Then I developed asthma and had breathing problems for years. Close to death, but never quite there. In second grade my parents told me that one of my classmates had died – he had choked on a glass of water. I couldn’t imagine such a thing before that. Perhaps that was the moment...
It ravaged my digestive system, caused the dormant asthma to flare up and made my well exercised calf muscles feel like concrete. And when after a couple of days I was feeling well, it came back again. But many in the UK were similarly bothered at this time; in fact some where far ...
In my case, it’s to protect me in the wake of my recent heart surgery, and keep me from the risk of pneumonia on top of asthma and post-anesthesia breathing issues. All this was getting underway as I entered the hospital, and ten days later was in high gear in North Carolina, ...