The Introduction

Ok, so first a bit about me before I get into the 'story' of my asthma life up to this point.
I'm 18 and I live in a small town in North Derbyshire with my twin sister, parents and hamster. I'm studying for my A Levels in maths, biology and chemistry and want to be a doctor. I did apply for medicine this year, however having undiagnosed, and hence uncontrolled, asthma messed up my grades and interviews. Basically I was too tired to concentrate and couldn't think straight. More on that later. I'm now hopefully going to embark on a medical sciences degree in September :)

I'm writing this blog a week before my first appointment with the asthma nurse. I don't know anyone with asthma and my family don't seem that interested. I have so many questions that I can't find the answers to and, in all honesty, I'm scared. The purpose of this blog is to share my experiences of diagnosis , treatment and life with asthma in general. I know there must be thousands of these, but, well... here's another. I'll hopefully be able to answer my questions as I go through the motions and then the answers will be avaliable for everyone else, because they're on here.

Please be patient with me though- I am awful when it comes to technology! Feel free to ask me anything, I'll answer honestly!