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I'm Clyde Lewis.

And this is Ground Zero.

The numbers to call the 9503-2-5-0-860.

That's 503-2-2-5-0-860.

So I've been, I don't know this, but I've been dealing with this, I don't know, calling it the 100-day cough.

And it comes and it goes.

It's like it's, you know, I go a long period without coughing and then I step into a certain area and I start coughing.

I think it's because I'm allergic to one of the trees here in Portland.

So I went to the doctor and I asked him and I said, why am I having this nagging cough?

And he said, well, it's a hundred day cough and it's been the complaint of a lot of his patients lately.

And he even was coughing when I saw him. He was wearing a mask, so I, you know, but he didn't look well.

And, you know, every once in a while I hear a wheeze when I breathe in.

And it's like, do I see, do I, I, I don't know.

I'm just, you know, barreling through the best I can, right?

And just when I think the cough is going away,

it comes back with a vengeance is either in the morning or when I come to work. So throughout the afternoon, I can go without the hacking rituals. And then when night comes and I'm back

home or I'm outside, I mean, it just, it just comes and goes. I'm wondering if I'm back home or I'm outside.

I mean, it just comes and goes.

I'm wondering if I'm drowning.

It's awful.

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