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This article shows how to prevent,how to live,how to enjoy a disesae condition.

GOD BLESS YOU

When I read the title in my email I thought, "Well, I need to read this as it seemed a bit of a strethc to look at asthma as a benefit to anyone. Although the sentiments in the list of seven are things to strive for; not many people suffering with a disease as serious as asthma or copd or emphysema would consider their conditions "benefits". Imagine if you were a child with a life-long debilitating illness like asthma, or an elderly person barely able to breathe. You really need to be careful when addressing things to the population you are dealing with. This article had little sensitivity for the sufferer as it was written in what seemed to be rather glib sound-bites. I wonder of the author is an asthma sufferer. Because unless you've been through the near suffocating experience of having to rely on meds breathe, you would write with greater sensitivity and explanation. If the author does have a lung condition than perhaps they need to generate their own "empathy" in a greater fashion when writing such material. In any event, the editors of this site should also be more responsible about what is written here.

nscangal

4/23/10 8:13am

Rick Frea actually runs a blog entitled "Hardluck Asthma", about his own asthma. Check it out.

 

As to your other point, I don't think he was intending to be insensitive, but rather to point out that, although there are bad things about asthma, there are some good things.

 

As someone who's been everywhere on the asthma severity spectrum, both controlled and uncontrolled, I agree with what Rick has to say. Yeah, asthma can suck sometimes (and more than "sometimes" if you're uncontrolled - there was nothing at all pleasent about spending last summer too short of breath to walk up a flight of stairs), but it's not all bad. You learn some valuable lessons being asthmatic - like how to listen to your body, when you have to depend on others, and more importantly, that you can depend on others.