Snot fair
I’d always heard that when you have kids who go to school or daycare, you would get sick constantly because of all the bugs they bring home, but soon you’d build up some superhuman immunity and never be under the weather again.
Bullsnot … which is the substance I think is emanating from my cranial orifices even as I write this. I have had roughly 58 colds this winter. Or, more accurately, 1 cold — which I caught in September and which remains lodged in my lungs and sinus passages today.
I’ve had a kid in daycare/nursery school for more than four years now — two the past two years. While each has the occasional sniffles, the little carriers seem to be remarkably healthy considering the number of bugs they’ve brought home to me in recent years. My question is when does my superparent immune system kick in? I should be like freaking Wolverine by now.
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March 13th, 2008 at 6:43 pm
I would have thought that your healthy lifestyle would offset your exposure to viruses and bacteria…
March 14th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
How about those of us who don’t have children but still “benefit” from the viruses we get from kids? We both ended up sick this week because we were around kids at the weekend who were just getting over sniffles. Of course, it is our fault for sharing from the community cesspool of germs disguised as a large bowl of Chex Mix, but hey, it’s a snack! I can’t turn it away.
March 17th, 2008 at 3:40 am
Every time one of my kids started kindergarten, it was a new set of germs, and I’d get sick. Actually, part of your problem is the career you’ve chosen … high-pressure journalism doesn’t leave a lot of time for lazing around pampering yourself so you won’t catch and keep the germs.