If you work around sick people a lot

Oh, one doesn't have to work near sick people, just living with someone who works or goes to school outside the home can bring illness in. I am just now feeling better after a horrible weekend and first two days of this week. Mine was a head cold that made my head feel like it was in a vise and I could barely get out of bed, though I did force myself to read one paragraph of my schoolwork Monday, but that was all I could do..Today I am busy catching up, got my poetry done and working on my Communications and History today..Then I will work on my Art reading this weekend..:)

I do hope that you will feel better soon. we have a similar sort of bug going around too and some of the apartment owners where I work have also been stricken. fortunately I work in my office alone so I am not likely to catch anything from anyone. However, I do have a fragile stomach as when anything emotional happens then I am losing it literally from one or both ends Get well soon. Have been losing it from one end for the past 48 ours due to a family drama. But don't feel to talk about it. It will get worked out and then I may post

I am not a social person, and prefer to make money doing my own thing. In my case it's everything from little things like MyLot, to big things like promoting the book I published in 2005. However, there are other ways to get sick. My husband is on some crappy (pun intended, because that's what it makes him do!!|) medication, and it's a good thing I'm not sick, or we'd be fighting over a toilet! haha I am feeding him the BRAT diet (Banana, rice, apple sauce, toast) to help with the crap, and keeping gatorade and stuff around to keep him hydrated.

Sometimes I think we can ward off getting sick and then it just seems every 5 to 10 years we finally catch something and then we are sick for a long time. Hope you feel better real soon.

I don't work any longer, but when I did it was always a problem. On one hand you don't want anyone else getting sick. On the other hand, you might not get sick days and don't want to risk losing the money. I hope you can get a lot of sleep and feel better soon!

I'm sick too. My daughter was sick and still is. I've been sick about 5 days now. If you are around sick people very much you are bound to catch something. Hope you get to feeling better soon.

Oh man, that's miserable!

I don't blame you..it's been a while since I had the flu...a couple of years. I hadn't had it for 26 years before that and that is when I had the Hong kong flu. I had it so hard that I had to crawl to the bathroom....so I think in some ways I built up an immunity. I work around the public too...but where we work we wash our hands twice then use sanitizer and for a couple of years no one has gotten the flu....hopefully you will be over it soon!

I do hope you feel better very soon GG. I suppose you build up immunity to some things, but there will always be something that catches you when you are exposed to bugs on a daily basis.

That's why I'm pretty much a compulsive hand washer--and am working on turning my boyfriend into one as well. One of the best things you can do is wash your hands. Drink some mint tea. It will help settle your stomach. Hopefully, you will be feeling better soon.

It's the one thing I don't miss about being out of work..catching the "lurgy" as we call it over here. You can't quite pinpoint what the bug is so that's why it's called the "lurgy." Never used to put it down on sick notes though lol. Hope you're feeling better my friend.

Oh dear... All I can say is take some rest, drink lots of water and fluids and also if it starts getting a little severe, consult a doctor. I have been suffering from Ulcerative colitis since more than 11 years now (and it was diagnosed only in 2005) Though medics claim that there are no known reasons, I am quite certain that I might have caught it at work and or travel as I was a frequent traveller those 1999-2000/1 years.

GardenGerty ..Hope you feel better soon...there seems to always be new strains of viruses and so we have to keep building up immunity against them. My daughter is an elementary school teacher and it seems she is always sick during the fle seasons ...

I never had that. Only if I work with people with a lot of problems or who are mentally ill it will have effect of me. I will be out of energy. Which is why you mostly are forced to quit for some time doing the job. They know it will infect you. I wish you a good health.

So sorry to hear you under the weather get well soon I know its not pleasant at all think was about a year ago Grand duaghter brought that home from school went thru all of took over a month to get it out of the house!

I guess a lot of rest and liquids are in store for you. Hope you feel better soon.

Sorry you're not feeling well. It doesn't sound pleasant. So far I've been lucky, knock on wood. I have not gotten sick at all this winter. Actually nobody I work with has been sick either except the one girl who's pregnant.

It is hard not to get sick when you work in close contact with people that are sick often. I use to work in the mental health field providing one on one services for children & adults with mental retardation, developmental disabilities. Our company had 4 group homes and several clients that still lived at home with their families. Working in that sort of environment it is hard not to catch some sort of bug. I hope you feel better.

I am sorry to hear that.It sounds as if you got acute gastroenteritis which is usually due to eating the food with pathogenic bacteria unlike respiratory tract infection.I wonder whether you have a meal in the cafeteria or not.

I hope that you are feeling better by now. I am thankfully very healthy and usually do not pick up things going around as far as physical illnesses. But I live in senior citizen housing and well over half the population has all kinds of health issues. And they talk about it and they talk about and they talk about. They never stop talking about illness. And they never get well. I think they make each other sick and sicker by the constant reinforcing of illness. Maybe if they stopped talking about their aches, pains, medications and doctors, they would begin to feel better. I have told others that the most dangerous words in my complex are to ask someone "how are you"? I avoid stopping to talk to most of the other residents. I am always friendly and say hello but keep going.