Can You Breathe?

Can you?

Today, I couldn't. Not the first time it's ever happened, but while out and about today... I found myself lacking in air intake.

Not cool. Not fun. A few times in the past, without any clear reason for it, I've found myself short on breath... sometimes even having trouble completing sentences without pausing for air. It's been really sporadic in the past, but it made me wonder if I had some kind of asthma going on.

I'll be the first to admit that I'm not in the greatest of shape, but I've played lots of basketball, football, etc., and I knkow what exertion-related shortness of breath feels like.

Today, while walking to Target (roughly a mile and a half or so away), the asthma sensation, the lack of breath hit me again. I'm used to walking long distances (though it's been a while since I've walked much distance in the heat), five mile walks are far from unheard of for me, so when I was not particularly pushing myself and found myself suddenly without air... well... that wasn't fun.

With a normal heart rate, no other sensation of exertion (barring the unavoidable sweat due to my hyperhidrosis), I suddenly went "oh crap... where's my oxygen?" multiple times between getting there... sitting there, hoping to recover... and coming back. From what I can tell, if this is actually asthma (and I'm pretty sure it is), then these instances are in the mild to loosely moderate range of attacks.

I would hate to have serious asthma attacks. I would hate that so much. My sympathies to anyone living with said attacks.

On the positive side, I'm seeing a doctor about this on Thursday.