Learning to Live with Asthma
As the family’s first child of his generation, my nephew Eric was everyone’s favorite. He used to be a blue-eyed chubby angel, and we couldn’t do without him around. One night he woke up from his sleep and couldn’t breathe. A trip to the ER told us what we weren’t ready to hear. Eric was diagnosed with asthma. “Asthma changes your life but does not need to limit your life” Today, ten years later, Eric is a healthy young boy with as healthy and active a lifestyle as any other boy in his class. But on that night in the ER, we could scarcely imagine how we would help Eric cope with his illness. Not only has Eric learned to work around asthma, but he now takes it in his stride. The last ten years have been a learning curve for Eric and everyone around him. I think we have learnt a great deal and by sharing it we hope others will learn as much. “Over 235 million people across the world suffer from asthma” Asthma is commonly seen in children and in many cases, it subsides with age. However, with millions of patients, the disease stays and can even progress.
