The Drew Review

I Think I Got The Black Lung, Pop!

I can feel my cough starting to change it’s shape in my lungs. Material is starting to be pulled from recesses of my chest previously unknown to have “material”. 

When we arrived in Beijing, the family immediately set about to getting horrible colds, as though it was an item on our itinerary. A couple of weeks later, the colds were gone, slowly having atrophied in the dry air of Northern China. They haven’t gone entirely, Cole’s nose still gets crusty. Christine sounds like her allergies are inflamed, and now, my cough has deepened.

Is it the infamous smog? Maybe. It’s also cold as hell here, so there’s no real way to know yet. I’ve heard that any lung damage one might acquire over a short period of time is not permanent. I’ve heard that the lungs repair themselves after spending enough time outside of this smog, so the only thing to do at this point is to keep my toddler indoors as much as possible, and enjoy my new Barry White voice. 

Seriously, it’s dead sexy.

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