Notes from an Asthma Kid
Hi!
Okay, you know I have asthma (duh).

Filed under: AG, Asthma Kids, Asthma Parenting, My Asthma Girl & Me | 7 people talking »

From last week’s reader response comment section, which is replete with good material and you should totally go read if you haven’t yet:
On a similar note, anyone have issues with missing too much work because of staying home with their asthma child? My boss has said I need to find “alternate child care” for when [...]

Filed under: Advocacy, Asthma Parenting, My Asthma Girl & Me, Reader Response, The Sickroom | 11 people talking »

When I started this site, I didn’t tell anyone except Mr. Asthma Mom. And by “anyone,” I mean none of my friends and none of my family and not even my children.
Not even AG herself, the sometime subject of this whole thing.
I’ve wanted, always, to make sure my daughter thinks of herself as a kid [...]

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Except for dust mites, my daughter doesn’t have any allergies. Intrinsic triggers tend to generate her flares instead.
But how about you?
What allergies are you/your child living with?
Related and making today a twofer:
Which one of them is the worst trigger?

Filed under: Asthma Triggers, My Asthma Girl & Me, Reader Response | 12 people talking »

I’ve not been too active blog-wise lately because these are the weeks of AG.
Seriously, check it out:
1. Last week, the kid performed an early morning audition for her school’s spring musical, and this week’s the callback.
“Callbacks?” you say. “In elementary school?”
OH YES, is my answer.
The school music teacher doesn’t play when it comes to extracurricular [...]

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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 – [...]

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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 [...]

Filed under: Asthma Parenting, Flares & Flare Symptoms, My Asthma Girl & Me, Reader Response | 17 people talking »

Don’t ever think the asthma you’re dealing with today will be the same disease you’re treating next year, next month, or even tomorrow.
Asthma changes all the time. It can involve new symptoms and new triggers, and it can affect a person in ways totally new and unexpected. People with asthma – and everyone else, for [...]

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Part of the series A Decade of Asthma
No, she doesn’t have one yet, but I hope she will someday.
I blog as the parent of an asthma patient, but the patient bloggers themselves – people like Steve, who is practically a superhero, and students  like Danielle and Kerri, who manage their health the way my daughter [...]

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Part of the series A Decade of Asthma
Raising a kid with asthma involves more judgment calls and gray areas than I’m really happy with, but I can’t change the nature of the beast. Instead, I’ve learned to pay attention and trust that still, quiet voice within.
When intuition suggested I change the way AG used [...]

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