Asthma

Hi, this is going to be a short post just to let everyone know that this blog was taken off the air for a while because some nice mischief-maker decided to flag it as spam, which is quite absurd. Anyway, that's water under the bridge now as the people who run bloghi have looked at it and given it a clean bill of health.

So in the months that has elapsed when I couldn't post anything in here, quite a lot has happened with regards to my condition, most of it good although not all of it. With the coming of Spring, comes the odd still day when the air doesn't get much of a chance to move and pollution from cars etc seems to hang in the air. It was on just such a day a couple of weeks ago that I found myself walking through town and was caught unawares by that sudden tightening of the chest and I wasn't really prepared for it.

Ugh. I had no choice but to stop and use my inhaler as the symptoms were coming on rapidly. I was close at a bus stop on a busy main road , so at least I could sit down and try to calm myself down. The asthma attack that was in its way never really took hold, so I got away with that one.

That just goes to show that no matter what you do, you should still carry that inhaler around with you "just in case." Nine times out of ten, if you can keep yourself calm and not let your self get stressed, you won't need it.

However, you can't control the atmosphere and on such a day when the air is more polluted than normal, it is better not to go out in it and definitely stay away from town or city centres where there is a lot of traffic, because I firmly believe that the fumes play a big part in causing a lot of people's asthma.

Ok, that's my two penn'th for today. See you all soon,

Chelsea