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Take Control of Asthma: How one young athlete took back her life – and her sport, part II

Taken from the story, A Winning Season
Breathe Better, Live in Wellness: Winning your Battle Over Shortness of Breath
©Copyright Jane M. Martin.  Infinity Publishing, 2003

 

Jennifer Smith, a college student and award-winning tennis player who has asthma, shared her story at our annual asthma education event. Here is the conclusion of that story, as she told it that day.
 
Read Part I for the beginning of Jennifer's story.

…I had hit my rock bottom point and right then and there I decided...

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