Myself and Karen (Captain at Craigmillar Park Golf Club) want to thank all those who participated, volunteered, donated prizes, and helped make the day such a great success. A huge amount of money was raised and it was way above our target but the money everyone donated and help raise will go towards ground breaking developments in asthma research to help produce new medications to help everyone with asthma. A thank you to Lisa who introduced our video and her son for his expert filming!
Everyone knows someone with asthma but not everyone knows that 3 people die every day from an asthma attack. Since the publication of the National Review of Asthma Deaths in 2014 there have been approximately 1600 deaths from asthma in the UK. This number is far to high. I owe a huge thanks to all those who have helped save my life when been admitted to hospital and ended up in intensive care or high dependancy but I have ad some friends who have not been so lucky and have lost their life to asthma. The public perspective of asthma needs to change as many think asthma is just about taking a blue inhaler but it is far more than that. I can control and dictate your life in ways you never think are possible. Even those who have mild asthma and will never think they are at risk of a life threatening asthma attack but they are, anyone with an asthma diagnosis could potentially be at risk from asthma.
Please watch our video below.
ANONYMOUS-ASTHMA 