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The evil candy

(The Prednisone Molecule) Thanks everyone for checking up on me. I'm fine! ( well,... almost) I've been out of the hospital for 5 days now, and ...

Cmon....Thank a Nurse, Thank an RT

As I was mentioning to AsthmaMom, the first rule of etiquette for an asthmatic who has just survived another bad flare and hospital stay, is to thank those who ...

What's up with the lung transplant eval?

Ive been posting fairly frequently, either here or on my Facebook page, about what's been going on with my asthma treatment in the conventional sense, but a lot of people ...

Polar Bears, my trip to Churchill

My journey begins in Winnipeg (my very first time crossing the Canadian border). Just 2 days earlier there had been a pretty bad snow storm and potential weather delays ...

10 miles and a blister .......Life is good

Yee Haaaaaaaaaah ---Got my first battle scar. Racked up a little more than 10 miles today and got my very first blister. Yup, on the ...

Play that Bass

Music is food for the soul and therapy for whatever ails you, and lung disease is no exception. Listening to music and learning to play an instrument has been ...

12 years

The many faces of this blog over this past 12 years........

Treatment overload

Yes, another update about treatment options. Things seem to be changing at a lightening pace now and it's making my head explode. Too much for an over-thinker like me to ...

The wonderful side effects of frequent asthma flares

Think a severe asthma exacerbation only effects your lungs? Check out the photos below. Each photo was taken appx 2-3 weeks after being discharged from the hospital after a serious ...

Im an A hole when Im sick

Most people will tell you Im one of the sweetest, most caring people you'll ever meet. But make no mistake, when Im recovering from a bad asthma exacerbation, ...

We finished the race , but someone stole the medals

Today my friends and I crossed the finish line at the 2005 US Half Marathon, but we didn't get our medals because someone stole them! We got ...

And so it begins....Dupilumab

After waiting nearly 17 months with one setback after another and texting a friend saying "I'll believe it the day the drug is actually inside my body" ...

My 133rd hospitalization for asthma

My 133rd hospitalization occurred on 10-9-2017. The trigger wasn't the usual environmental allergies or resp infection, this time it was smoke from wildfires that have been devastating portions of northern ...

You're worthy

What is it with chronic severe asthma, self esteem, self doubt or self worthiness? Why do we tend to hide or downplay our disease or the severity of our ...

Macrolide therapy

This past week I started on yet another experimental therapy. This time it's long- term Macrolide therapy using Azithromycin. As an add-on therapy, recent studies indicate that the long term use ...

The not so glamorous side of being a severely asthmatic marathon walker

Yeah, I made it to Boston , Ive walked the Rome and Portland marathons a couple times, and yeah Ive been written up in lots of walk magazines and ...

My asthma has changed again

I'm not talking about the disease itself, I still have the classic text book definition of asthma, maybe even to a greater degree than many. What I'm referring to is ...

Exercise like your life depends on it

Everyone knows how important daily exercise is for maintaining good health, but I believe this is even more true when you suffer from a chronic breathing disorder such as ...

I'm phenotyped

Thanks to the efforts of the SARP researchers and the new era of severe asthma phenotyping, my particular flavor of the disease has finally been described. Drum roll please..................... It's called ...

Not just Asthma, Severe Asthma!

Not to downplay the heartache and suffering that people with milder forms of asthma have to sometimes contend with; obviously it's a big deal when you can't breath, but the ...

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