My health hasn’t been great lately, especially after I fell ill with pneumonia last year.
I felt like I was suffocating for two weeks straight while my body fought it off to the degree that it could.
Ever since then I’ve been using an inhaler whenever I have breathing problems, especially outdoors with all of the airborne allergens. It’s the beginning of the spring season and my car is already coated with green powder. It’s tree and flower pollen and it coats everything outdoors when it gets released at the beginning of the spring season every year. If you think it’s bad while it covers outside surfaces, just imagine what those green pollen particles do to your lungs when you breathe them in. I get congestion in both my lungs and my sinuses. Between my inhaler and my medicated nasal spray, I manage to survive. But this comes at a cost, because I feel exhausted physically and mentally when my immune system takes a huge hit from airborne allergens. This is what moved to buy a whole-house air purification system. I bought a media air purifier and a UV-light disinfection device. I took what little money I had left over from my tax refund and spent it on improving my indoor air in my house. Now I can breathe a lot better when I’m within the confines of my home. I wish I could get air quality like this in my car and at work, but at least I have some respite at home. I am using my inhaler a lot less now that I have a whole-house air purification installed to protect my respiratory health.