Put away your peak flow meters! It’s Danielle’s amazing cornflakes asthma-meter!
Posted Aug 14 2009 6:48pm
Like many seasoned asthmatics, I often get pretty tight without noticing it or without being too bothered by it. I can go about my business as usual, but there’s always one thing that makes me notice how I’m actually breathing: eating. Especially, as it so happens, my morning bowl of cereal. (I guess I’m just more normally tight in the mornings?)
Sometimes I will get myself a bowl of cereal (I’m into mini-wheats these days) and halfway through realize that I am nearly bent in half over the breakfast table and using my accessory muscles to breathe. I’ll sometimes notice that I have to stop chewing to try and take a breath. And, I usually don’t feel like finishing when this happens. Only then will I say to myself “Um, I guess I actually *am* very tight over here” and only then will I feel like doing something about it. Go figure.
If you’re too tight to eat but don’t notice until you try to eat, that’s not good. On the other hand I start to think that oh well if you don’t feel bad then you must not be doing badly so it’s a non-issue. But somehow that sounds slightly off. Peak flow meters are a very good thing in this regard, forget what my title says.
As you can probably tell from this post, I’m still having trouble with the lungs. Doubled-up pulmicort, do your thing! My presentation at the university is today. I’m sure I’ll be fine, I’ve practiced it several times in front of my colleagues. I just hope talking for 10 minutes doesn’t have the same effect as cereal-eating for me today.
Like many seasoned asthmatics, I often get pretty tight without noticing it or without being too bothered by it. I can go about my business as usual, but there’s always one thing that makes me notice how I’m actually breathing: eating. Especially, as it so happens, my morning bowl of cereal. (I guess I’m just more normally tight in the mornings?)
Sometimes I will get myself a bowl of cereal (I’m into mini-wheats these days) and halfway through realize that I am nearly bent in half over the breakfast table and using my accessory muscles to breathe. I’ll sometimes notice that I have to stop chewing to try and take a breath. And, I usually don’t feel like finishing when this happens. Only then will I say to myself “Um, I guess I actually *am* very tight over here” and only then will I feel like doing something about it. Go figure.
If you’re too tight to eat but don’t notice until you try to eat, that’s not good. On the other hand I start to think that oh well if you don’t feel bad then you must not be doing badly so it’s a non-issue. But somehow that sounds slightly off. Peak flow meters are a very good thing in this regard, forget what my title says.
As you can probably tell from this post, I’m still having trouble with the lungs. Doubled-up pulmicort, do your thing! My presentation at the university is today. I’m sure I’ll be fine, I’ve practiced it several times in front of my colleagues. I just hope talking for 10 minutes doesn’t have the same effect as cereal-eating for me today.
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