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Take control of asthma: How one young athlete took back her life – and her sport

By Jane M. Martin, BA, LRT, CRT, Health Pro Monday, April 28, 2008
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   Read Part II of Jennifer Smith's Story Here   I invited Jennifer Smith, a college student and award-wi...
4/30/08 10:00pm

Thanks Jane for sharing this story.  It really is important - no matter what the symptoms - to seek medical guidance when they first start happening.  It pays to slow down and listen to our bodies and minds when they are trying to tell us something is wrong.  Thanks for  helping us to see that through this story.

 

All the best, sue (moderator)

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5/ 7/08 10:15am

iam really excited to know the rest of the story, it reminds me with my condition but till now i couldn't beat it i still use inhalors to ascend the upstairs ( but this is because iam not very complient patient although iam a medical student i don't take my control inhalor for the proper time, u know corticosteroids are immunosupressive and they cause me pharyngitis so i stop using them and that is really bad, that drives my doctor mad) also this proplem of taking the inhalors infront of everyone but i got over this cuz i truely had to it wasn't of my choice.

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By Jane M. Martin, BA, LRT, CRT, Health Pro— Last Modified: 06/20/12, First Published: 04/28/08