Assignment 6: Create Your Own Adventure

Prompt 1: People everyday influence the ways we act without us even realizing it. Who has been the most influential person in your life? Why?
Prompt 2: Many people read a book or have watched a tv show or movie they really enjoyed. What fictional universe would you most like to live in and why? What about you would you change to fit that universe and why would you change it?
Prompt 3: Most people experience a "turning point" in their lives where their perspective on what is going on around them changes. Have you experienced a "turning point" yet? If so what was it and why was it significant? If not what do you believe it will be that shifts your perspective?

I will be responding to prompt 3.

Last August my dad moved into a house near chevy chase that was built in the 1920's it is beautiful, old and practical for a bachelor with kids visiting on weekends. Me and my brothers thought it would be a good turn around from the lower class neighborhood he was previously living in, and that came true for everyone but me.
 I have acute asthma, which basically means one minute I could be fine and the next minute i could be gasping for air because something agitated my airways. On top if the acute asthma I am allergic to basically all ordinary things: cats, dogs, trees, grass, horse (great to be allergic to in the horse capital of the world), pollen, and especially mold and dust mites. Dust mites are these microscopic creatures that live in all fabric and really enjoy stuffing of pillows, this mean I have to have special pillows and sheets and covers for mattresses so I can breathe correctly.
When we moved my dad into his new house I started to get sick, my asthma was getting bad, but everyone including myself attributed it to the dust stirred up from moving. That was not the case at all. There was mold at my dads house. I mean what old house doesn't have mold in it. The mold caused me to get sick and I got sicker overtime I visited him. Eventually the doctor had me stop visiting his house but it was too late. Three emergency room visits and about 20 doctor visits later my common issue with asthma had turned into a battle for me to breathe in just three months.
No average person has to think about taking in oxygen so it can be released at carbon dioxide or worry if they can make it through a full day of school with out having their airways start to close off. But this became my life for my entire sophomore year. By the end of the year I was skipping lunch to do a breathing treatment, where a machine vaporizes stronger medicine than the average in haler to be inhaled,  just to make it four hours at a time.
I quickly realized that the things most teenagers find important like playing sports and going out with friends were really no important at all when compared to breathing. This long sickness taught me that health is the most important thing in life because without it we are nothing. It has lead me to be okay with missing something because I don't feel well and that its okay if I can't complete a physical activity because my lungs can't keep up with my body. And to me things like going out all the time takes a lower precedence to staying home and resting if I'm not feeling well or I'm just tired