I wouldn't know the difference quite honestly. For me, it seems like a regular waxing and waning cough.

[He was still too new to identify the symptoms of one over the other. And yet, the suggestion that he shouldn't travel alone was not one he was ready to consider. Face-to-face encounters had not gone so well for him the last while.]

A cough is nothing that I can't handle. There are others in worse needs than I.