Lung Launching Cough

The weather changes, so cold, the end of winter... Monday I wore a dress and flip flops. Then it got cold again... Back to a winter coat cold. My lungs do a terrible job adapting to such an experience. It manifests in a cough that sounds like I will launch a lung across the room.

Everyone worries. That I'm dying... That I'll get them sick. I see it in the faces of my colleagues and fellow passengers on the subway. It sounds awful. I walked into workforce health to "get it checked out" ie. ensure I wasn't contagious.

I walked in and the receptionist handed me a surgical mask... She too was scared. ;) Good news, I'm not contagious, but did get a steroid to open up my dang lungs from my pulmonologist.