Competitive asthmatics

As subcultures go, we are a pretty pathetic lot.

Maybe decades of conversations with people who claim breathing/ENT issues (as opposed to having been clinically diagnosed and annually rediagnosed with asthma for 50 years) makes us a wee bit defensive.

But some establishing of credentials can sound a bit ridiculous. It’s almost like “Who’s got the bigger asthma?”

“Well, I have a rescue inhaler.”

“Me, too.”

“And a daily steroid inhaler.”

“Me, too.”

“Well, I have to go in for exhalation tests because my pulmonary air flow shows I am at risk for emphysema.”

“Check. What else ya got?”

We ought to just say, “Look, I’ll show my prescriptions if you show me yours.”