How Do I Protect My Mother’s Lungs During Diwali ‘Festivities’?

On Diwali, mom is confined to her room with the doors and windows locked, but the smoke is relentless and brutal.

Run to the third floor of your apartment or office building through stairs and the breathlessness and strain on the lungs you feel is exactly how Asthma and patients of other lung ailments feel every moment they breathe in pollution with their shrinking lungs.

I have spent last two months in the ICU corridors and hospital wards just to ensure that my mother can breathe and come back to life. She is fighting a lung infection that has left her on oxygen support since 23 August 2017.