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After my reps nurse appointment the other week I was really nervous about how my clinic appointment would go. I was not looking forward to it but sometimes the things you don't look forward to and dread can come out ok. this was the case here. I had lung function as always and I know… Continue reading Clinic

Last week my granny was taken into hospital. We are now in a position that she is for end of life care and will not be returning home.Today she was started on a syringe driver to keep her comfortable.She has a bad chest and an infection caused her asthma to play up and then go… Continue reading My Granny

Im going through a period of being really fed up. I feel I am suffering and symptomatic most of the time requiring my inhaler etc but when I see my consultant she just does nothing. I am due to see the respiratory nurses soon and feel like thawing my toys out the pram. I cannot… Continue reading Fed up of it all

Tomorrow I have an appointment with the cardiologist. I am a bit nervous about this but also wondering what the point of going is. The respiratory nurses have already told me the result of the tests which I had done. They said that the problem with my heart and it racing all the time is… Continue reading Cardiology

Today I had the opportunity to meet and chat with one of the people who have been promoting patient involvement in research and the new research centre which has received funding from Asthma UK. It was a fantastic opportunity to speak to her and find out what she does, how closely she works with Asthma… Continue reading Research for young people

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