For school we have to figure out what disease a person has after hearing a brief story how they began to show symptoms and died. The story I have to do is about a farmer who had a winter full of rain, a perfect spring and a great wheat harvest. After a year of good luck, he decided he was going to fix his barns roof. He worked on it for hours each day. After the roof was done he went to bed with a fever and chills. He then had trouble breathing and was hospitalized, he died two days later.

I’m thinking that he might have Mesothelioma, a disease you get from asbestos. I know that it takes a year to kill someone if untreated, and it sounds like he was in his barn (which had an old roof, and old building sometimes have asbestos) alot of that year. A lot of the symtoms are the same too. I’m just not sure if the symptoms are suppose to come sooner or something, so I was wondering if Im right or not. Does anyone know?
I’m pretty sure he started fixing the roof after the harvest. The actual sheet says “Once harvesting was done, he decided that the barn needed a new roof.”. Looking back on it if it went over a course of a year, then he spent the Summer and Autumn after the spring working on it too… I think