First, I’ll tell you a bit about my own experience with simply “getting sick”.
Throughout my childhood, I can remember getting sick every year at about the same time, as though I were on some sort of annual schedule. It was so routine; everyone else in school has a cold? I get a cold. It always seemed to hit me during the holidays...I woke up one Christmas with mumps...so a lot of my childhood memories of “the most wonderful time of the year” have to do with me lying in bed feeling lousy.
As I grew a little older, that all calmed down a bit, but then in high school I got pneumonia really bad, and that was just a terrible experience.
And then after that...I almost never got sick. The college student, working, single-mom years...healthy! Then my immune system “woke up” and went into overdrive, indiscriminately destroying everything in its path, be it friend or foe.
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