The City And The Little Boy's Lungs

Wednesday, September 28, 2011 - 12:20 in Health & Medicine

One evening last spring, Peter nearly stopped breathing.He was riding in the car with his mother, April, who was taking the 11-year-old boy back from a visit to the ER for one of his chronic asthma attacks. He seemed to be getting better — and then his throat began to constrict. He began to wheeze loudly. He rolled his head back to get more air."That was wrong. 'He should be better than this by now,' I remember thinking. I knew something was wrong then," April recalls. "They had given him some meds and the usual advice, but it was not working." read more

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