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Gender: Female
Status: Married
Age: 47
Sign: Capricorn

City: SUFFOLK
State: Virginia
Country: US
Signup Date: 10/29/2004

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Saturday, October 28, 2006 

Current mood:  recumbent
Category: Goals, Plans, Hopes
I'm one of those extremely annoying people who never gets sick (unless it requires an "ectomy" -- I get those kind of ailments every now and again) and I even have the cajones to brag about it to others.  "I never get sick!  It's because I don't eat meat.  Meat has all those nasty preservatives and hormones!"  In fact I was brazenly making that statement just last week.  I also expounded that I've never had a ticket -- "even a parking ticket!", and was instructed to knock on wood, but I just laughed and shrugged. 

Well, after getting roughly 18 hours of sleep in a 6 day period last week, and spending considerable time in places with multitudes of, and myriad germs (public restrooms, concert venue and the worst offender -- several incubatorplanes) I awoke yesterday with a scratchy, sore throat.  I shrugged it off and assumed it was just a little allergy problem.  By 10 pm when it was only getting worse and I could see my swollen glands in the mirror, I figured it was just a little cold and I'd kick it's ass in no time.  I don't think that's going to happen.  Besides the running nose, constant sneezing, watering eyes and fever, my head is pounding and my stomach is upset.  Wtf?  How do you mere mortals (without my superhuman immune system) stand to get a couple of these a year?! 

;)

I think I'll be very careful where I park for the next little bit.  Knock on wood.





SheStumbledIn

 
You're just what the doctor ordered.... someone to agree with me.  It's almost as good as having my mom rub Vick's Vapo Rub on my chest.  Thanks for the laugh!




 
Posted by SheStumbledIn on Saturday, October 28, 2006 - 4:22 PM
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Karen

 

I think god has plans for you.  He/she knows that you are falling behind on gh.  So, here is your forced time to lay on your comfy sofa and watch that very large screen you have in your living room.  It will be like a life sized Patrick Drake standing in front of you.  If that doesn't make you better I don't know what will.  Can I come over?  I can use me some life size Drake. 

btw,  I am a fellow carnivore and I have not been sick for a year or so.  By sick I mean sick with a cold.  I have some kick ass vitamins!  And yes, I did knock on my wood table.

Get well soon!

 

 


 
Posted by Karen on Saturday, October 28, 2006 - 6:25 PM
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Mick

 

Well, look at it this way Anaday, at least you didn't eat the ecoli tainted spinach!

As a carnivore I at least don't have to worry about that!


 
Posted by Mick on Thursday, November 02, 2006 - 2:35 AM
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Wanda

 
This is so similar to my experience in early September.  I had just finished telling a friend I almost never get sick, and the next day I was waylaid big time.  And what really made me laugh reading this (not laughing at you being sick, of course), is that I never get parking tickets... but I got one last week. Which I am contesting, but probably to no avail.
 
Posted by Wanda on Sunday, November 12, 2006 - 6:34 PM
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Robert Driscoll
Robert Driscoll

 
Based on your date of posting, I'm obviously quite late. But I've been out in la la land anyway. But I respond.

I never get sick as well. I am a post-vegetarian who still leans digestively in that direction. I didn't get sick when I didn't eat meat; I don't eat sick when I do. I drink like a fish. I work terrible hours that make workaholics look like pussies. I'm just built like a tank. I'm currently drinking a vodka, cranberry, and perrier, after eating sushi with two large sakis.

But enough about breakfast.

95% of what I purchase when it comes to fruit and vegetables comes from several awesome farmers markets that I am lucky enough to enjoy year around. My Saturdays, for example, involve a ritual, which include buying a double non-fat latte from a very cute barista in a drive-through coffee stand by my house, then hitting the farmers market in Vista, then spendinging the day in my classroom. I haven't bought an apple or a banana at a supermarket in years. In short: if it's not in season, I avoid it.

I think choosing what you eat in a careful manner is the key to living healthfully (though, unfortunately, the crud hits us all at one point or another; if you got hit, I'm next!). Living a vegetarian lifestyle forces one to do that; though I am no longer a vegetarian, I still essentially live that lifestyle, and the illnesses are few and far between.

I need to go and mix myself another drink.
 
Posted by Robert Driscoll on Saturday, December 09, 2006 - 3:58 AM
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