Drink to that

Here's to practically two Christmases and New Years without bursting a lung. I'm pointing at you Seretide. I don't miss it though especially now that I don't have a medical benefit and quite sick of a yearly shot of corticosteroid to ease my breathing. Asthma isn't a fun way to kill oneself. For one, it requires a long and painful suffering. Two, gasping for air is no graceful way of kicking the bucket. Anyway, I remember being rushed to the ER in 2008 and 2009 for just that. The second year of that blasted episode, I was diagnosed by a resident of having pneumonia that had forced me to purchase killer antibiotics. Dad forced me to get a new specialist, pronounced pneumonia free albeit not bronchitis free, then shoved for a pulmonary function test. Let me tell you, boy was it torture to the sixth degree. I have to emphasize that I was still recuperating therefore I could still not breathe properly then I undergo breathing tests where I had to ensure cutting and holding my breathe against air pressure and all that jazz. Results obviously showed weak lungs but I have to give it to my still healing state. Steroid still saves my arse after all these years. I guess there won't be another substance out there to replace it while I'm still alive.