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Asthma Mom’s Rules for Surviving and Containing a Stomach Bug
When my kids were little, I assumed if one of us started throwing up, it was inevitable that the rest of us would end up camping out in the bathroom ourselves within a couple of days. Until I decided to get smarter about stomach bugs and actively work to prevent their circulating through this family. [...] -
Let Me Count Your Breathing
Ever do something for so long, it’s like second nature and you sort of forget that people in regular life don’t do it, too? And then you stop doing that thing, and even though it took up a large chunk of your life for several years, you actually forget you ever did it in the [...] -
Tuesdays are Your Turn – Asthma Kid to Asthma Tween to Asthma Teen Transitioning
If there’s one thing I know, it’s how to maintain my daughter’s lung health. Over the years, we’ve successfully navigated her early, severe years, her symptom changes, her transition into public school, and even a cross-country move that involved a major geographic/climate change. But now my kid is 11. In August, she’ll enter sixth grade, [...] -
Tuesdays are Your Turn – Flare Entertainment
Today’s question comes from email: Any moms or dads with preschoolers have ideas to occupy my little one when she’s having a bad flare and I need to keep her from running around too much? (Besides movies and picture books?) Some Suggestions Craft supplies – crayons, stickers, glitter glue, etc. Puzzles White board with markers [...] -
Friday Links – School Neglect, Stress Risk Factors, Bone Marrow
British Court Rules Student Asthma Death a Result of Neglect When 11 year-old Sam Linton suffered an asthma flare at his school in December 2007, he apparently struggled for hours while no one called an ambulance. Later, he died in the hospital. This grievous personal tragedy for the Linton family and the horrifying failure of [...] -
Tuesdays are Your Turn – Eyes & Spring Allergies (Help)
Who’s got tips for eye irritation during allergy season? I have almost no experience with seasonal allergy alleviation. My asthma kid’s allergic to dust mites only, and while my non-asthmatic seemed sensitive to tree pollens as a toddler, she’s not anymore. When she did spend the pre-summer months with a perpetual runny nose, we lived [...] -
Putting Yourself on the List
A comment last week has me thinking about parents and other caretakers, and the way the more persistent forms of childhood asthma can send them whistling merrily down the crazymaking path towards a nervous breakdown. Go check out the full comment on last week’s post, but here’s the key point: I’ve had to learn to [...] -
Counting Down a Decade of Asthma – No. 2, My Kid’s Blog
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 [...] -
Counting Down a Decade of Asthma – No. 4, Trust Yourself
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 [...] -
Counting Down a Decade of Asthma – No. 7, Deconstructing the Cough
Part of the series A Decade of Asthma The progression of my understanding of the notorious asthma cough over the last decade with AG: Post-diagnosis by about a year, circa 2002 Wait, you mean all my kid’s coughing is the actual asthma attack? Still 2002, about six months later (What can I say? I’m a [...]
