My recent posts on the swine flu have racked up higher traffic numbers than anything else I’ve posted lately, and as a result, I’ve been getting an awful lot of emails and comments questioning whether I’m panicked now even if I wasn’t before, whether I should be if I’m still not, and whether all the [...]

Filed under: My Asthma Girl & Me, The Sickroom | 6 people talking »

The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America released this year’s Spring Allergy Capitals, with the top 3 slots all in the usual mid-South. My area just makes the list of 100, clocking in at 92. You can see all 100 cities on this pdf, but check out the top 5 allergy capitals:
1. Louisville, KY
2. Knoxville, [...]

Filed under: Asthma Triggers | 5 people talking »

Ever since doctors diagnosed AG with asthma 8 years ago and throughout our early struggles with her breathing, we’ve slowly incorporated specific foods purported to have healing properties into our eating patterns. Foods like omega-3-rich fish, for example, may promote my kid’s good lung health or it may not, but I err on the side [...]

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I usually write something for World Asthma Day, but with life more or less settled in Colorado now, I’ve been concentrating on the ole job search in lieu of posting lately.
Because, guys: there’s a certain asthma kid headed to college in 8 years, and this blog sure ain’t footing that bill.
So. Check out what [...]

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Since I live and write in the Mile High City, this blog gets a fair amount of traffic from readers interested in the impact of high altitude on asthma. Here are the posts I’ve written on the subject:
The first time I visited Denver with my asthma kid.
My thoughts on high altitude living and moving from [...]

Filed under: Air Quality | 2 people talking »