Shannen O’Brien

I’m getting breathless for asthma!

I’m challenging myself to 10 days straight of fitness activity because, I’ve struggled to breathe most of my life. Asthma has limited my ability to participate in a lot of sports. I have also lost a very close friend in highschool to an asthma attack. Living life fearing if you don’t have a ventolin close by when exercising. 

• 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. I have never in my life been more well than I am now, due to that call I made to Asthma Australia. Can’t recommend them highly enough. I learned more in that 40 minute chat than I have in my lifetime.”

– 1800 ASTHMA Caller