Posted on August 4th, 2008 by Amy
It’s 105 degrees with the heat index here and the midday air resembles soup more than anything else, but I’m still in a fine, fine mood this morning. School starts exactly two weeks from today, and I get to stop juggling writing and editing projects with the summer entertainment of two children.
If you’re an Asthma […]
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Posted on July 28th, 2008 by Amy
Occasionally, I wonder how often I should revisit a particular subject. How many different ways are there, really, to describe asthma maintenance plans and debate the merits of inhaled steroids?
Not that many.
And yet sometimes life will whack me on the back of the head and tell me I need those constant asthma reminders, as I […]
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Posted on July 16th, 2008 by Amy
In the middle of my trip, we spent two different days in Colorado Springs to A) ride the cog railway to the top of Pike’s Peak and B) walk around the Garden of Gods.
Now the pictures get really good.
I think I’ve mentioned a time or 10 that I’m no photographer, but you’d have to try […]
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Posted on July 15th, 2008 by Amy
I hear visitors here in Florida talk all the time about the sheer magnitude of the Gulf and how it humbles them. And sometimes, if I go to the part of the beach with no tourists and no condos or hotels and the water stretches all the way out the horizon, I feel it, too. […]
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Posted on July 14th, 2008 by Amy
Three hours of delays in the already-hectic Atlanta airport last night, and I’m more than happy to be home in Florida today, even now during hurricane season and the dead, dead days of a humid Gulf Coast summer.
Summer felt so, so different in Colorado, of course. How very strange to walk around in summer temperatures […]
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Posted on July 11th, 2008 by Amy
Guess I’m not updating until I get back, since we’re busier hiking up mountains and red rocks than I thought.
Expect lots of gorgeous photos on Monday, but here’s the short version: my kid’s lungs are working like gangbusters here in the thin, clear air, although the altitude sure is tiring her little sister out.
As […]
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Posted on June 26th, 2008 by Amy
I’ve written a couple of times before that I wouldn’t turn this blog into a comprehensive asthma source. For one, the Internet isn’t hurting for good asthma pages–like here, here, and here.
And also?
Asthma Mom morphed into a blog also about air quality and pollution, children’s health, and of course a weekly collection of strange medical […]
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Posted on June 20th, 2008 by Amy
C-Sections Increase Childhood Asthma Risk by 50%
Research has suggested the connection between Caesarean birth and asthma before, but this is the clearest link yet. The Norwegian study looked at 1.7 million births over 30 or so years, and emergency C-sections upped the risk even further. And asthma risk during vaginal birth increased with vacuum or […]
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Posted on June 16th, 2008 by Amy
When I was in eighth grade, I used to walk around with a big *Save the Rainforest* sticker plastered across my clarinet case. I belonged to a magnet school that encouraged creativity and critical thinking, and my newfound environmentalism was one result. But I had the typical fervent-yet-shallow belief of the new recruit. While I […]
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Posted on June 10th, 2008 by Amy
I just have to smile when I read headlines like Summer Weather Can Aggravate Asthma, Doctors Say, not because I find heat-triggered asthma particularly amusing but because summer means nothing but relief around these parts. We’ve headed into a Flovent-free three months during this, AG’s easiest season, and she doesn’t usually need her bronchodilator much […]
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