Dear diary, today was a shiny and beautiful day, but a strange thing happened when my teeth started to fall and my jaw developed a painful abscess after two years of working in the Radium factory. When I worked in a Radium factory, where we paint dials of clocks and watches by paintbrushes that eventually, lose their shape, and so our manager asked us to paint with our lips. Unfortunately, no one knew the dangerous of Radium except the owner of the U.S. Corporation and also scientists who were familiar with effects of Radium. I was so worried so I went to the doctor, he said that my problem was caused by a former occupation. Sadly, the owners did not admit of committing a crime. They were saying that my problem have to do with phospho …show more content…
didn't except to give us money to pay some of the medical expenses that was paying for. I can't imagine how they did that after I've been working for them for many years, they didn't inform us about the dangerousness of Radium and left us without safety tools that we can protect ourselves with. I decided to sue U.S. Radium but it took me two years to find a lawyer to take my case, I was so happy that my rights will come back and that I found a lawyer to help me do that. I felt bad when they exhumed one of my friends bodies to take an autopsy of her bones to confirm her cause of death. Days after days, I was so tired, I was losing my teeth dramatically and I couldn't set properly without the using of a back brace, much less walk, my situation was getting worse. The day the court came, I was so exhausted that I couldn't raise my hand to talk. I was dying. Every night, I can't sleep for the pains , I can't keep my little home to my kids to grow up in because I had to pay for the medical expenses . Whenever I read a newspaper, my news an pictures are always there, that hurt me because they keep mentioning that I will die, it's not like I don't know, but the idea of having something that keep reminding you of your fate hurts do