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I've got a fever, my voice has dropped about half an octave, and the wastebasket beside me is quickly filling up with tissues. So I'm lying on the couch in my pajamas eating Chicken Noodle O's and watching The Truman Show.
It's cold and flu season in the northern hemisphere! So I want to know, QC: what is your sick day routine?
Do you watch particular movies (my personal favorites are Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Back to the Future)? Eat particular foods (me: saltine crackers, Chicken Noodle O's, jello)? Or maybe you've got a home remedy that works for you. Basically, how do you make being sick bearable?
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Seeing as how most medicine makes me sick, I take a small amount of aspirin to get rid of the headache and tone the fever done and I take some cold and flu stuff that I can tolerate.
Then I drink a large amount of tea while curled up in bed watching back to back episodes of whatever TV series I am currently into.
Chicken noodle soup goes down pretty well.
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Yes, tea. Always tea. Black, with lemon and honey. I usually make a whole thermos and just park it next to the couch or wherever it is that I am stationing myself for the day. I also typically watch the whole Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, while drifting in and out of consciousness.
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I'm sick as well! Since I arrived in Scotland 2 months ago I've been sick 3 times (and also once back in Norway right before leaving, that's 4 colds since August), so I'm fairly experienced in this 'sick day' thing. Today I got up early, stuffed my face with paracetamol, nose spray and tissues. Ran to school with a cup of tea in my hand, sat in a room filled with turpentine and oil gasses for 8 hours before I climbed to a rooftop and got naked there for a friend's photo project. Pretty sure it was almost freezing, I could see my own breath at least. Then I went to the pub for beers, and now I'm staying up way too late, not getting enough sleep before I have to get up early for school again tomorrow. I had soup at some point I guess, so at least I did something right!
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Being sick gives me an excuse to buy/drink expensive teas while reading books I've yet to finish. As for food, I'm never really hungry while I'm sick.
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I get migraines a lot and need to spend the day at home. I just sleep all day. I'm pretty excellent at sleeping. It is a bit harder when you have a migraine though.
If I really can't sleep I get on Meebo since there are usually people around when it's the middle of the day here. I generally don't eat or drink because I'm never home enough to have any food in the house.
Due to the fact that I work 8:30 - 6:00 every weekday, I always feel guilty that I'm not out thrifting or photographing when I have the day off to use the sunlight. Oh well.
Also Kris I don't think naked on a rooftop is the ideal remedy for colds?
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being a 23 year old child masquerading as an adult, I recently had to take care of myself when very sick for the first time.
I was woefully unprepared. I had no crackers or soup or juice or anything remotely useful. Eventually my roomate gave me a ride down the street to a gas station so I could get some cranberry juice and ginger ale (mixing those together is my preferred method of hydration when sick, it's awesome and delicious)
the advent of Netflix instant streaming has made being sick stupidly tolerable. "Oh, hello there, first two seasons of Parks & Rec. Why, yes, I will watch every single episode of you in a day, thanks for asking."
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Also Kris I don't think naked on a rooftop is the ideal remedy for colds?
Probably not, but at least my friend will have some cool shots for her project. We'll see if it made any difference in the morning, it's not like I climb rooftops naked each time I'm sick! It's more every third time actually.
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either i don't ever truly get sick or i am just too stupid to take proper care of myself but honestly i just kind of like, ignore it and carry on living my life. i think the last time i was truly sick enough to have to take a day off school/work was maybe three or four years ago.
wait, i do actually remember, it was october 2007. i remember because tommy was the one who made me sick when he visited. fuck you, tommy.
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I usually take an Advil/Dayquil or two, make myself some tea and some soup (usually homemade meso soup, yum), curl up in bed and listen to music/watch movies/catch up on TV shows. Pretty run-of-the-mill stuff, but sick days gimme a chance to focus and revisit some favorite albums and movies of mine. Plus last year during my 2 week long battle with stomach flu I watched all of The Wire.
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I burrow under a mountain of blankets and read.
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Warm beer right before going to bed works pretty well for me, if it's a regular cold. That and lots of tea during the day.
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When having the flu, as a kid, my mom usually gave me regular coke and salty potato chips, and lots of comic books to entertain myself since daytime TV is torture. (The fantastic choice between Neighbours, Glamour or Days of our Lives) I've sort of kept to that standard.
With colds, nothing special, I seem to get them too often. :oops: Tea with honey is great though, although lately Ive taken a liking to black coffee with a teaspoon of honey instead.. Oh and if you're "clogged up" and don't have any nosespray, just boil some water with some salt in it and when its done put a blanket over your head and the casserole and breathe in. It helps.
Anyway... Get well! :)
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Actually I was sick a few weeks ago and I watched the entire second season of Buffy in two days while huddled under blankets drinking nothing but green tea with honey.
If it gets really bad I'll drop a few alka-seltzer and conk out for a day.
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Usually I spend the whole day in bed, waking briefly to bombard my system with chicken noodle soup and a handful of cold remedies.
I learned today that you shouldn't take aspirin when you have a fever because you may contract Reye's Syndrome. This scares me and makes me wonder why I haven't heard of it before.
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I don't get sick very often, and I can't remember the last time I was so sick that I was bed-ridden (it would've been some time when I was still living with my parents, so at least seven years ago), so my sick day routine is usually just to struggle through. Basically when I'm sick it's like having a hangover: I can function but everything takes me about three times as long to do and my brain is only functioning at about half its normal capacity.
I don't like taking drugs so I very rarely take any medecine. Fortunately my body's very good at telling me what I ought to be eating at any given time so when I'm sick I usually get cravings for red meat so I tend to eat a lot of that to give myself a big protein and iron hit. (Normally I don't eat much red meat at all.) I'll try to go to bed much earlier than usual when I'm sick, to give myself as much rest as possible. I occupy myself by doing things that aren't intellectually taxing - so usually watching crappy TV or DVDs. If I'm feeling not too bad I'll try to go for a walk or a bike ride to get a bit of blood circulation happening and that usually makes me feel better.
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My favorite things to do when sick are get up and take whatever meds I need and then immediately go back to sleep, because usually that will make me feel well enough to shuffle someplace that isn't the bathroom. (It's easy to shuffle to my bathroom, it's right next to my room.) Then I cozy up on the couch with peppermint tea and watch a movie from childhood, mostly animated ones. (Sometimes I might watch Miyazaki, but usually it's Disney or something similar.) If I eat, it's chicken noodle soup and Ritz crackers. Lots of water. Maybe juice. I carry my jar of honey with me when my throat is sore. (Works just as well as a cough drop and it tastes better.)
Basically I don't go anywhere without my quilt and tend to curl up on squishy furniture. If I'm at my mom's, add cuddling with my cat to all of that. Other than the whole being sick part, I quite like my sick days.
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I haven't been sick enough to stay home in a long time, but when I am, it's usually dry toast or noodle soup made with packet chicken stock, and either cable television or old taped episodes of Gilmore Girls.
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I pretty much just go about my day. If it's bad I'll take to carrying large mugs of tea saturated with honey so that I'm able to speak. I feel like I'm going to be miserable whether I'm home on the couch or at class/work doing what needs to be done, so I may as well learn/get paid. Sometimes this leads to me being sent home from work. Not usually class. Professors don't typically give a shit as long as your sniffling/moaning/dry-heaving doesn't disrupt their lecture.
I've also had some pretty awesome experiences having to take care of myself while living on my own and trying to be a grownup. Usually the worst I have to do is shuffle sniffling to the store and spend too long forcing my mucus-clogged brain to decide whether the tissues with lotion are worth the extra 50 cents (Answer: Yes). This summer though, I got this awful stomach bug and couldn't keep anything down for very long. I was trying to be smart and stay hydrated, and the only thing I wanted to consume was juice. After I finished the carton in my fridge, I waited till I thought I was okay, then tried to drive myself to the store, and wound up puking OJ all over myself because I couldn't pull over fast enough. Then I did pull over and puked some more while a guy smoked his cigarette and stared at me. It was a glorious moment in my life.
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routine for me is usually waking up at 4am to go to sick call. Waiting in a small room with every other sick or injured person and secretly judging them as not being as sick as me. After about 3 hours i spend 5min with a medic that low and behold tells me im sick. They right me a prescription that is way more than i'll ever use and tells me to suck it up and go to work. When i was younger life was so much easier id stay in bed all day eating chicken and stars and watching cartoons. I miss them days and I especially miss chicken and stars. That stuff was amazing.
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Whiskey for a cough, sometimes mixed with honey. My dad says canadian mist, but I prefer bourbon.
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Since primary school I think I have taken one sick day and one getting-my-wisdom-teeth-out day. I would probably drink a lot of tea and burn the day posting on the internet.
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I was trying to be smart and stay hydrated, and the only thing I wanted to consume was juice. After I finished the carton in my fridge, I waited till I thought I was okay, then tried to drive myself to the store, and wound up puking OJ all over myself because I couldn't pull over fast enough. Then I did pull over and puked some more while a guy smoked his cigarette and stared at me. It was a glorious moment in my life.
Ugh, the idea of puking while driving terrifies me. I am sorry that happened to you!
Also, yeah, I'm more likely to go to school/work than stay home unless absolutely necessary. Today I lucked out, because I scheduled myself this quarter so that I have three 14- to 18-hour days per week, leaving Tuesdays and Thursdays to grade / study (for my comprehensive exam, which I just found out I passed, woo!) / write papers / apply to graduate schools--meaning that when I shirked all of it today, I was accountable to no one! (I may regret it later.)
Then I cozy up on the couch with peppermint tea and watch a movie from childhood, mostly animated ones. (Sometimes I might watch Miyazaki, but usually it's Disney or something similar.)
Ah, yay! I almost forgot--my routine often (though not today) includes some Disney. Have you seen the trailer for the new Winnie the Pooh movie (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbFz--GCkOM)? It will be based on real A.A. Milne stories (like the old movie, unlike the New Adventures), and I am embarrassingly excited about it.
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I basically don't get sick, except that every few years I'll get a case of gastro, in which case my routine is to lie on the couch, watch TV, and try and force down bland food in between bouts of hurling.
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I usually lie in bed and topple my top score in Spelunky, or I get into the couch to play Kingdom Hearts or Super Mario 64. Tea is a standard, I usually drink only rose hip with a teaspoon of sugar, and mix it with different kinds of bullshit herbal pills and loads of fruit.
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On any given flu/cold/hangover I've had, I've been in the postition where staying at home is not an option due to work, so I usually attack any sickness with a shitload of stuff at once and then just work through it and sweat it out.
Lucozade X 2
Sugar and salt rich snacks
800mgs Ibuprofen
generic cold/flu hot drink
more sugar, buscuits cookies etc
lots of water
a bout of masturbation can help too! :-D pump that sickness out etc etc
This usually kills off any sickness within a few hours for me :roll:
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i rarely get sick and when i do, i usually feel too guilty/stressed about all the things i should be doing to take a real sick day. i would love to have a day off all to myself to curl up in bed and read or watch netflix. i want a sick day!
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I drink copious amounts of water.
Take extra insulin and monitor my BS.
Take any over the counter drug that can help me.
As a said diabetic if I get the flu I get me some tamiflu.
I lie down next to the heater and try to sleep until it is gone.
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I don't get very sick very often, but the best thing for me to do when I'm sick is just whine! All day long. I eat plain toast and drink ginger ale if it is a stomach flu, but if it's a cold I'll drink black or peppermint tea with honey and probably not eat all that much. Then I bum around on the internet or in front of the TV and life is okay.
Also! To people who pride themselves on not taking sick days: just do it. If you are sick, and you are going to school or work or whatever, you are spreading your germs! If you take a sick day you can probably prevent other people from getting what you have. It also gives you time to recover and you will do better work when you are well-rested. You are people too! People get sick, this is understandable. Just take a dang day to feel better.
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i get ill for a few days every fall, and thats about it. over the years i've worked out a formula that works very well for me: peppermint, basil, lemon, hibiscus, nigella sativa seeds (idk what you guys call it), a little cinnamon and ginger, all made into a disgusting tea and sweetened with honey. it usually works wonders. if it doesn't, it means that i'll have a terrible fever and won't be able to get out of bed for 2-3 days so i take anything with paracetamol in it. also water. gallons of water.
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I took a ridiculous amount of days off school in 5th year and I think I wasted every one of them aimlessly looking stuff up on the internet.
Also I was in the same boat as kris for about 3 weeks but I magically got better last week. I couldn't actually take any sick days tho.
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The usual migraine stuff I handle with super-super hot showers which chill me out and then loads of sleep.
Other illnesses usually are large infections of some kind, which I seem to be prone mainly due to having rather bad skin, and thus they require anti-biotics and raised hand, foot whatever, so loads of TV series.
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I'm on a super-long sick day at the moment and I spend most of each day sleeping and watching iPlayer. Toast is good comfort food :)
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I should have stayed home today, but I have a meeting and shit.
And said meeting is right at the end of the day. Urrrg.
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Ah, yay! I almost forgot--my routine often (though not today) includes some Disney. Have you seen the trailer for the new Winnie the Pooh movie (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbFz--GCkOM)? It will be based on real A.A. Milne stories (like the old movie, unlike the New Adventures), and I am embarrassingly excited about it.
Aww, that's adorable! I'm glad they're interacting with the book again. The old movie was one I'd watch when I had it, but I don't know what happened to it.
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Strepsils
Weed
Builders tea
Websites about urban exploration or the Soviet space program or something
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Eff this shit. I think I'm going to take a half day today.
Tentative plans at home: lay on the couch, sip tea, and watch the US/South Africa game.
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Ibuprofen or something for a sore throat.
I can manage most sicknesses, but sore throats take a lot out of me because it hampers my ability to talk and interact socially.
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Gargle hot salt water. Blow my nose and head to work.
(I never get sick enough to to have a "sick day")
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You'll never be an Australian with that attitude.
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Hey can we just assume all of the posts after this one are prefaced with the words "I rarely ever get sick but" because apparently everyone on this board is a fucking dynamo.
I got really sick when I was in Memphis a couple of months ago, I coughed so hard I threw up a couple of times. Like, literally, there was nothing wrong with my stomach and I didn't feel queasy beforehand, it was just the convulsive action of the coughing fits forced me to eject the contents of my stomach. Then I'd go eat BBQ pork and feel all better.
Whiskey for a cough, sometimes mixed with honey. My dad says canadian mist, but I prefer bourbon.
My girlfriend told me about this one as well. It actually works? Because I would be all over that if it did.
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Nah, you just get drunk so you can't tell the difference.
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Sometimes if I feel like I'm getting a cold, a shot of whiskey does the trick and clear it up before it gets worse.
Also yeah you people and your 'never getting sick' business make me sick. I'm ALWAYS sick with something or other no matter how many vitamins and vegetables I take.
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I am prone to sinus problems so I get sick all the time. I blanket up and watch television or write. I usually want to play videogames, but it worsens my headache. TV and writing also worsen it but less so, and what am I supposed to do, NOTHING?
Also I make lists.
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Oh man I can't manage to write at all when I'm sick. My brain just crashes completely.
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I am sniffly and my throat is sore and I can't breathe through my nose and I am so sleepy.
Being sick sucks.
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I usually get sick all the time, but the past two months I've been well!!!!!
I usually try and fight through it cause if I stay at home I get behind in everything. But if I stay at home I usually drink tea and whine, I try and convince someone to come and comfort me. I am a big baby. But I actually quite like being sick sometimes, because then people let me be the wimp.
I am almost always sick, sucks.
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Also yeah you people and your 'never getting sick' business make me sick.
not everyone is lucky enough to be a genetic superhuman like me, unfortunately :mrgreen:
no but seriously if it makes you feel any better i make up for my awesome immune system by being absolutely batshit insane crazy in like, 500 different ways
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Maybe I need to eat more food off the floor.
(Who am I kidding, I eat food off the floor all of the time.)
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We should all just have our digestive systems replaced by the digestives systems of dogs. Dogs can eat damn well anything and not get sick.
Except chocolate. Hmm.
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my dog would actually get pretty sick whenever he ate stuff he found on the ground like dead birds and cigarette butts and garbage. in fact, i think the only thing he could eat that wouldn't make him sick was poo. if you really want to eat poo and you feel like that's worth the trade-off for chocolate... i dunno man, it's your life i guess
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Faildog.
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(I'm sure he was a lovely dog.)
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oh he's still around, he just lives with my parents and is like two hundred years old and basically just eats and sleeps and throws up all the time
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Yes, tea. Always tea. Black, with lemon and honey.
I endorse tea, though I prefer it Chinese style. Also Hot Sour Soup. My Grandma prescribes Hot Sour Soup for everything. It's like Jewish chicken soup, except Chinese.
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I have mentioned this before, but I pretty much have an immune system of steel. I just get sinus infections because I am allergic to dust, pollen, and mold, which unless I'm in a bubble, makes me allergic to everything. Yay! So if one of you genetic super humans WITHOUT allergies wants to procreate and have super babies, let me know. We can make an army that will never get sick and take over the world.
:psyduck:
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We can make an army that will never get sick and take over the world.
I'm exactly the same, sinus wise. Breathe no germs, get no sickness. We could make an army per se, but I'm married............so it'll have to be your place. yuk yuk yuk :-D
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I am fairly permanently low-level sick, in that I have some kind of food allergy but I don't know what to, so I get stomach ache all the time, but I don't really consider that to be sick because it's my normal state. Other than that I get colds sometimes but I just carry tissues and ignore it.
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Dear Sick Day thread,
Today I am having a sick day. I had a headache this morning, but that was most likely due to the fact that I consumed copious amounts of beer last night.
Anyway the boy is here so we spent all day in bed. I don't have a headache any more!
Love
Lunchy
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That sounds like the best kind of sick day.
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i worked yesterday from 9am-3:30pm, and then 11pm-9am this morning. so i'm supposed to be off for the rest of the day but we are short-handed this week and it's stressing me out to NOT be at the office because i know there is so much i could be helping with. i slept for 3 hours but now i'm awake and still exhausted. i guess this is kind of like a sick day without being sick... i will try to enjoy it!
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I get migraines quite lot, but not as severely as I used to. My usual thing is just take a hot shower and sleep until it eases off. My doctor did give me anti nausea tablets but they tasted so disgusting that I threw up anyway.
I've had two bad colds in the last 6 weeks. Only way to deal with them is lots of tea (any kind, all tea is good) and sleep. I don't really feel like eating when I'm unwell.
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Oh no, I hate you guys.
I have the beginning of what looks like it'll be a really shitty cold. I hate you all, I jinxed myself.
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true story: from the time i posted in this thread to now i was getting sick, then i got sick, and then my superhuman immune system purged it entirely from my body in the form of giant globs of snot within a single day. by the time i woke up this morning my life was awesome again.
this pretty much illustrates my typical sick day. thanks supergenes!
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I used to basically be sick in some form or another from the moment it got even slightly cold to the end of spring, just coughing and stuffed up and miserable, but never miserable enough to justify days off (I think I've taken about three or four in my entire working life). Then a couple of years ago it pretty much stopped, which is weird because I'm treating my body way worse than I ever used to. I think I got tougher! ?