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Soooooo, turns out I haven't been wimping out! **Warning, boring medical stuff**

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So, in the few weeks leading up to graduation, and since, my asthma had increasingly been a real problem. I have chronic hayfever and sinuses on top of this, and the pollen has been insane in London the past few months, so all this was written off as that, and I took to doing my runs increasingly early in the morning, obsessively monitoring the Met Pollen forecast, doing yoga on my rest days, taking more rest days in between runs, upping my asthma and hayfever meds etc...and eventually nothing was working, and in fact was getting worse. ** I have to add, I was being very, very careful and only went out to run on days when I felt I was ok, and stopped the very second I wasn't. ** So I was given a pretty hasty referral to one of the new Respiratory Hot Clinics and guess what? I have been running with not only scarring from probable COVID (was tested, don't have it now, but was sick way back in Jan/Feb, before we thought COVID was in the UK) and have a lung infection on top of that...! So, currently having all of this nuked out of me with some powerful meds, and taking a good, good rest. But looking forward to getting back out to properly do my consolidation when actually have two fully functioning lungs. As my Consultant said, "Imagine how fast you will be when you can breathe!". So, if anyone else is having problems with your asthma, do take it seriously, and it might be worth checking in with your Dr again. Hope you are all very, very well. xxx

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OH MY GOODNESS!!! After all of your struggling to get through this... no wonder why you couldn’t breathe. I’ve said this before to you... your are a fighter and a very determined person! Running with poorly lungs... you are amazing! As the Dr said, imagine the speed that you will be able to run when your better?? Incredible, very well done to you!!!

⭐️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (5 stars isn’t nearly enough)

Get well soon 💐

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Bloomsbury22 in reply toJaxO

Thank you! I’m feeling better already finally knowing what was wrong and hitting it on the head! Thanks for all the support all along xxx

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JeanneMary

Crikey! Poor you. What an eventful 2020 you are having! I hope you feel on top form very soon. X

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Bloomsbury22 in reply toJeanneMary

Thank you! X

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Buddy34Graduate10

So glad you got yourself checked out . I hope your medication sorts everything out and you are feeling better soon.

Take care 🤗

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Bloomsbury22 in reply toBuddy34

Thank you! X

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EThomasGraduate10

On my gosh. Hope you feel better soon. The fact that you graduated with all of this going on is an amazing achievement. Now you are on treatment the only way is onwards and upwards.

Get well soon.

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Bloomsbury22 in reply toEThomas

Thank you! My thoughts exactly. All will be cleared up very soon and onwards and upwards x

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GrannyhugsGraduate10

Oh my, how awful for you. So glad you got that diagnosis and are now on treatment. Take care and best wishes for a speedy recovery 🤗

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Bloomsbury22 in reply toGrannyhugs

Thank you! X

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Foxglove2Graduate10

Wow! Well done for getting it checked out x

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Bloomsbury22 in reply toFoxglove2

Thanks. I feel much better now knowing what it is and getting it fixed x

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Foxglove2Graduate10 in reply toBloomsbury22

I bet. You've set me thinking. I have asthma and it's very well managed (I've had it for years). I may have had Covid in March - if so it was very mild. I wheeze like anything when running. Not anythign like your symptoms, but still ... you have set me thinking.

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