(Totally off-subject and originally published at my other blog, Raising Jane.)
Do you know the Legend of the Sugarplum Fairy? Not the ballet character but the Halloween legend.
No?
Oh, you’re going to love me for this one.
Here’s what you do. Sit your kids down on Halloween night or the day after. (The Sugarplum Fairy keeps a flexible […]
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Okay, there’s no way I’m moving to St. Paul, Minnesota. In the Asthma Family’s continuing quest for a good place to move, I’m afraid Minnesota is just too damn cold.
I’m loving the news about their Healthy Learner program in schools, though. Such an innovative idea, to coordinate kids’ asthma care and education among the school, […]
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I’ve already explained why moving to Georgia isn’t in the cards for Asthma Family, but I might have to add Kansas to the list. Not that Kansas was ever really on the list. Do people even move to Kansas, ever? I’m sure there are many wonderful people and places in that fine state, but I […]
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I wouldn’t say having a kid with asthma has a whole lot of advantages. Plus, I’m less a silver lining kind of woman than I am a glass-is-half-nothing-because-it-is-bone-dry one. Every so often, though, I do step out of my cloud of pessimism and Why My Kid? mode to feel a bit of gratitude for lessons […]
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You know, the one about the mom who wouldn’t take her son with asthma to get the vaccine because last year he happened to get really sick even though he’d had one?
Yeah, she’s an idiot.
I swear, I overheard this conversation in the grocery store over the weekend. It’s none of my business of course, but […]
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The Aerovance company reports good test results from two clinical trials with a new asthma drug, although some doctors are apparently skeptical.
Called a pitrakinra, the drug is a cytokine blocker. These kinds of drugs have been tried in the past, but the new one is different because it blocks two cytokines associated with asthma, while […]
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Another Asthma Mom and I were discussing inhalers and our children last night, and here’s what we want to know:
Why do spacers require prescriptions in our state?
As I understand it, not every state does, so I guess we’re just lucky. But we can’t figure out the reason behind the rule. Rule? Law? Statute? I have […]
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Another weekend, another parenting dilemma.
My kid, who I guess I’ll give the pseudonym Asthma Girl in keeping with the theme of this blog, spent last weekend recovering from a cold, and illness is her biggest trigger. She spent most of the week needing her inhaler every 4 hours to control the leftover cough (this is […]
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Al Gore is a busy man.
First he created the worldwide web and now the Nobel Peace Prize? The Nobel Committee awarded Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,
for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract […]
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Why?
Here’s why.
It’s a shame when otherwise appealing, economically healthy and culture-rich states ruin their image by not ensuring clean air for their citizens. I read about the permit for Dynegy earlier this year, and I know several advocacy groups fought hard against it. Coal-fired power plants are some of the worst polluters in this country, […]
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