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Learning to live with asthma: two young brothers with the same chronic illness. One mother's struggle ... and what she knows now about keeping her children healthy.(GOOD FAMILY: FROM KIDS TO MONEY, WHAT TO KNOW NOW )
When I first learned that my older son had asthma, I imagined that it would go away in a few weeks or months. I clung to that bit of denial, I guess, because it helped ease the fear and sadness as reality sank in. Brian was only 3, and deep down my husband and I knew we were facing a serious chronic disease that would probably hang on for years, maybe even for the rest of his life.
It did hang on, and three years later, our younger son, Eric, also started to wake up at night with fits of coughing, wheezing, and choking. Both boys had a cluster of problems--asthma, eczema, and allergies to nuts, pollens, dust mites, and animals-that often go together and seem to ...
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