It started with a tickle in my throat Uh oh I thought That tickle turned out to be influenza And that was just the beginning of bronchial affliction Influenza morphed into whooping cough mdash yes that whooping cough mdash and that turned into pneumonia Eight weeks of torso-wracking coughing mdash it rsquo s not called whooping cough for nothing mdash has left me humbled I don rsquo t think of myself as old But I rsquo m old enough to start thinking about heading that direction A member of my church rsquo s small group has a funny name for [... more]