He had trouble catching his breath.
“There’s nothing like it,” he said. “I would cough till I passed out.”
Wallace Feese, director of Taylor Regional Hospital’s laboratory, was diagnosed with whooping cough in January. He said the illness gave him a severe cough and made breathing difficult.
“It seemed like I had a lot of trouble getting over it,” he said. “I’m alright now, I just don’t want to have it again.”