Asthma

I spent more than 30 minutes in with the asthma nurse on Friday. This in itself is a small miracle as usually a surgery appointment is strictly 5 minutes and they are usually shoving you out the door with a magic pill as soon as you have listed your symptoms.

Not so with my extremely nice nurse Allison. After completing the diagnosis and confirming that yup I'm asthmatic, she spent ages talking about the disease, the treatments and reassuring me that dosing up on steroids will not give me muscles like Conan (boo) or a beard (yay!)

I had a several page sheet printed out for bedtime reading and was also pointed to Asthma uk which I'm going to explore later.

Now its just a matter of sorting out the right dose of the brown inhaler Beconase to control my symptoms.

I also asked about any issues with getting a pooch as its something we are considering at the moment and nope its no problem but would be wise to pick a non or low shedding breed.

I'm not having a poodle.