“A minute or two into the nebs, he just didn’t seem right so we took the mask off and he just wasn’t right,” says Selina. “People tend to say ‘it’s just asthma’ but there are some kids, and my Con was one of them, where it wasn’t ‘just asthma’, it was fatal asthma in the end,” says Selina. However, “even with the best asthma care, some asthma deaths are unavoidable”. It is in support of the society’s recent Asthma Awareness Week (May 1st-8th) that Selina is giving this her first media interview. Aside from the fatal asthma attack, she can remember only one previous alarming episode, which had been managed speedily.

Source: The Irish Times May 11, 2021 05:01 UTC