Many moons ago, I wrote a blog called “From Behind the Light.” It was mostly personal stories. Some comics. This is one of the better entries, rewritten for your enjoyment.
You can read Part One of “The Asthma Killer” here.
You can read Part Two of “The Asthma Killer” here.
You can read Part Three of “The Asthma Killer” here.
With the healing effects of the caramelized onion coursing through their bodies, the room started to glow and light shot from the tips of their fingers as their bodies were lifted magically into the air and spun. Once set back down again, they each stated in turn, “I’m cured.”
Except of course for Pete who said, “Whoa. I can’t breathe.”
Okay, so that didn’t happen.
What did happen was precisely nothing. Aside from the horrible tastes in their mouths and the stink produced by their exhaling, neither my wife Erin, nor our friends Danny and Pete them reported any difference that night whatsoever.
As soon as it was over, we ate the dessert and pointed and laughed at them. Just as we had planned.
10 YEARS LATER:
Today the effects of that night can be easily observed by a quick survey of the participants.
DANNY: It’s been several years since we’ve talked to Danny. He reported no asthma-related symptoms for 3 weeks after that night, but soon enough he did experience a shortness of breath and an attack or two. As far as I know he suffers from asthma to this day.
PETE: He never did get asthma, but he did receive our admiration. He married a few years later and travels the world with his wife as often as possible, breathing all kinds of air with no trouble whatsoever.
ERIN: After dealing with asthma and asthma attacks all of her life, since that night Erin has not had even a hint of lung power loss. She never used her inhaler again and has never been to a doctor or to the hospital for any asthma-related reason. Her last attack was shortly before ingesting the sugar onion and there were a string of severe attacks before that, but none since. No one is more surprised than she, and it’s not something she really likes to talk about because the only explanation we have sounds so ridiculous. However, she is my wife and I have been able to personally observe her and I can confirm that it is true.
Make of it what you will.
THE END
Written by : Brock Heasley
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The best part about natural cures like these are that even if they don’t work you’ve not ingested any new toxins into your bodies, but this sounds like if it is a fix then the size of the onion does matter. I would be interested to see if Danny were to try it again with a larger onion if he would have better results. He did claim no attacks for several weeks after, so then you have to wonder if anything else changed in his life (new meds, etc.) that might have created some sort of relapse of symptoms that were subsiding. I hope Erin is able to stay attack free from here on out and that this natural cure has in fact worked for her. I would say to anyone with chronic asthma attacks, might as well try it…not gonna hurt ya either way. You have Asthma before, so if it doesn’t work nothing has changed, you just have a fun story to share.
Happy New Year Heasley Family.
Brock, a delightful story lovingly written! Thank you. Makes me wonder if that “cure” will work for allergies, too!
Here’s wishing you and yours the very best in the new year and many more to come! ~ Jande