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Archive for December, 2007
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Top Asthma Stories of 2007
New Year’s Eve has always struck me as a wonderfully hopeful and neat, elegant way to bookend the holiday season. Sure it’s hard to let go of Christmas, but New Year’s helps. The ending and beginning that marks midnight means undecorating the tree and packing away my front-door wreath, only WITH A PARTY. Genius. Also brilliant [...] -
2007 by the Numbers
I’m totally stealing this idea from…..um……myself (can you steal from yourself?) over at BellaOnline, where I’ve simultaneously posted the same, slightly modified information this morning. Numbers sometimes tell the story better than words can and I know the higher-level mathematicians out there would probably argue with me, but numbers are also more simple and clear-cut than [...] -
Friday Links: Saturday Edition
Today brings just one new link, but it’s a fabulous one. Living with asthma, whether in yourself or your child, means learning all sorts of new terms about breathing, lung anatomy, and the respiratory system. But simply reading that stridor, for example, means a high-pitched sound when breathing in does not necessarily equal a true understanding [...] -
Learning to Advocate
I hope you all had a peaceful (impossible, right?) and healthy Christmas. Remember how we discussed stress both good and bad as an asthma trigger? And remember how the AG came through Thanksgiving and most of December with no major illness or flare, and while it looked like she’d set a new personal best of two [...] -
Apple Muffins for Christmas Morning
New here and wondering why an asthma blog is featuring recipes? Read how apples maybe help with asthma inflammation and the allergic response first. Now the downside of apples lies in their regular appearance on the list of top 5 most contaminated fruits. Peaches, pears, and strawberries fill the other top fruit slots, and although availability [...] -
Friday Links: Allergy Edition
Today’s new links are all about allergies. My Asthma Girl doesn’t have any allergic triggers except for dust mites, but the two often go hand in hand. Here’s more information about the links I’m adding to the sidebar. Allergy Moms This site focuses on food allergies, and it contains both a blog and a free newsletter. Another [...] -
Apple Dip for Parties, and Maybe Even for Your Lungs
There is no *asthma diet.* I’m putting that right in front because I know some of you Googled that phrase to get here. Sure, you can find nutritional suggestions for asthma patients on a few webpages and the good sites back up the recommendations with actual research, but by *asthma diet* I mean that no doctor [...] -
Holiday Triggers: Food Allergy Edition
Andie reminded me in the comments the other day about the whole world of asthma triggers outside my own kid’s particular bubble of flare fun. We have all sorts of lung issues over here (the AG) and environmental allergies and eczema (the AG’s little sis) but the one thing we’re not dealing with, for which I [...] -
While We’re On the Subject, Santa
I want the following items, too, because it’s not enough to have more and better research, treatment, and medical access for asthma sufferers. We’ve also got to ensure cleaner air. Here’s What Else I Want for Christmas 1. For the U.S. to stop dragging its feet at international global warming conferences. Seriously, it took pleading in Bali [...] -
Dear Santa
During the Asthma Girl’s early childhood, I didn’t wish for a whole lot. Nothing material, really. A week’s worth of sleep. A guarantee that my kid wouldn’t stop breathing in the middle of the night. My sanity. I haven’t written much on this blog about those years because they’re not easy to think about. In 1999, I gave birth [...]
