Well, I think I got quite a bit accomplished in the week I spend trying to clean up my blog. For the most part, I’m pretty happy with the results. But what a pain in the butt! I must have done over a thousand individual edits just to get things to look and function they [...]
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Last week after finding out just how damaged my lungs really are, the only thing going through my head was..WHY? All of the assumptions I had made about my asthma throughout the years, suddenly didn’t seem to make sense anymore. I was beginning to wonder if I really ever had asthma at all? Maybe I just [...]
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I’m a lab rat…. and proud of it ! Later today I’m off to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for the Sally Wenzel . She’s done so much to advance the knowledge of the severe forms of this disease. I admire her and feel like I already know her. My plane leaves at 11 pm tonight, and with [...]
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Medpedia, the worlds largest health and information encyclopedia project. Well, I’m excited to announce that they’ve just expanded their platform by including a “News and Analysis”, a Q&A section and an “Alerts” feature. Read the latest press release here. Also in the works, and one of my favorites features, is a “Clinical Trials” search engine… [...]
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I don’t usually write about my childhood, because frankly, its too painful and because most of it is so outrageous, that a lot of people wouldn’t believe it anyway. But just for kicks, I thought Id share one of my favorite stories. To preface this ,I have to tell to you that I came from [...]
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It’s official, I’m going to Boston…AGAIN! And this time around, I have a sponsor! (details to follow) Related Posts:No Related Posts
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Found this interesting and informative article about Dr Sally Wenzel, and why she decided to get involved in severe asthma research. It gets a little technical in the middle , but well worth the read. The more I hear about this amazing women and all of her contributions to the study of this disease, the [...]
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You think I’m kidding? Here are a few pictures for my international friends: OK, first there’s the vintage plastic pumpkins that live in the loft… year round! (25 of them) Then there’s the antique coffin that doubles as a towel cabinet/plant stand/nebulizer stand in one of the bathrooms Then there’s the 19th century coffin with [...]
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Pretty nice place for an early morning racewalking jaunt..eh? Solana Beach, California; The advanced clinic was awesome as I knew it would be. Racewalk Planet TV. Ive been watching his racewalking videos for years (podcasts. He wanted to interview me for one of his upcoming podcasts, but I had to skip out early on Sunday [...]
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Nothing really interesting going on since I got out of the hospital. Though Ive taken a couple of short slow walks, overall Ive been trying to let my lungs heal as much as possible before jumping back into a physical fitness regimen full time. Been spending a lot of this post hospital recovery time doing [...]
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Sorry, this race report is a little late in coming, but I didn’t want my little prison stint to over shadow all the good things about this race. First let me say what a pleasure it was to finally meet the famousMc Govern alumni who trekked in from all over the country to do this [...]
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Had a great time and a stronger than expected finish at yesterday race. My final race results aren’t in yet due to a technical glitch, but I think I finished in about 3:07 , which is much faster than I anticipated and probably why I’m having problems today. I felt fine immediately after the race, [...]
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