Similar histories, came down with severe bronchial asthma at six month, after my mother's immune system had completely exhausted itself. Nights of shots of adrenaline went on for years. Cough medicine that was equivalent to a shot of 20 to 40 proof, depending on the one being given. Plus years of hospitalization.

For me it was my mother, who when I was two and a half, took over from the doctor, and his house calls. She slept by my bed, on a cot, for a year, until I could wake up, still needing a shot, but with the terror abated. She is still missed, she died when I was 20.