Because our tired doctors see cough, they see shadow on X-ray, and in India, it is always TB first. So they hand us DOTS pills and send us away. For years, I swallowed that bitter medicine, body weakening, but the cough... it stayed like a ghost in the chest. Only when my daughter brought a big-city report home did they find it was sarcoidosis, not TB at all. Now my shehnai practice has this new rhythm: the cough between the notes, a duet I never asked for.
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