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

[Bloomsbury22]

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

[JaxO]

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 💐

[Bloomsbury22 in reply to JaxO]

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

[JeanneMary]

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

[Bloomsbury22 in reply to JeanneMary]

Thank you! X

[Buddy34 Graduate10]

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

Take care 🤗

[Bloomsbury22 in reply to Buddy34]

Thank you! X

[EThomas Graduate10]

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.

[Bloomsbury22 in reply to EThomas]

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

[Grannyhugs Graduate10]

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 🤗

[Bloomsbury22 in reply to Grannyhugs]

Thank you! X

[Foxglove2 Graduate10]

Wow! Well done for getting it checked out x

[Bloomsbury22 in reply to Foxglove2]

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

[Foxglove2 Graduate10 in reply to Bloomsbury22]

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.