I don’t remember suffering from any flu symptoms as a kid, aside from perhaps a single terrible reaction to a random nausea medication.
Whenever I got sick with a head freezing or the flu, I was constantly the a single in the family who reuseed the quickest.
Occasionally I would go as long as 2 years separate from getting sick enough to miss a day of school. At that age you almost want an excuse every once in a while to miss school, but that’s hard to do when you’re the a single kid in the family that rarely gets sick. While I’ll let my teenagers have a “mental health day” every once in a while if they’re doing well at school, my parents did not share this mindset whatsoever. Plus, I’m finally getting shafted with some of the sicknesses I avoided as a kid. I thought that I was simply getting exposed to more germs through my teenagers plus that was why I kept getting bronchitis every year, even though I l acquired that instead it’s due to having asthma now. Contrary to my disposition in childhood, I am extremely sensitive to indoor air pollen levels nowadays. For instance, I’m getting a UV-C bulb replacement in my a/c tomorrow. The UV-C bulb in my a/c helps sanitize the air in my house. It can kill both airborne bacteria plus fungal spores as the air cycles through the air handler. Between my UV-C bulb plus my special a/c filters, my indoor air pollen levels is much better these afternoons. I’ll do whatever I can to breathe better in my home.