went back to the job," she said.
Asbestos is a mortal material, exposure to which can cause deadly diseases like asbestosis, mesothelioma etc.
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