Mother Of Three Dies Of Mesothelioma After Hugging Her Father When She Was A Child

Debbie Brewer, the mother-of-three who died of mesothelioma because
she hugged her father when she was a child.
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Debbie Brewer spent seven years fighting mesothelioma cancer after contracting the disease by frequently hugging his father as a child, reports Mail Online.

Her father, Philip Northmore, worked as a lagger scraping asbestos from pipes at the British Royal Navy’s dockyard in Davenport. Northmore himself died of asbestos-related lung illness in 2006, the same year that his daughter was diagnoses with the long-dormant illness.

Mail Online reports that Northmore would come home every day from the dockyard virtually covered by asbestos. Debbie would rush to her father to give him a welcome hug, unknowingly killing herself in the long run.

In 2007, Debbie was awarded a six-figure sum by the Ministry of Defence who operated the dockyard after the agency admitted liability.

Despite her harrowing condition, Brewer still made it a cause to actively campaign to raise awareness of lung cancer by asbestos.

Debbie passed away at St Luke’s Hospice in Plymouth, where a few days ago she regarded her admission as ‘a blip’.

Her husband David Brewer praised Debbie for her dedication “to making people aware of asbestos and how dangerous it is.”

Debbie was noted for giving “all of her time” for the cause and even went on “blogging even when she was” already hospitalized.

There are cases when mesothelioma symptoms won’t surface until after 40 years, just like the case of Doris, when her condition worsened and deteriorated only lately.