jedinat
04-11-17, 21:23
I worked in a dental lab for about 5 years. I did quite a bit of sandblasting, and the sandblasting cabinets were often shit with the vacuum not working well. We only had crappy surgical masks for protection and didn't wear them if we weren't directly using the sandblasting machine (still in the room).
And I did quite a bit of divesting which generates the silica dust. The last year of my job I wore a surgical mask the whole day due to this anxiety, and I'm wondering if that just made things worse causing me to take deeper breathes with fine particulate making it through the mask.
After reading about crap like silicosis and other things I've developed huge health anxiety that spills over into worrying about a lot of things.
Now I work an office job and just the office being next to a freeway bothers me due to the lung anxiety.
Today I made the mistake of reading up more on silicosis and found out the symptoms can show up a decade or two later. I'm worried in 10 years I'll start do die from lung issues.
P.S.
I have a cat and the litter box outside my room causes me anxiety because I know the clay litter dust contains silica. The popcorn ceiling causes me anxiety because it (might) have asbestos however inert. But the worst is those freaking 5 years in a crappy job that could turn out to have ruined my later life.
And I did quite a bit of divesting which generates the silica dust. The last year of my job I wore a surgical mask the whole day due to this anxiety, and I'm wondering if that just made things worse causing me to take deeper breathes with fine particulate making it through the mask.
After reading about crap like silicosis and other things I've developed huge health anxiety that spills over into worrying about a lot of things.
Now I work an office job and just the office being next to a freeway bothers me due to the lung anxiety.
Today I made the mistake of reading up more on silicosis and found out the symptoms can show up a decade or two later. I'm worried in 10 years I'll start do die from lung issues.
P.S.
I have a cat and the litter box outside my room causes me anxiety because I know the clay litter dust contains silica. The popcorn ceiling causes me anxiety because it (might) have asbestos however inert. But the worst is those freaking 5 years in a crappy job that could turn out to have ruined my later life.