This is what a severe asthma exacerbation looks like .
This is not a portrayal, this is the real thing!
Below you’ll find photos and video clips of me during various hospitalizations from 2007 to 2021, as well as a clip of an Australian teen suffering an acute asthma attack. Im posting these images to make others aware that asthma can be quite severe and life threatening at times.
Breathing during these exacerbations is so difficult sometimes that I can’t keep up anymore. It’s usually at that point that I wake up days later with a tube shoved down my throat breathing with the help of a ventilator. At least I wake up, 3,600 other asthmatics in this country last year were not so lucky. Hopefully your asthma will never get this bad.
This next clip was taken from AsthmaUK.org and shows a teenager suffering a pretty severe asthma attack. He reminds me a lot of myself when I was his age. I lived this same exact scenario at least four times a year when I was growing up. Not fun.
