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I know in my last post which was on World Asthma Day I had written about plans I had for the month with different blog posts but it didnt work out. I needed some me time I also felt a bit out of it for the last week or so due to an abscess in… Continue reading Just didnt feel like writing

The statement 'I know what its like I need to take my blue inhaler sometimes' or 'I get a cough I know how you feel' make me and I am sure many others want to scream and tell them they have no idea what it is like. There are so many things severe asthmatics just… Continue reading What a severe asthmatic wants everyone to know!!

Asthma has so many misconceptions with severe asthma have even less understanding with those asthmatics just wanting people to understand what its like and what is not in all the text books and literature as most of these are written by those who think they know what asthma is like because they have studied it… Continue reading What asthmatics what the medical profession to understand.

Tomorrow and then in a months time there are two events in which people I know are running for a very special cause. Tomorrow one of my younger brothers is running the London Marathon and then at the end of May team mates from my lacrosse team Capital are running the Edinburgh relay Marathon. They… Continue reading Why is fundraising for ASTHMA so important??

The last few weeks have been pretty rubbish since getting out of hospital so I kind of had all my eggs piled in todays clinic appointment thinking there would be some magic wand waved and all would be fixed- Im not sure why I thought this as I have just read the report on Severe… Continue reading Clinic, going to see work and finding my security blanket!!!

My Scottish followers may have seen the news as it has caused a lot of uproar even planned boycotts of using the shops based in the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and also the canteen.  The First Minister has also raised concerns and been involved voicing her opinion. For those of you who don't know what I… Continue reading Parking charges set to more than double at work (RIE)

This last three weeks and one week out of hospital has flagged up a huge range of thoughts and questions to me. I keep questioning everything just now and really feel like there is no going forward. I feel exactly like I did about 9 years ago after I spent over 3 months in hospital… Continue reading Currently uncertain

So my last post was written when I was in hospital and it took me forever to write. I just had so little concentration and left it fairly abruptly saying I was going to ITU. Well I spent 4 days in ITU. The first 24 hours were really hard. I remember just having such a… Continue reading What a few weeks

I started this post about a week ago when I was still in hospital. I was going to finish it and then post but as I am now home I am just going to post it as it is because it's how I felt at the time. I will write about the last 3 weeks… Continue reading Putting the last two weeks into some sort of order.