Write An Essay On My Asthma

My father, Jason Katcher was my Coach for nine years. We have had our ups and our downs. Through all these years of sports there are these unfathomable moments in time that will be frozen in to my mind. One of these moments was for the championship in a football tournament. My team and I needed a touchdown to when the game. I hear the fans screaming, my heart is pounding, the other team is nervous, I look up less than ten seconds left, forty-five yards to go, I look left I look right like I do before every play and then I look at my coach.

“Final call girl’s four by eight-hundred-meter relay” called the official. The Ontario Track girl’s four by eight-meter team trooped up to lane one, in unison. I would not have wanted to be racing with anyone else but my relay family. We had trained all season for this one race. Every workout, asthma attack, tear, and shin splint has lead up to this one race to break a twenty year old school record. As we jogged with the official from the bullpen to the starting line, the crowd had uproars of excitement for the athletes. An immense smile grew across my face, not only from the ecstatic crowd, but from the anticipation to race. I approached the starting line, in the first lane, while my teammates arrayed along the fence with the other second,

R.J. is a 15-year-old boy with a history of asthma diagnosed at age 8. His asthma episodes are triggered by exposure to cats and various plant pollens. He has been using his albuterol inhaler 10 to 12 times per day over the last 3 days and is continuing to wheeze. He normally needs his inhaler only occasionally (2 or 3 times per week). He takes no other medications and has no other known medical conditions. Physical examination reveals moderate respiratory distress with a respiratory rate of 32, oximetry 90%, peak expiratory flow rate (PEFR) 60% of predicted, and expiratory wheezing.

Asthma Attack – An asthma attack is a sudden worsening of asthma symptoms caused by the tightening of muscles around the airways. During an asthma attack, the lining of the airways also become swollen or inflamed and thicker mucus, more than normal, is produced. All of these factors, cause symptoms of an asthma attack such as difficulty breathing,

I must acknowledge I do not exactly remember. It was during a Field Hockey game where we had no substitutes and the other team was brutal. In total I was collided with three times that game. The first blow was insignificant. The other girl only bumped the side of my head. The second and third time occurred virtually simultaneously. An aggressive girl and I both went for the ball at the same time and rammed my head straight on and she pushed me back then so I clobbered onto the ground, smacking the back of my head on the ground. After the girl was carded for rough play I continued to stay in the game because as I said earlier, we had no substitutes. I continued on the field, very confused, and quite nauseous. After the game I told my coach how I felt. She did not give much attention to the problem because she did not believe I was hit that hard. Going home, I called my father to tell him how I felt. My speech was slurred and my thinking process was not clear. I could not tell him what happened in straight sentences. I had long pauses in between my single thoughts. Getting home that night my parents still pushed me to do my Calculus homework. Looking at the textbook, I was completely lost. Even more lost than normal. I could barely remember what the equations and symbols meant. The next day I went to the doctors and I left with an official diagnosis of a

Shortly after that, in a practice game, a game I wasn’t going to play in ended up being the last game of my career, ending with three torn ligaments and severe structural damage to my left knee. Leaving me on crutches for six weeks, leading into four months of extensive physical therapy, a place that I learned to hate and love, both at the same time. Then my world came crumbling down around me, I was driving home after picking my brother up from a friends house, I never saw it, a truck apparently had hit a car, two cars in front of me. The car directly in front of me went into the back of that car, and then my world went black. I woke up in a car filed with smoke, the airbags had

It was a warm and sunny day. The bleachers were filled with people tentatively watching and cheering on the athletes. I sat anxiously chewing on my nails, awaiting the result of the 3rd down. I watched as my favorite athlete caught the ball and began running down the sideline. I jumped up on my feet screaming at the top of my lungs "Go, Go, Go". He ran past the 50 yard line. My heart began beating so fast, I thought it was going to jump out of my chest and land on my lap. Then he ran down the 40 yard line. My eyes started to sting because I refused to blink and miss one second. 30. My hands started trembling anxiously. 20. I started to feel the excitement bubble in the pit of stomach. 10. My breathing started getting heavier. TOUCHDOWN!!!!! The athlete spiked the ball and began doing a victory dance. The crowd went absolutely wild. I was so ecstatic, I started to jump up and down.

All day I dreaded what was to come. At 3:15 the bell rang to dismiss us from the last hour of the day. I walked out of class, grabbed my bag, and joined my team on the bus to go to Florence. We pulled out of school and realized I was sweating bullets from being so nervous. I looked around realizing I was the only one so nervous. We approached the school as I took a deep breath. I walked into the locker room, put on my clothes, and walked to the field. As we started warm-ups I watched the other team warm-up. I got more and more nervous as I knew kickoff was

Everything was gone I went to my parents room and my brothers room and there was nothing there. I just thought they could be playing a trick on me, so I just went to my bedroom and got ready for school, as i walked down stairs and the furniture was all back where it had been the night before. I thought maybe I had just imagined the stuff being gone, so I got breakfast and started walking to school. I went to school and was trying to focus on nothing but the game, but it was hard because of what had happened this morning. It was so strange that one moment everything is gone then the next it’s all there. During PE I talked to my coach about what I had learned the night before from watching the film, I explained to him how the D end on the weak side was slow to react to a read play coming straight at him, and the strong safety liked to blitz around the edge so we could just dump it right were he would have been. He thought that would be a great idea to do if I could audibel into it on the field. To prepare for the game I drank two gallons of water throughout the day. The wait for the game made it seem like it would never come, but I knew when it did I would be ready. I just couldn’t get the thought of what had happened later that morning out of my mind, and I had a head splitting headache. The game was about to start know we were out on the

Breathing is a vital process for every human. Normal breathing is practically effortless for most people, but those with asthma face a great challenge. During an asthma attack, breathing is hampered, making it difficult or even impossible for air to flow through the lungs. Asthma is an increasingly common problem, and has become the most common chronic childhood disease. At least 17 million Americans suffer from it(1), and although it can be fatal, it is usually not that severe(4). There is no cure for asthma, but with proper care, it can usually be controlled.

Everything felt slow with just 45 more minutes until the game no one was ready yet. Everyone was moving around, no one could sit still. This was the first time that everyone has been in this kind of position. My coach came in and asked for the captains. Our captain looked around and picked me to go with him. With chills going down my neck I slowing walked out with him. On the field I can see so many lights shining, the ice cold air. Walking to the middle of the field my captain asked me to call the toss. I told him no but he told me he was too nervous to do it. Slowly walking towards the middle of the field we saw the other team’s captains. They were huge way bigger than me. The first strategy of football is to send your biggest guys to scare the other team. Well they did it to perfection to six foot guys that looks

The chills creep up my spine, uncomfortably I notice every single person there was watching my every move. We were going head-to-head with the Vikings, they did very well at intimidating our team to death, but inside I knew we could try. They had some tall buffy people that didn't seem afraid that our dignity was high and on the line. We couldn't waste it here, right now. Next, a loud Screech the referee blew her whistle, and at that moment we knew it was time. We played as if it was the Olympics, even though it was just for fun.Then, the ball went all over the court back and forth meanwhile the crowd screaming, cheering, and excitedly saying, “Go Huskies!”

Throughout the years knowledge about asthma has grown, as well as treating it effectively. Over 300 million people are said to be victims of this disease with another 100 million being estimated by 2025 globally (Currie and Baker, 2012). In the United Kingdom, asthma is increasingly becoming one of the leading disease affecting individual of different age, ethnicity, race and gender. British Lung Foundation (2011) stated that it is more common at childhood stage and can also occur at a later age. According to Asthma UK (2014) asthma in men is less prevalence than it is in women and children troubled more with asthma than adults. Recent data in the UK shows that in children and occupational asthma in adult is on the rise with an estimate

Our car rolled and bounced along the grey and dusty gravel road that reeked of gasoline and exhaust. Finally, we came to the entrance of the patchy green fields to start my first practice. I soon learned that there would be no need to be nervous as we all worked hard on this team and all became friends and were very serious about the sport. Every week we attended the five hours of practice and worked our butts off every practice. Finally, It became time to talk about our first games together that were that weekend. Before practice started coach pulled us aside and talked to us about the tourney. We were excited and prepared, but I think all of us were a little nervous. When we got to the tournament we warmed up for our game and and did some quick warm up drills. The game started and my chest was pounding out of my chest thumping so hard I could feel every beat. FWEEE! The whistle sounded and our team advanced on the field passing and running around. The ball was passed to me and I panicked and passed it right back. I realized that I needed to calm down so took a little break on the bench and settled down and got back out on the

                  Asthma is a disease which affects the airways of the lungs, causing a kind of wheezing whenever an individual breathes, coughing, and you would run out of breathe a lot quicker than an individual without asthma. The