Team Lil Wheezy

Why we’re doing the Huff & Puff 💪🏼🏃🏻‍♀️

This September Charli and I will be huffing & puffing against asthma to raise funds and awareness against this incurable disease. 

For those close to me, they see the daily struggle I have from my asthma symptoms. Being diagnosed at the age of 3, I’ve had many hospital admissions and been on countless medications to prevent the severity of my asthma. Unfortunately despite being on the highest level of treatment possible for asthma, it is still affecting my life daily. I’ve missed countless days of work just because I struggle to get out of bed. Sport has and always will be a massive part of my life and I refuse to let my asthma take control of what I can and can’t do. 

That’s why this September I will be pushing myself to run 2km every day for 10 days to raise funds so people with asthma can breathe easier. 

We're getting breathless for asthma!

We're challenging ourself to 10 days straight of fitness activity because, unlike people with asthma we can breathe easily. We want to stand with them and really experience what it’s like, even just for a moment, to struggle to breathe. 

• Asthma is responsible for at least 1 Australian death every day and around 100 hospitalisations every day. Over 80% of these hospitalisations are considered potentially avoidable. 
• 1 in 9 Australians are directly impacted by asthma, with children being the most impacted.

You can show your support by using the Donate button. Your support will fund ground-breaking research and provide free support programs and services to the asthma community, like 1800 ASTHMA. A telephone information support service that receives around 20 calls a day from people with asthma and their carers. 

“An Asthma Educator really changed my life. We have never in our life been more well than we are now, due to that call we made to Asthma Australia. Can’t recommend them highly enough. We learned more in that 40 minute chat than we have in our lifetime.”

– 1800 ASTHMA Caller