It was the weekend before the superbowl, a beautiful Sunday afternoon. We'd just had our cousin come over. We were having lunch and talking about an awesome project he was working on. By the 3pm, he was gone and we began to wind down. All three of us were sitting on the couch watching TV and just relaxing. Things could not have been better. That's when suddenly I had the urge to cough. I had had a cold for the past week and had been coughing up a...