My Life as an Asthma Mom

Like many of you, I visited family graves during Memorial Day.  As we visited the graves of my dad and other family members who fought in World War II, I shared memories with my family.  My great uncle served in World War II (and suffered lasting consequences which took his life). He was buried near his wife and their four infants.  They had lost all four babies back in the late 1930's and early 1940's due to the HR factor.  Cleveland Clinic says: Rh incompatibility happens when a woman who's RH-negative is pregnant with a baby who is RH-positive. The woman's immune system reacts to this difference and makes antibodies. The antibodies then attack the baby's red blood cells (because the woman's body thinks the RH positive blood cells are an invader It's important to know your blood type BEFORE you become pregnant. If not treated, babies can have hemolytic anemia, liver failure, jaundice or heart failure, which can result in a stillbirth.   Now they hav...

    Have you been coughing so hard from an asthma attack that you threw up? Or almost threw up? That happened to me yesterday.   I have NO idea what caused it, but tree and grass pollen are out, so I don't know if that made my lungs cranky.  I was coughing so hard that I had tears running down my face. And I could barely keep my hands still to fill up my medicine cup and turn on the nebulizer for a breathing treatment.   When I cough that hard, it is impossible for me to use an inhaler. I literally cannot inhale deep enough to use an inhaler.   I need to just sit there on the couch while I breath in the mist from my nebulizer.   Paroxysmal cough   What is paroxysmal cough?   Cleveland Clinic says:  "Paroxysmal cough is an uncontrollable coughing fit. It’s often violent and keeps you from getting a breath. You might gag, vomit or even pass out."  I panicked last night when I had a paroxysmal cough. I ...