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TIFU by forgetting I had ASTHMA

Alright Reddit, this is my first time using Reddit through the app, yet alone using Reddit in years. I think this is the genuinely most fucked I've been in a while, so why not entertain and humor others of my ignorance.

Recently, I started college. Living a sheltered life and not really having true friends to hang with, college became an eye opener as I met so many different people (ethnicities, neurodivergence, LGBTQ+, etc). I never really had differing friends like that and my old friends were mostly school friends we never really hanged outside of school. I met this cool friend recently who is so open and eye opening. I never realized how much I been level locked (a term I coined for feeling like my age was the barrier from new experiences like quests being locked in video games by levels) I was.

We hanged out today and we hanged before but she always felt bad smoking around non-smoker friends. I'm accommodating and understanding, wanting to seek new experiences. We walked and talked around the area about life and I didn't realize I was inhabiting secondhand smoke, since I was caught in the moment of this great day. We only walked for 20 minutes, she's a quick smoker before she said she had to meet up with another friend. I went to class and thought nothing of it. We were speaking about how living in the city that is polluted would basically ruin the lungs anyways so what's second degree smoke? WRONG.

Hours after my classes were over, I was heading home. I felt like I was choking and had severe coughing fits. I brought it up to my parents how my day was like and connected it with the incident, after my parents clicked to me I "outgrown" my asthma 8 years ago. Oh, crap. Right I should be aware to not inhibit stuff to my poor sensitive lungs, especially since I don't exercise. Had to use my pump, albuterol, and open all the windows and have the humidifer on. Still coughing.

Blame my ignorance.

TLDR: used to have asthma, hanged with a smoker and now im coughing

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