The family of Mae Moore, a California resident who died at age 88 in 2021, sued the company the same year, claiming J&J’s talc baby powder products contained asbestos fibers that caused her rare cancer. The jury late on Monday ordered J&J to pay $16 million in compensatory damages and $950 million in punitive damages, according to court filings.
I had a pleurodesis (that’s where your lung collapses several times so they glue it to your ribcage with scar tissue to keep it upright) and they offered me a choice of talc, where they blow in the talc powder to create the scar tissue, or mechanical, where they stick a spiked rod in and abrade you from the inside out.
Despite how unpleasant the latter sounded, my surgeon all but insisted I not go talc, he said I would thank him later.
Oh, god I do.
Our medical technology these days is miraculous in many ways. Then there are knee replacements and this body horror tale.
It gets worse but the moral is, don’t collapse your lung. I wish someone had told me.
You did this on purpose?
And mostly how not to ! I got a new fear and no way to know how to prevent it !