Jessie James Decker recently opened up about the quiet strength her son Forrest shows despite battling asthma.
The 37-year-old American country pop singer shares her four children, Vivianne, 11, Eric “Bubby” Jr., 10, Forrest, 7, and Denver, 2, with husband Eric Decker, a former NFL star.
While conversing with PEOPLE magazine, Jessie said the very first thing she noticed in Forest when he turned 2 was that he “was running and playing with the other kids, he’d always have to stop and catch his breath. It was like his lungs couldn’t keep up with him.”
The mother of four revealed that Foster used to catch cold frequently and struggle with uncontrollable coughing and wheezing. Sometimes his condition got extremely bad that he would throw up.
“It would break your heart to watch it,” she noted.
However, after back-to-back visits to ER in January 2021, doctors diagnosed him with asthma, “a chronic condition in which the lungs and airways swell up when exposed to certain triggers, making breathing difficult.”
The Lose Control songstress recalled, “I remember being so scared because you read stories of kids having asthma attacks and the outcomes not being great. I was freaking out because I didn’t really know much about it.”
Fast forward to half a decade later, Foster is doing much better with regular medication and careful monitoring.
“Forrest knows that everybody has something, and asthma is just his thing. Life is what you make of it, and we want to make the best of this and try and raise awareness so people don’t feel so alone,” Jessie James Decker explained.
