I hate it too. My wife is a kindergarten teacher so she is constantly bringing home ‘cooties’ from those little rug rats. I’ve been lucky and haven’t contracted too many sicknesses from her but i had a wicked stomach bug that lasted over 4 weeks (giardiasis I believe, from drinking bad water).
I also spent Sunday in the ER with chest pains . That was a scare and a half. They believe it is just strained muscles in my chest wall. All tests came back good. Phew!
But 2 weeks ago I had all weekend problems breathing bad but not threatening,
Monday I woke up and could barely move 7 meters to my mobile breaking down could not breath, coughing the shit out of my lungs on the floor, having pulse of like 150
managed to call the ambulance
They put me on ECG monitor and gave me some stuff to help me and my blood pressure dropped like shit, they said ohh that’s not normal, my stomach turned upside down and I had the feeling blackening out any moment
seems I have to add an emergency inhalator to my EDC and have another for daily use from now on
You must howl and hurl rocks at the moon
And then snort the fur of a baboon
If these don’t do the trick
You were meant to be sick
I’m just kidding man , please get well soon
Yesterday that subject was also on dutch TV: the man-cold or the man-flu.
Testosterone makes us strong at the outside, but weakens our inner defenses.
Of course you (I - we) could take estrogen, but that makes us feel better once a year.
And make us feel worse every month.
BTW when TV-adds mention the one-week-a-month cyclus I often think:
dang, I must have missed out on her good week again!