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Currently sick as we speak. The wife, the 5 year old daughter, the 2 year old son, and I are currently bouncing the cold back and forth like a ping pong ball. It gets progressively worse every time I catch it. Currently I have that annoying part where your stomach is in knots from the constant backflow of mucus to your stomach, and that insufferable thing where one side of your nose is completely blocked while the other side is runny, then three hours later it switches for no logical reason.

I get ill when I get time off work.
Both of the week-long leave periods in 2017 were lost to illness.
It is also why I get ill at Christmas, but only if I book time off work.

So, work keeps me well... :(

 Skinnereal wrote:
I get ill when I get time off work.
Both of the week-long leave periods in 2017 were lost to illness.
It is also why I get ill at Christmas, but only if I book time off work.

So, work keeps me well... :(

Ha, I think I've gotten sick on all but 1 time off work for the past 4 years.

I seem to recover just in time to still feel a bit crap on the day I go back to work, but not so crap I'll take the day off

I've been meaning to build a new shed for the past couple of years and it hasn't happened because I end up sick whenever I have time off work.

Every spring I have a stuffy nose, sometimes lasts until summer.
I noticed that people get colds badly, after deadlines on weekends and the like.
Also, I did not see many people catch cold during the cold. But many catch cold when the temperature gets warmer after a cold.

Actually fairly rare I get sick, though I say that as Im sick right now . I typically get sick once a year or 2 years. I guess Im lucky when I get those long stretches

I got the flu earlier despite getting the flu shot. I guess it didn't work.
Problem is, I work with kids, some with immune problems, so if I have a runny nose, I'm screwed.

Went to the zoo over the Autumn season and my wife and I were talking to one of the keepers in the gorilla cages.
The keeper said that they have to be careful to not come to work sick because it can be given to the gorillas and the other way around. So if they find they are sick while at work, they can't work near the gorillas.

I can just see a gorilla blowing its nose on a tarp it has been sleeping under.