Why Can't I breathe!?!?!

Fat People Disorders.

Asthma.  I never had asthma.  Last fall I was hospitalized with cellulitis in my left leg.  Yeah, the left leg that had has the knee replaced.  I had fallen in June and received a nasty bruise  and battled edema ever since. 

Who knows why I got cellulitis but I did.  Here is a pic of that lovely incident.

Anyways.  While in the hospital for this just getting and forth from the bathroom was a struggle to breathe.  It was horrible.  I mentioned it but no one seemed to care.

I get home from the hospital and walking from my car to my front door is unbearable.  It is at a slight incline.  I can’t breathe!  I am out of breath all the time.  What the heck!  So at my follow up I ask my doctor and he tells me that I have probably developed asthma.  Adult onset asthma brought on by, you guessed it OBESITY! Because why else.  I was then ordered to have 2 different inhalers.  At first I had to use one every morning and every night, and the other one 4 times a day.   During the first couple of months I had a few asthma attacks – fun times!

After a couple of months I no longer had to be so strict with the inhaler use.  Then I got pneumonia in January.  So, I went back onto the inhalers for a bit.

Of course maybe if I didn’t have 20 pounds of tits on my lungs I could breathe better. Oh wait, they wouldn’t be there if I wasn’t fat!  SEEEE….it is all because I’m fat!

Generally, the asthma doesn’t cause too much trouble but there are things that cause it to flare up.  I carry my inhaler with me just in case, well, most of the time.

So here is another thing I will be able to cross off my list when I start to lose weight.  No more asthma.  Being able to breathe!  Exercising is hard when you can’t breathe.  And believe it or not my 300 pound @$$ does exercise.  Granted not as often as it should but it does do it. It may not be pretty but I do it.