I ignored my itchy legs and common sleep complaint. Then doctors found something horrifying on a scan. I'd left it far too late
For about four months, Yewdell, then 27, thought he was suffering from a harmless dry cough. It caused his chest to make a cracking sound when he stretched and left him in pools of sweat in the middle of the night.
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