I have had asthma my entire life, and will likely have it until the day I die. It's never had too big an impact on me, mostly just making me short of breath when I do things like run or talk for a long period of time. And even that hasn't been a problem for me lately. Some of the newer medications that have come out in the past 7 years or so have helped me have more or less normal breathing.

That is... until about 2 months ago. For some reason that no doctor I've seen has been able to figure out, my medication has stopped working. Not only that, but I have been out of breath almost constantly for the past two months. My heart is beating much faster than normal. Even the smallest amount of strenuous activity forces me to sit down to breath. I'm coughing all the time. When it's at its worst, I wake up in the middle of the night, gasping for breath. Even the simplest of tasks, like sitting in front of a computer to type up a blog post, seems like a herculean effort. I have barely left my house over the past 2 months except to go to work. I mostly spend my free time playing video games these days. Granted, I did a lot of that before this started, but now it's just about all I can do. Even movies are hard to focus on when you're constantly being made aware of your breathing. It's probably because video games require more concentration that something like watching a movie does, but not much more effort, that helps me forget about what's going on at that moment. Since nothing else works to take my mind off things, I'd probably have gone crazy without gaming.

So that's my way of explaining why you haven't seen me around these parts recently. Until my situation improves, don't expect to see me on here too much. I know it's been hard coming to this site for the past couple of months without seeing any new posts from me, but try to be strong. You'll make it through this. I have faith in you