Month: May 2014

What do you do on those nights that seem to never end, the nights a nebuliser feels like its taking hours to work and then you feel like it is hours before you can have your next one. Time feels like it is standing still and you are lone with your thoughts. The time where… Continue reading Those never ending nights of nothingness

Although just now I constantly feel slightly under the weather as I just quite can't get control of my asthma to the point where I am not needing my reliever inhaler several time throughout the day. The past few days  had a strange situation and one which I wish to need go through again. It… Continue reading Ill of a different kind

After everything that happened last week for World Asthma Day, it resulted on being invited to attend the cross party group meeting for Asthma with Asthma UK. The meeting was a special meeting because it was also the launch of the Centre of Applied Research which sees for the first time in asthma research different… Continue reading Cross Party Group Meeting at the Scottish Parliament

The national review of asthma deaths was realised/ published on the same day as World Asthma Day. Part of me wishes I had never read the report. The statistics are shocking and if I'm honest pretty frightening. Going through the report a lot of some of the findings I have experienced.  people did not receive… Continue reading The UK National Review of Asthma Deaths- May 2014

I wrote this to tie in with the report published about Asthma Deaths and complacency about asthma.My personal experience with Asthma has been very mixed. Having suffered with it now for 26 years I can honestly now say I take responsibility for my condition where even maybe five years ago I can not say I… Continue reading What Asthma Has Taught Me

6th May 2014What a day. Not only was it my step dads 60th birthday but it was also World Asthma Day and the release of a report into the number of asthma deaths in the UK.The conclusion was horrific. Far too many people are dying from asthma needlessly. The 6th May did not turn out the… Continue reading World Asthma Day