“Fighting for breath is a terrifying experience, there are times my husband has been so worried about my health that he’s been forced to call an ambulance. I’ve spent weeks in hospital, away from my children - that’s hard to take.”
A mum-of-two is sharing her 20-year ordeal with asthma in a bid to raise awareness about the realities of life with severe asthma and how serious and terrifying the condition can be.
Jo Pond, 40, from Northenden, has been stuck in a vicious cycle of life-threatening asthma attacks and steroid tablet treatment for her severe asthma, which has landed her in hospital countless times since she was diagnosed with asthma aged 20. The primary school teacher was able to control her asthma for more than a decade, but after becoming pregnant with her first daughter her breathing rapidly deteriorated and she was diagnosed with severe asthma, the most serious type, eight years ago.
