the bitter reality...isonea is much needed....

Here is an article that I read today, and it outlines and punctuates the bitter reality of what some parents and their children live through on a daily basis...If our team can help, then we have invested in the right company, win, lose, or draw.....

The Wheezometer....Why every school should have one, why every sporting facility should have one, and why every parent who's child suffers from asthma should be equiped with one be it hand held, or phone app....

" The School contacted his parents to say he had begun wheezing badly..."

Eight-year-old dies from fatal asthma attack just hours after receiving his 50m swimming badgeOwen Jeremy suffered a cardiac arrest hours after receiving 50m swimming badge
By Emma Reynolds
PUBLISHED: 18:07 GMT, 31 May 2012 | UPDATED: 07:56 GMT, 1 June 2012
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An eight-year-old sports enthusiast died from a fatal asthma attack hours after receiving his 50-metre swimming badge, it emerged yesterday.

Owen Jeremy, from Dudley, West Midlands, suffered a cardiac arrest after being rushed to hospital.

The youngster's worried teachers at Fairhaven Primary School contacted his parents to say he had begun wheezing badly in class after playing football at lunchtime last Wednesday.
Owen Jeremy began wheezing after playing football at lunch at Fairhaven Primary School, pictured
He was taken to Russells Hall Hospital in Dudley and began to show signs of improvement during the afternoon - playing with his dad in the x-ray room and even joking about his holiday to Disneyland.

But at 11pm, Owen’s condition started to deteriorate. He was given adrenaline as doctors battled to save his life, but suffered a cardiac arrest and died shortly after midnight.


His heartbroken mother Rowena, 37, said yesterday that she and Owen's father David, 41, had lost ‘the centre of their world’.

She said: 'We were talking about our holiday literally minutes before he had a heart attack. This was nowhere near expected.

'We really miss him. He never stopped running around and we were out every night doing something. That’s the hardest part of it - our whole world revolved around him.
The schoolboy was taken to Russells Hall Hospital, pictured, where he suffered a cardiac arrest just hours after his attack
'He was a very loving little boy, had a wicked sense of humour and was very socially conscious.

'He loved football and swimming and he was a big Aston Villa supporter. He was also learning to play guitar and he was really, really into the environment.

'When he was four he used to shout at 4x4 vehicles that they made the planet sad.

'He loved all the super heroes and wanted to be a rock star scientist like Brian Cox.'

Headteacher Dave Rowe said yesterday: 'We’re obviously all devastated. It’s such an unexpected loss.
'He was such a lovely little boy, full of energy. He enjoyed playing football with his friends and he had a great


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