Doing the math

[taiba]

I've been sick, on average, once/month for the past 13 months. On average, each time I was sick it lasted for a week. This means 13 weeks of being sick.

This is about 3 months. I have spent about a quarter of the past year dealing with some sort of virus. No wonder I'm pissed off about it.

Comments

[malica77]

You've also been in a school environment which exposes you to a lot more viruses than you're used to, so unfortunately it's not all that surprising that you've caught more viruses.

Averaging being sick for a week each time though is concerning. When doing project resource estimations we average 10 sick days per person per year. We joke that no one is allowed to get sick in the summer, but otherwise 1 day a month is roughly par for the course. Of course some people have no sick days and others have more, but you're more than a couple of standard deviations from the norm if you've needed that many sick days. :(

Any news from the doctors what's going on?

[taiba]

He's sent me off for blood tests, so we'll just have to wait and see if anything comes up. In the meanwhile, I'm going to be carrying a bottle of hand sanitiser. I hate that stuff and I doubt it'll do much good against viruses, but it's all I really *can* do at this point.

[malica77]

I've noticed that making a conscious effort to wash my hands more thoroughly has helped. At least, I think it has. It's my secret theory why I get less colds than some people who I know are healthier than me by far and yet fully admit to not washing their hands at all or very well. I hate hand sanitizer as well.

Of course it also helps if you try not to let your daughter brush your teeth with her tooth brush when she's sick, but it's so gosh darned cute, what can you do?

Hopefully you can figure something out. I know I've had a pretty rough year with Ivy the age she is, but at least I know why...