Epping Family Grateful for Asthma Support of State Organization
July 21, 2008
The Council for Children and Adolescents with Chronic Health Conditions changed the lives of the St. Clair family forever.
Shelley and Phil St. Clair’s son Coby, now 8, was diagnosed with severe asthma when he was 2½ years old. When a respiratory specialist requested Coby be put on a nebulizer, a device used to administer medication in forms of a liquid mist to the airways, the family became fearful as to what the future held.
Air pollution concentrations are expected to reach unhealthy levels in Hillsborough and Rockingham Counties on Friday, July 18. State officials are calling for an Air Quality Action Day and advise sensitive individuals to take precautions. One out of six children in New Hampshire have a chronic illness.
Shelley, an asthma patient herself, and Phil said caught wind of the Council for Children and Adolescents with Chronic Health Conditions (CCACHC) by reading a newspaper article in July 2003 and called for help. “It changed my life,” Shelley said.
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