No, Witchy, I was not in track during high school. I was diagnosed with asthma when I was four -- that was when I experienced my first asthma attack, which kept me in the hospital for a week. Although I was an active child -- I roller-skated, rode my bike, played tag and hop-scotch, etc., I was exempt from participating in overstrenuous p.e. activities that required endurance. When you just do "normal" kid running around, such as the activities that I mentioned, it's more stop-go. It's nothing that I had to keep up for long periods of a time, as in cross-country, or sprinting as in track and field. When I was a kid, they didn't have preventive inhalers or medications. We knew nothing about managing our asthma so that you wouldn't have an asthma attack. The rule back then was don't overdo it, otherwise you'll need your rescue inhaler. I wish when I was a kid we had all the meds we have today because maybe I would've been on the track or cross-country team. Also, it's a vicious circle. I was picked on during a couple of grades and wonder if maybe I did a sport, I would've developed more confidence in myself, which is what I really could've used back then. But because I got picked on, I never had the confidence to want to go out and try, which actually sounds dumb because of my asthma I wouldn't have been able to have done anything anyway. Don't get me wrong -- I didn't have an unhappy childhood and I had friends. It was just a couple of grades that I had some problems with certain kids.
