Thank you so much xx 

I know I just hope I come through this xx

And I pray nothing happens xx

I think you'll be just fine xx sending you lots of positivity and strength.  You've given yourself a scare but you can move on from this. If you're going to worry, then set a date for about twenty years in the future when you can start to worry about something a long way off still (at least if you dump those worries that far ahead your lovely baby will be all grown up). please please stop worrying now asbestos doesn't cause problems in the near term but after many decades and for people with long-term exposure over many years so please try my worry trick of dumping those worries into the future - imagine them going up in a rocket far away - and start eating and living again for the sake of your family and yourselfxx 

Hi Deedee. 

As sunny said keeping sure and positive is best action. 

If i didn't I'd probably be in a straight jacket. 

I've got prostate Cancer that's gone to lymph nodes, spine, ribs pelvis and a lung I'm on palliative care since February 2016 living with my uninvited guest. 

I'm also a carer for my darling wife she has Alzheimers and parkinsons plus other problems.

Just keep positive thoughts and actions and get living a normal life and only worry if something happens, remember nothing nothing is wrong now and there might never be anything wrong. Worrying just makes everything seem worse especially if nothing is actually wrong. Now. 

Best wishes. 

Billy 

Thank you so much. I'm trying so hard to think like you. I am praying that it will be ok. It is just so scary when they say pipe lagging is the blue asbestos which is the most hazardous so it really has mentally affected me. 

I too hope I can feel a little better tonight.  I keep re reading your messages too xx

Thank you Billy. You sound like  a very strong person.

Thank you for all your kind words. 

Hi - will think of you and send positivity thoughts out tonight. If you find yourself unable to settle, please don't start thinking this worry over. Instead, do something like a bodyscan, or read something relaxing, or visualise a happy future/place etc. Hopefully, you will soon start to feel that life is becoming more normal again and the horrible feeling that has taken over will go. But if not, please see your GP and/or look at NHS online for advice on managing Anxiety issues. You need to eat and be able to care for baby. Take care of yourself. Hugs xx

Stop reading. Not all pipe lagging is the same! I've played with blue asbestos - and all the other colours. There was a lot of it around when we were young! You don't know what your pipe lagging was. You said brown before. Maybe it wasn't even asbestos. You can't know. And whatever it was won't make any difference to today and only tiny risk in far-off future. Think of all the people who installed that stuff and how many more pipes they dealt with, cut etc. Day after day after day. You are frightening yourself for no purpose. You cannot change the past. The risk is negligible, almost zero and if anything bad were to occur it would be very very far in the future when baby is all grown up. By then technology will probably have evolved so far they can treat it anyway!! Think Sci Fi and they just replace any dodgy parts - or whatever. Seriously, healthcare could be totally different so far in the future. Cancer treatments are improving all the time. So think positive! Get back to enjoy living as you deservexx

Thank you so much. I do keep visualising all the horrible things rather than good things.  You are very kind to help me through this. 

I can tell how I'm behaving is impacting my husband and baby. I need to change my thoughts xx

I understand how you feel and it's hard enough looking after a little one without scaring yourself silly. Also I think you are starting to see a way forward so are on your way to beating this fear.

I reread your initial posting and those pipes were up in the attic. So out of harm's way unless you were sitting in the attic all day every day and knocking against them. We used to take pieces of asbestos and crumble them, jump on them. Perhaps I should be worried for my future. But what's the point? I feel relatively healthy now (the skin cancer issues are genetic plus I got burnt lots as a child but again I can't change the past. So I simply try to enjoy every day. Life is too precious to waste.

Really hope you have a better night and that life starts to feel a bit more normal tomorrow. You're going to give yourself a pounding headache with so much worrying. Maybe take baby out for a walk tomorrow. Fresh air will do you both good. Have you managed to eat a little tonight? You mustn't starve yourself. If nothing else try some mashed up banana or ice-cream. Take care x