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JanMichael

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12. I had childhood asthma in the '70s. It was scary.
Mon Jun 2, 2025, 09:09 PM
Jun 2025

The only thing that would stop an attack were the capsules with red and white tiny pills they would break open and dump over ice cream. Then there was the nebulizer, ugh.

Then asthma left me at 12 years old. It came back in my early 30's. By then inhalers were everywhere.

Inhalers were fantastic.

I could get 3 for 21 dollars at Costco in the early 2000's.

Now they are 40 bucks WITH good insurance.

I try to stockpile them too. Have one in the car, one at work, one in my spouses purse.

I don't get bad attacks but it's always in the back of my mind when I hear faint wheeze.

If you stop breathing you die. Asthma meds should never be cost prohibitive.

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