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the_siobhan) wrote2008-09-09 07:36 pm
the_siobhan) wrote2008-09-09 07:36 pm
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breathing easy
Today was my asthma test.
It was kind of neat. They pumped my lungs full of various concentrations of histamine, and then had me blow into a tube while a computer tracked my lung capacity. No pressurized box this time, but I got to watch my lungs perform on screen.
Final result of the test: I DON'T HAVE ASTHMA.
Let me just repeat that for those of you who may not have gathered the full import of what I am saying here.
I. DO NOT. HAVE ASTHMA. There is NOTHING permanently wrong with my lungs.
Anybody want some Advair 250's? That's a chunk of money I'll never have to throw away again. Ha.
The down side to all this is that now that I have to figure out why the hell I can't friggin' breathe. The most likely candidate is allergies. Which doesn't make me happy. I don't have a lot of faith in that particular branch of medical science.
But still. I don't have asthma. Love a duck.
For my next trick I'm going to regain normal eyesight and grow a prehensile tail.
It was kind of neat. They pumped my lungs full of various concentrations of histamine, and then had me blow into a tube while a computer tracked my lung capacity. No pressurized box this time, but I got to watch my lungs perform on screen.
Final result of the test: I DON'T HAVE ASTHMA.
Let me just repeat that for those of you who may not have gathered the full import of what I am saying here.
I. DO NOT. HAVE ASTHMA. There is NOTHING permanently wrong with my lungs.
Anybody want some Advair 250's? That's a chunk of money I'll never have to throw away again. Ha.
The down side to all this is that now that I have to figure out why the hell I can't friggin' breathe. The most likely candidate is allergies. Which doesn't make me happy. I don't have a lot of faith in that particular branch of medical science.
But still. I don't have asthma. Love a duck.
For my next trick I'm going to regain normal eyesight and grow a prehensile tail.
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I know it's a hard thing to deal with. I use to have inhalers everywhere for my son. Always needed to be ready for the asthma attack that may happen.
Thought he had outgrown it untill he came home from school yesterday looking a little flushed. He told me he had an attack. Now he has to take his inhaler to school again.
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I know my lungs will seize up even sitting on the bus next to somebody who has been smoking recently and has it clinging to their clothes. And lysol is a known asthma trigger, especially for children.
Controlling allergens at school is a lot harder, but if you can identify that he's reacting to something specific you can talk to his teachers.