Archive for February, 2008

  • Asthma and the Low Birth Weight Baby

    Asthma and the Low Birth Weight Baby

    (AG, one week old) Last night I went to bed another year older, but back on my 23rd birthday in 1999 I went to bed heavily pregnant and woke up sometime after midnight on the verge of motherhood. Eleven or so hours of labor later, I gave birth to my first daughter. Yep, AG’s ninth [...]

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  • 32 Things About Me

    32 Things About Me

    As I walk, I think about a new way to walk As I think, I’m using up the time left to think And this train keep rolling off the track Trying to act like something else Trying to go where it’s been uninvited It’s not my birthday It’s not today. –They Might Be Giants Just [...]

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  • Saving Money on Asthma Meds

    Saving Money on Asthma Meds

    Wow. The Democratic nomination just isn’t going to come easily, is it? But what a battle – get two worthy, passionate candidates, throw them into a neck-and-neck contest for the nomination, and see what happens. American politics is exciting again! Yesterday’s post about the candidates’ health care platforms reminded me it’s time for another coupon [...]

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  • Super Tuesday: The Candidates on Health Care

    Super Tuesday: The Candidates on Health Care

    Hello, and Happy Super Tuesday. My primary vote didn’t count, but yours will if you’re voting today. Here’s a quick rundown of the top four candidates’ health care platforms. After slowly–very slowly–reading my way through all the campaign websites, I found the entirely awesome and easy to understand WebMD Stance at a Clance tool, which [...]

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  • Phone-in Prescriptions, Again

    Phone-in Prescriptions, Again

    Earlier this morning, while working on a freelance project with the TV on for noise, I heard something on Good Morning, America that made me not only look up but actually stop typing until the end of the segment. First, let’s back up a moment to my January 25th post about CNN’s article, Are you [...]

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  • Saturday Links

    Saturday Links

    I feel like the very first Saturday Links on this new url should have some sort of theme, but they don’t. Enjoy! Looks like severe asthma might just be a different form of the disease than non-severe types. A newly discovered physiological difference in the airways of severe asthmatics may just explain why they don’t [...]

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  • This is Asthma

    This is Asthma

    I believe I started this blog backwards. When Asthma Mom went live last fall, I had no clear plan but assumed the world didn’t need another comprehensive asthma website. Then my traffic numbers started creeping up and I started getting some emails from regular readers and some of those emails included questions. Then I started [...]

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