I had some horrible news today that a friend of 15 years died early this morning from a severe asthma attack. He had suffered from bad asthma and excema from childhood wich had recenly been made a lot worse by depression and stress.

I feel such a mixture of emotions from numbness to tears and also a terrible fear that if this can happen to him then it could happen to me too. I feel so terribly sad - he was only 37.