I had suffered from asthma for a large part of my life. To this day, I still have an emergency inhaler incase a situation like that would arise. As a child, my asthma was problematic as I lived in an apartment that made my asthma worse. I was constantly surrounded by dust and that apartment contained rodents and cockroaches which weren’t good for me. The culmination of this led to my asthma attack in 2003 when I was bedridden in a hospital for weeks. Following that, my school at the time had informed me of a program in my school I can enroll in which was the American Lung Society’s Open Airways for Schools. I was a part of this curriculum that had taught me about the understandings of asthma and it made me and my family more aware about asthma