Back in 2023, I nearly died. It was a Thursday evening, and I was struggling to breathe. As my Dad carried me to the car, I said in my muffled voice: “Dad, I can’t breathe. Am I going to die?” I vividly recall what he said: “Just breathe, baby. Slow and steady. You are a fighter and you will get through this. We got you.” In the days that followed in the ER at Seattle Children’s Hospital, I learned more about asthma, what triggered the attack I had suffered, the root causes o