Kerri MacKay

One day when starting a new Spiriva Respimat inhaler, I thought back to many years ago when I first started using this inhaler device, and how it was the first inhaler and my...

Most of us with asthma have a pretty definite preference for the type of inhaler device we use. I often find it disappointing that new medicines are not formulated in...

I recently posted a prompt in an asthma discussion group that I moderate about books with characters that have asthma. Forgetting I had written an article about this in 2016...

A few years ago, the mom of a young woman I had provided respite care for off and on texted me with some questions about asthma. Her daughter was having...

For months, I have looked at my rescue inhalers...and their expiration dates...and kept using them anyways. Months might be an understatement. Years. In fact, I have repeatedly looked at old...

There are some things I am like a broken record about. Forgetting to take my nasal sprays, why the heck are people using fax machines STILL, and why don't they...

Last summer, a new market space opened up just outside of my town, with a gorgeous rustic vibe and 2 rows of smaller shops from local vendors and restaurants. It...

Over the last 15 years living with severe asthma and other chronic health issues that followed, I have developed some pretty strong health advocacy and communication skills with my care...

It has already happened once this summer, but for the second time, a dramatic air quality drop from wildfire smoke has thrown me off my otherwise generally well-controlled asthma game!...

When I was diagnosed with asthma in grade 11 I had several friends who also had asthma. While our asthma was different (I would later learn I had severe asthma...

Most recently, the Discovery Plus show I got sucked into watching every episode of was Hotel Impossible, in which host and hospitality expert, Anthony Melchiorri, goes to hotels that are...

The first weekend in June I went to Pride Winnipeg for the first time, and my first time at a pride festival! It was shaping up to be our hottest...

Editor's Note: This is the second article in a 2 part series. Read the first article here. In my early days of asthma in Winter 2008, I no longer had...

For many years, I could only gaze upon doctors who used technology to communicate with their patients between visits with envy. While I can only communicate with 3 of my...

Back in September, my asthma specialist and I decided it was time to do allergy tests again. It had been 10 or 12 years since my last tests were done...

For more than a year and a half, I have had what is apparently, as I have been told, chronic pelvic pain. Just like shortness of breath—or dyspnea, the subjective...

At 12:10 am, I send the following text to Dia: "Omg I’ve had a cough/super mild shortness of breath for like...2.5 days... Guess who just realized her Qvar sounded like...

I was recently at a virtual event focused around people with severe asthma and treatment options. Over the last several years, more options in the category called "triple therapies" are...

I was scrolling through some asthma topics recently and asthma action plans came up. An asthma action plan is just what it sounds like: instructions to follow when you are...