My Asthma Story

The following is where I enter the history of asthma. 

Pithy versions of my story:

• Healthcentral.com: An Extended Stay for Asthma
• Asthma.net: My Asthma Story: The Pithy Version (coming soon)
• Hardluck Asthma: What's It Like to Have Asthma?
• Asthma.net: My harrowing Halloween Asthma Story

The Beginning: 

• 1970:  The beginning: Born with asthma genes
• 1976-2007: My Experience with Theophylline
• 1978:  Tedral and Brondecon
• 1979:  Tedral side effects
• 1979:  No antihistamines for this asthmatic
• 1979:  Asthma terror in a hotel room
• 1980:  My first asthma hospital experience 
• 1981:  My first rescue inhaler
• 1981:  Asthma Terror in a smoke filled room
• 1981:  Sus-Phrin: The greatest asthma medicine ever
• 1981:  Nursing caps and smoking nurses  
• 1981:  My first bad hospital experience  
• 1983:  Mom's voice and the nice respiratory therapist  
• 1983:  The mist tent and another nice respiratory therapist  
• 1984:  Struck down by the asthma beast  

7-Goodman: I was a patient at NJH/NAC from January 9, 1985 to May 15, 1985

• 1985:  My Good-bye Party
• 1985:  My journey to the Asthma Hospital
• 1985:  Pediatric Specialist Center
• 1985:  Tons of new meds at the Asthma Hospital
• 1985:  The flow of 7-Goodman 
• 1985:  The first field trip 
• 1985:  Mom's visit
• 1985:  My Introduction to Albuterol
• 1985:  The long walk of death
• 1985:  Sneaking away from the asthma hospital 
• 1985:  Asthma Group Sessions 
• 1985:  Careless Wisper and the field trips 
• 1985:  Dr. said: "Steroids will stunt your growth"

2-May: I was a patient from May 15, 1985, to July 15, 1985

• 1985:  The horror that was 2-May (part 1)
• 1985:  The horror that was 2-May (part 2)
• 1985:  The horror that was 2-may (part 3)
• 1985:  The horror that was 2-May (part 4)
• 1985:  The horror that was 2-May (part 5) or My drug addict room mate
• 1985:  The horror that was 2-May (part 6)
• 1985:  Julie: A good asthma friend
• 1985:  The flow of 2-May
• 1985:  The 2-May Pshchologist Jerk named Dr. Casey 
• 1985:  The counselors
• 1985:  Dad, David, and Torrin in the clunker car and the mountains
• 1985:  Mom, Clara, and Chico
• 1985:  Summer vacation, or sort of
  1985:  Warm weather means baseball
• 1985:  Making the best of it
• 1985:  Zane and Grant try to kill me, and dad pulls the plug
• 1985:  Happy days while looking forward to discharge
• 1985:  A bittersweet end of a bittersweet stay at the asthma hospital

Better days: I have lived a wonderful life ever since, and I owe a lot of my good fortune to all the wonderful people I met during my stay at NJH/NAC.  

• 1986:  Epinephrine and oxygen
• 1987:  So far so good
• 1988:  Off to college and the asthma seems to go away
• 1989:  I forgot my theophylline
• 1991:  Albuterol: The second greatest asthma medicine ever, and my first ER visit in six years
• 1993:  A return to the ER with my friends mom and Uncle Timmy
• 1994:  The end of the asthma hospital as I remember it
• 1995:  Respiratory Therapy School, My asthma friend, and her son
• 1997:  Another degree, and worse asthma
• 1997:  My worse ever asthma attack, and 10 day hospital admission
• 2000:  Asthma sucks, but life is great
• 2000:  Crystal and Jordan
• 2001:  How I still can't run in cold air, but I do anyway until I have this nasty asthma attack
• 2003:  Callie the great
• 2004:  Advair is the asthma cure
• 2007:  The death of theophylline, a lifelong friend
• 2007:  Three months without albuterol, and it seems my asthma is gone forever
• 2008:  Laney: My daughter with asthma just like mine? 
• 2010:  Myles: My son with eczema and allergies just like mine? 
• 2011:  My asthma beast returns at hunting camp
• 2012:  The asthma beast returns just when I thought it was cured
• 2013:  How I defeated exercise induced asthma
• 2016:  Constantly working to find the best medicine, and finally settling on Advair and Singulair

More to come...