I know how you feel.. right now as I type this I am doing a breathing
treatment at home because I woke up not breathing well.  It's been a bad
couple of weeks and I have a feeling it's not going to get better for
awhile.  I have adult onset asthma, never having had it as a child and
it's not easy to deal with.  My mother died of lung cancer but she was
able to die peacefully at home.  She too suffered from asthma at the end
(as well as other complications) and at the time she was dying my own
asthma had just been diagnosed 3 months earlier.  And though I have many
days where I think this breathing thing is not all it's been hyped up to
be... I remember that there are many people who love me and who would
miss me.... and I want to see my grandson and any future grandchildren
grow up.  

Too bad asthma wasn't an important issue, like you know... old men regaining
the ability to get erect.

If it was, we'd see some pretty cheap-a.s asthma medication for everyone,
and probably very effective too.