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Stress and depression can be a big cause of getting more ill than normal, even if you're fit and healthy
This, most definitely this.
something that requires tissues and/or lemsip; and I feel sub-100%; possibly resulting in WFH or canceling social engagements or bike rides - a couple of times a year.
something where I'd be unable or unwilling to go for a 30 minute walk outdoors - can't remember the last time that happened. certainly not in the last 5 years.
I'm not in the presence of junior germ spreaders so I'm rarely ill, but if I was getting ill that badly, that often then I'd be getting my immune system checked out 😕
I don’t count the various aches and pains that I’m living with as being ill, they’re largely due to injuries caused by coming off a bike, work-related injury and just generally getting older! The last time I was really ill was around 2015/16, when I caught something flu-like that lasted three months, and was just weeks of misery with my head seemingly at one end of a wormhole from Planet Snot! I had no idea that sinuses could produce such vast quantities of green goo, I was raiding the loos for bog rolls, I was going through one a day.
Such a relief when it cleared up. I think it was working inside a big metal box with a bunch of other people, and not much ventilation.
Since leaving that job, which was also responsible for the severe arthritis in my thumb joints, I rarely get more than minor sniffles 🤧.