Coughing Up A Lung

'There were bumps under his skin - signs of feathers that were going to break free. It was hell not to relieve the itch that crawled all over his body, to break the blisters that drove him to near insanity.
"It's just chicken pox," Kori had told him after they came back from space, "It's nothing big. Expect it to go after a few days."
If Jason couldn't survive the first hours, how was he going to survive days?'

[Whumptober Day Eight]