1. The illness I live with is: cough variant asthma, chronic hypertension, chronic anxiety, and PTSD (from Katie’s delivery) 2. I was diagnosed with it in the year: 2002 with the first three, the last was late 2008 3. But I had symptoms since: childhood for the asthma. Since college for the anxiety 4. The [...]
Posts Tagged ‘asthma’
30 Things About My Invisible Illness You May Not Know
Posted in health, tagged anxiety, asthma, hypertension, invisible Illness Week on September 16, 2009 | 8 Comments »
We Need Health Care Reform
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged asthma, healthcare, politics, trigonocephaly on September 10, 2009 | 4 Comments »
This is not a political issue. This is not a party issue. This is a human issue. Every one of us, insured or uninsured is one major illness away from a catastrophe. No matter how well insured you think you are or how well off you think you are, one major illness could wipe you [...]
When Asthma Doesn’t Seem Like Asthma
Posted in Family, tagged asthma, children, cough variant asthma, symptoms on August 4, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Quick. When you think of someone with asthma what do you picture? What do you hear? For most people the answer is wheezing. They see someone who always seems to struggle for air a bit or whose breathing is audible a lot of the time. My aunt had that kind of asthma. It was scary [...]
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