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[proximoception]

I knew day care was going to get us sick, but this much and this early? Breezed right through all our flu shots.

I'm declaring a restart to this new start Friday. And am going to kick it off with exercise if I can stand without trembling.

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[mendaciloquent.livejournal.com]

We bailed out of a family get-together over the holidays because it would involve daycare kids, which normally we'd endure, except that one of us (at the time) was only 4 weeks old. One of these daycare cousins has had overlapping low-grade illnesses for 18 months. His nickname should be Petri. Or Vector. He's been sniffling for most of his life. He'll probably have a kickass immune system when he makes it to grade-school, though, so whatever.

Anyway, as predicted, Vector got everyone else at the gathering sick. But the reach of the daycare germ is long. Even though we didn't go, it piggybacked to an uncle, then to my in-laws, and then finally made its way to our place last week. Flu shots didn't do shit. The only positive thing I can say is that by time it did get to us, my youngest was about 7 weeks and it seemed to bounce off him pretty well. (Ironically, Vector's mother is some kind of public health researcher.)

[proximoception.livejournal.com]

We've determined that we must have two separate bugs each, a cold one and stomach flu one, based on symptom timeframes. And seriously - she has not yet spent a full day at this place, just three partials. This had better be bad luck since we've already missed much more work than we've saved.

I used to be immune to diseases whenever I exercised a couple times a week. But that was before being exposed to a tribe of saliva swappers, so who knows if it'll hold up.

[mendaciloquent.livejournal.com]

Last year I was sick from October to May. I'd estimate it was about 7 or 8 distinct pathogens. Kind of amazing considering our kid doesn't go to daycare and neither does his friends. Brief trips to the public library and the grocery store are apparently enough to swab in every disease out there.

[proximoception.livejournal.com]

Uh oh.