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Archive for January, 2010
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Friday Links – Vitamin D Again, Anti-MMR Doctor Rebuke
Low Levels of Vitamin D = Lower Lung Function, Steroid Effectiveness National Jewish adds to the body of research linking vitamin D levels and asthma with this study, and it appears the connection is strong enough to warrant the possible use of supplements. (Previous posting on vitamin D and asthma research here and here.) Score One for [...] -
Tuesdays are Your Turn – Learning from Illness
We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage and indeed perhaps more. - Pearl S. Buck (1892 – 1973) Have you learned from your breathing problems, or your kid’s? I sure have. Parenthood in general – and in my case, young and unplanned parenthood – [...] -
What Happens if You Can’t Breathe in Haiti?
I can’t stop thinking about this lately. As much as I talk and write and think about my daughter’s early years of severity, the way her breathing instability robbed me of time, peace of mind, and occasionally my sanity and has hurt and continues to hurt my career today, I never had to wonder – [...] -
Asthma on American Idol
Do you watch American Idol? AG has a beautiful, powerful voice that she does not get from me. She and her Steadfast Sidekick love that show. When they watch it, I usually cringe over Idol’s smarmy, heavy-handed editing of contestants’ “very special stories” that shouldn’t have any bearing on a talent competition, anyway, since everyone [...] -
Tuesdays are Your Turn – Worst Asthma Symptom
If you’ve read this site for any length of time, you know my daughter’s near-constant coughing during flares will, even now, drive me to that cliff’s edge of a nervous breakdown on the worst nights. AG has no love for the coughing either, obviously, especially since it drives her to the point of hoarseness, a [...] -
Things That Matter – MLK Day 2010
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. More MLK Quotations Unlike many collections, this one sources each quotation with speeches and dates. Synopsis from How Stuff Works A summary of Dr. King’s role in the civil rights movement and the movement itself, some video, and links to [...] -
The Devastation in Haiti
Haiti was the poorest country in the Western hemisphere even before a 7.0 earthquake hit it this week. Infrastructure was weak to begin with and collapsed in the quake. Now the whole country suffers: According to the Red Cross and via CNN, the earthquake affected approximately 3 million, meaning 1 in 3 Haitians are dead, injured, and/or [...] -
American Lung Association’s State of Tobacco Control 2009
The ALA released its tobacco control report for 2009 today. It evaluates both the federal government and individual states on policy measures and anti-smoking programs because, in the organization’s own words, They have the potential to significantly reduce tobacco use in the United States, and save millions of lives from tobacco-related death and disease. The report [...]
