Meet Tommy

Tommy suffers from environmental asthma caused by air pollution from a local cement kiln. View Tommy's story and join Earthjustice in the the fight for clean air.

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• earthjustice
• midlothian
• cement
• kiln
• mercury
• air
• pollution
• tommy
• kid
• asthma
• texas
• child
• medication

[SuperRedburn]

@ebellamy56 Thank you for sharing that and it gives up hope!! I hope you stay strong and healthy. :)

[iamazlin1]

perhaps evolution is removeing week lunged tommy from the foodchain

[SuperRedburn]

Asthma is a scary thiing. Anyone who has a problem with what this little boy simply doesn't know about or care about those who have suffered. Way to go, Tommy. Speak the truth always!

[april00026000]

Aww, the kid is sooo sweet and innocent. I'm sorry about his asthma.

[Tnkr90]

I have asthma when I was 4. Now I'm 20 yrs old. Last year I almost died because an asthma attack.

[Aralayna]

My boyfriend, the love of my life, has as asthma and it kicks in every other day and it worries me to death.

I take it a lot more seriously than I used to after seeing it firsthand.

[gabriella1012]

Asthma is tough to live with. I have asthma and found out last november or december.

[thegaysailors]

I moved the boat from the boatyard to the marina and all of a sudden my asthma got worse. I was on the dock when I realized that grit was getting in my eyes. I saw where the wind was coming from and it was Lafarge Cement about 950 metres away. The marina was more downwind that where I was in the boatyard so I'm pretty sure that the asthma was aggravated by the cement dust. Take a look at my videos which catch the plant releasing dust. Ironically, most of the releases can be seen at night.

[ebellamy56]

i understand what he's going through because i have asthma and my dad works for a cement company so when he comes home the cement follows him and i had to take those same meds, but majority of those meds are for allergies and if u ask a local doctore about allergy shots, trust me they improve asthma soo much. i no longer have asthma symptoms and i was one of the worse cases my doctors had. so its not only the environments (cement kilns)

[TheMiraculousMike]

I lived in Midlothian, TX for five years, and yes the air there is terrible. You can never get a fresh breath of air. I now have an inhaeler, because of living here.