So I hadn't been to the gym in almost a week due to various life and holiday stuff, and by today I was ITCHING to get back in the gym. I was afraid that I would have lost any of the progress I'd made over the first few weeks, but well, if that had happened then it was time to start rebuilding ( Read more... )

Normally I love summer. I love it, can't get enough of the heat, happy as a clam in the sand, all that.

This year? The heat is aggravating the hell out of my asthma. A picture from this Hyperbole and a Half post basically sums it up:

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Younger Spawn thought it would be a brilliant idea to hide a plastic bin in the oven. Since I'm an idiot who keeps forgetting about his obnoxious new habit, I started preheating the oven for dinner without checking inside first. Fifteen or twenty minutes later, I started hearing that distinctive thfweeee! sound of burning plastic as it drips down, ( Read more... )

A little over a year ago I started doing the Couch25k program. I made it about three weeks in and then discovered that my legs were starting to hurt like hell. That was because I'd been running in my crappy sneakers, and the impact was starting to wreck my feet and knees ( Read more... )

Still sick, tired, dreading work. Also can't breathe well, to the point where I'm going to use my inhaler for the first time in a couple months. That's about it.

For the past week I have been in Symbicort Hell. I've had a continual vicious headache that has basically kept me on the couch or in bed, as well as other wondrous side effects such as aching teeth, dizziness and muscle weakness, and mild anxiety. I went out to a friend's wedding nine days ago and that is pretty much the last time I've been able to ( Read more... )

Since everyone egged me on so much I decided to go to the doctor even at the risk of looking like a doof, and my respirologist was nice enough to see me this afternoon for a few minutes. I went in and ran down the facts: been feeling short of breath for days now, Symbicort not helping other than the very first time I took it, pneumonia last month. ( Read more... )

I've been up since 5:30 AM with a baby that seemed to be sick and is now acting pretty much fine. Of course I'm still exhausted as fuck. But more importantly, despite two doses of the Symbicort (which is that combined asthma medication - the Ventolin inhaler didn't do shit for me twice in a row and I got desperate enough to start the Symbicort ( Read more... )

Saw the respirologist today. It especially sucked because Gavin woke up with a Siriuz Fever - I'd scheduled the appointment so it would occur while he was in school and I wouldn't have to bring him, but he was too sick to go to school. He was also too sick to walk, so I had to put Gavin in the stroller and sling Connor. Twenty-minute walk there ( ( Read more... )

The methacholine challenge was fuckin' weaksauce. They're supposed to test you with up to 16mG of methacholine in the nebulizer (they increase the dosage 1 or 2 mG each time, depending on how you're tolerating it, until they hit a top dose of 16mG). They had to stop my test after only 4mG because I was reacting so severely. :( Damn. They had to ( Read more... )