Archive for April 2006

Complaining columnists

Apr 27th, 2006 | By | Category: Ireland

I have been struggling with a chest infection and then asthma for the past number of weeks. I have had asthma since I was five years old and this has been the worst it has been in fifteen years. I’ve been to the doctor three times and have been getting by with a cocktail of steroids, antibiotics, inhalers and pain killers.

But this is a good time and a good place to have asthma.

When I was a child there was very little medication. I remember the terror of facing