fight for breath

“It’s so basic that we don’t even think about it until we can’t breathe. And then, we fight for breath. We fight for breath because we want to live because breath is life,” she said.

On Thursday, prosecutors recalled Martin Tobin, the Chicago-area pulmonologist who testified last week in excruciating detail about Floyd’s fight for breath.

“Fluid can accumulate in the lungs causing dogs to fight for breath but because Casper was unconscious, the fluid just ran out of him,” she said.

He’d wanted to watch me die, wanted to watch me fight for breath the way I am fighting for it now.

They see Rose Holder - a lifelong asthmatic and captain of the color guard, the emotional heart of the band - stop between drills to place both hands on her knees and fight for breath.