Friday, 16 November 2012

An incredible wheeze...

Sometimes I find the human body to be a strange thing...
I've had asthma since I was knee high to a grasshopper but I've always, through a mixture of luck & prescription drugs, been able to, nore or less, keep it under control. There are times, however, when the pollen count is high, when the temperature suddenly drops, when the air is hot & dry, when I cough too hard, or for no obvious reason at all apart from the moon & tide are in alignment with Gallifrey, and it's at times like that that I almost sound like I'm back on forty cigarettes a day. Either that or a broken squeaky toy... Just ask my mate Andy who once thought that there was a steam train chasing him up & down hills at the 'Dundry Thunder Run'...
Over the course of the last week I have discovered that my body is strong but the lungs are weak. Twice, on two seperate runs, I had to stop and use my ventolin inhaler. That in itself is unusual - but the first time was on a fairly flat 6.5 mile run on a lunchtime, and the other was during a 4 mile 'easy run' on Thursday evening!! This really annoys me because I know that I can, and have, run race after race with no breathing difficulties whatsoever...
Why can't I buy a new set of lungs on Amazon? Preferably a set that don't come with a raspy wheeze setting...

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