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“Shake Well Before Use” — How Having Asthma Inspired an Artist!

Erin — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 18:09:15 +0000

My name is Brandon Vosika, I’m a 24 year-old artist and painter. I’m currently working on a new project about asthma. I’m making handmade art books called “Shake Well Before Use” which will contain drawings and full color paintings of art about the things that help us breathe. You can currently find my project on kickstarter.com for a very limited time. I’ve had asthma for most of my life so this project is something that’s become extremely important to me.

Here’s my story:
I’ve had asthma for 22 years of my life. It’s something that is as much a part of me as breathing itself. …

AsthmaSense® Cloud Twitter Party! June 18th 9pm/EST

Erin — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 16:43:15 +0000

RSVP for a chance to win an iPad!

Join us for the AsthmaSense® Cloud Twitter Party on June 18th at 9pm EST.

To participate, just follow the conversation and tweet with using the hashtag #asthmasense

Make sure to follow @SoundAsthma, @BrettbMartin, and @AMomstake so you don’t miss out!

Click here to go to a TweetGrid set up for the party to easily follow and join in – You must log-in with your own Twitter Handle.

RSVP below for the #AsthmaSense Twitter party on June 18, 2013 from 9-10PM EST for a …

How my Life with Asthma has Changed over the Years

Erin — Mon, 20 May 2013 15:29:51 +0000

Being that it’s World Asthma Awareness Month, it got me thinking back a bit to some of the progressions in the care and treatment of asthma, and how it enables people to do things they could not do years ago.

I was diagnosed with asthma when I was young from what my mom told me, around 3 years old. I have vague memories of visiting the Children’s Hospital ER for my asthma a couple of times. I remember being rather scared as a kid in the hospital, but also remember that because of my asthma, there were things I missed …

My Rollercoaster Ride to an Asthma Diagnosis

Phillip — Wed, 08 May 2013 15:03:11 +0000

I have a friend who likes to laugh at how complex my life is, she says that normally a person would go to their doctor and say they have breathing difficulties, the doctor would then conduct a few tests and their asthma diagnosis would be handed to them on a plate. Not me, it took me a little over four years to finally secure my diagnosis of asthma.

I guess I should explain a little bit more.

I believe I have had asthma since the Spring of 2008 so since I was 11, almost 12. I remember having hard time …

Training and Racing with Asthma for Endurance Sports

Phillip — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 19:39:50 +0000

I’ve been asked recently how I manage my asthma around all my training/racing and heard others chatting about it as well. So, I figured I could share my experience and my plan so that it will hopefully be helpful for others out there who are dealing with asthma.

Since I started wearing my “I Beat Asthma” t-shirt to all my races and to the gym I’ve been approached many times with stories of asthma and learned that this disease impacts far more people that I ever knew it affected. This has inspired me even more to #BeatAsthma every day and …

Allergy Tests are Crucial to Asthma Management

Phillip — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 19:29:05 +0000

When a child comes through the door of a Mobile C.A.R.E. Asthma Van for the first time, the appointment will likely take between 45 minutes and an hour. Our healthcare providers are by no means especially slow about their work—they can pack in more than a dozen appointments each during a typical school day—but because asthma management has a number of moving parts, we must be very thorough before forming a management strategy. A failure to consider even one element can undermine all of our other efforts.

Nowhere is thoroughness more necessary than with allergies. If you look at the …

Living with Asthma During the Winter

Phillip — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 21:32:36 +0000

How many of my fellow asthma sufferers have struggled with cold weather induced attacks? How many readers have noticed your children struggling more during the winter? From my experience not everyone with asthma is impacted by cold in the same way. But, the ones that struggle with cold weather like me and my daughter can relate and hopefully learn from this post.

As a kid, cold weather really gave me fits with my asthma. Friends would play, teams would practice and I would suffer. I’d do my best to keep up, but when it feels like someone is pouring lava …

Yes … I Was Embarrassed To Use My Inhaler

Phillip — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 22:53:31 +0000

They always say it’s not easy being a teenager. The “image” you give off in your teenage years means everything to you at the time, and everyone just wants to fit in. Yet sometimes, there are obstacles that we face in our teenage years that we refuse to let get in the way of us fitting in because we believe that people will view us differently. One instance that may ring true for many asthmatic patients is the fear that people will either undermine us because we have a physical condition, or view us as strange for using a little …

Asthma Caused More Than Just A Change In Routine

Phillip — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 19:23:01 +0000

My name is Allison White, and I have had asthma my whole life. It’s always triggered by a sinus infection, which causes bronchitis and then, there goes my asthma flaring up. I’m used to having problems a couple of times a year. But since November of 2011, I have been on antibiotics and prednisone 7 times and had a 5 day hospitalization in May of this year. My asthma seemed to be getting worse. It was time to step up my doctors and my treatment.

My new pulmonologist quickly figured out I was HIGHLY allergic to several things, especially to …

Asthma Educators Save Money (and Lives)

Phillip — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 16:09:13 +0000

“We need to get the word out there,” Maybell Hoskins says. “If parents don’t know, they can’t help their child.”

Maybell has been an Asthma Educator with the Mobile C.A.R.E. Foundation Asthma Van for 14 years. She coordinates patient visits, teaches children how to prevent asthma attacks, and explains triggers to parents and local teachers. She is a local fixture in a community where 25% of children have asthma.

“People come up and tell me, ‘I had to take this child to the hospital every month. Since coming to see you, I don’t have to do that now.’ That’s rewarding.”…