Living

It's that time of year again. Allergy season has already started and my family of 5 is miserable. It's only February, so how are seasonal allergies here ALREADY?! Is that...

I normally don’t discuss what happens at my doctor visits. If you are a regular follower of mine you know that’s not true. As a writer and asthma advocate, I...

I go through phases in what I choose for reading material that can best be broken into themes. With some other random things thrown in, the 170 books I’ve read...

"Maybe you just need some fresh air." If you have asthma, this might be a phrase that someone has said to you while you were experiencing an asthma flare-up or...

“If you had one wish, would you wish you never had asthma?” I have been asked this question, or some version of it, many times in my life. I have...

Are you listening? The question that I have wanted to ask my doctor on a couple of occasions. This question can be the source of a great amount of frustration...

Have you ever heard of FeNO testing for asthma? It is a type of test that was recently endorsed by the updated Asthma Treatment Guidelines. A national panel of many...

As an asthma educator, I am always on the lookout for any information that could help other people. My latest attempt to expand my knowledge was listening to a webinar...

As an exercise science nerd, I am very excited about the field of exercise immunology. You may be asking yourself what exercise immunology may be. Exercise immunology looks at the relationship...

I’m sure you have that one person you work with, or maybe a family member or friend, that drenches themselves in some sort of fragrance. More often than not, it...

Sadly, yes, you can die from an asthma attack. Every day in America, 10 people die from asthma. Many of you reading this may have lost a friend or loved...

I have now been blogging since October of 2007. Since then, my first post every year has been about exercise, dieting, and/or getting in shape. After finishing last year’s post...

Sometimes writer's block leads to great experiments. Tonight, staring at a blank Evernote window after scrolling Google News for inspiration, I tweeted the following: Twitter, i’m trying to write a...

Back in 1985, I spent time in an asthma hospital. One day I attended a class about asthma. The attendees were me and about eight other teenage asthmatics. At one...

For those having a difficult time getting pregnant, there are several courses one can take to have children, all thanks to modern medicine. Apart from natural conception, one has the...

Are you wondering what the heck a long-acting muscarinic antagonist (LAMA, for short) even is? If so, I had the same thought first time I heard that term. Turns out...

I have been on a recent quest to wrap my head around lung immunity for a couple of reasons. I was so pleased to stumble upon an amazingly quick and...

I have written in the past more times than I can count about how asthma is not a “one-size-fits-all” disease. There are such a wide variety of symptoms and no...

Like all asthma, severe asthma isn't just one "thing." Just as asthma itself can be mild, moderate, severe, allergic, non-allergic, exercise-induced, not exercise-induced--the fancy term for the differences experienced between...

I watched the movie Wonder Woman 1984 with a friend. After watching it, my friend and I discussed it. I said it was nostalgic in a way, with the now...