Asthma

Rick DeMont's problem was beaurocracy but his underlying problem was asthma. Same with me; I've had it since I was 9-years old. It started the week after the Munich air disaster. My dad used to take me to watch Manchester United every home game but I can't remember any of them before the air crash; asthma's a funny old thing.

Rick talks about living in Arizona and, 'I believe I'm healed' because of the dry air. My experience is similar; if I take Britain as the starting point, because I was brought up there, and give that an index of 2 for asthma-controlling drug use, I then moved to Canada and used 1, then Greece where I used 0 (literally, my medication use was totally negligible), then back to GBR (2) and on to Godzone where it's been continually at least 4 for the whole time I've been here.

You all have asthmatics in your swim squads and the medics here don't accept the climate as a problem.

It is.