Asthma is a strange beast!

Asthma is one wily little devil. 

 

It seems people think 'no big deal - give use your albuterol inhaler' and that will cure everything!

 

 Not exactly.

Asthma seems to change over time and wax and wane. 

 

It can be hard to figuring out what your asthma triggers as those can also change over time. 

 

I was shopping for a baby gift last week at a local retail store and suddenly felt my chest tighten up and the hard cough starting. 

 

I have no idea what happened! Was there a dusty shelf? Chemical sizing on the baby towel I bought? Something too fragrant in the baby shampoo aisle? Something on the aisle where I bought the rubber duck?

I was fine once I used my inhaler and left the store. I have shopped there for almost 15 years and never had a problem. Sometimes you can't figure out why you had an asthma attack. 

Sometimes, I'm so busy, it takes a few minutes to dawn on me that I'm having a hard time breathing and getting that 'twitchy' feeling in my throat. Then the cough starts.

 

Then it's time for my albuterol inhaler. 

The hardest thing about summer is having a smoothie, otter pop, or any sort of iced treat. Since one of my asthma triggers is cold temperatures, I start coughing when I eat or drink anything cold. 

I usually have to hand over my smoothie to my sweet hubby after a couple of swallows of the smoothie. That seems to be my limit. It must be from the ice in the smoothie. 

 

I have found that by eating ice cream VERY slowly, I can enjoy my all time favorite - chocolate peanut butter ice cream. 

 

Asthma can impact a lot of things in my life. 

 

Sadly, asthma is inherited in our family. Thanks mom and dad for passing asthma on to me!

 

Then what do I do? Pass it on to all 3 of my kids. 

 

More about them later.