I’ve writ­ten a few times in the last month about my annoy­ing, per­sis­tent cough. It usu­ally comes on like a cold, and then it hangs on just about for­ever it seems. I often can’t sleep well. I feel tired dur­ing the day. I decided that it was time to do some­thing about it. Yep, I wrote all this yes­ter­day and prob­a­bly a cou­ple other times. What’s new, you’re wondering?

Noth­ing new, but I do have a reminder as to why I need to con­tinue pur­su­ing a cause and/or treat­ment. K. Poor guy is cough­ing tonight. Last night, he woke up a cou­ple times cough­ing. As hard as it is for me to deal with the cough, it’s even harder for me to hear him deal­ing with it. I feel guilty, because I know that he coughs because I cough, and he has half of my chro­mo­somes. I feel like I caused this prob­lem for him. Right now, he’s barely 3, and he has had this cough way too many times in his life. It seems like his whatever-this-is is worse than mine was at his age. Is it aller­gies? Asthma? Some­thing else? What causes this and who can help us fig­ure this out???

The poor kid is only three, and he’s already had allergy test­ing done. He’s tried clar­itin and zyrtec. He’s cur­rently try­ing an asthma inhaler. I just wish I could take it away for him, but I can’t. After deal­ing with the same sort of cough for the last three weeks (plus a cou­ple days), it hurts my heart to hear him going through the same thing.