Do you always get sick about the same time every year? Is there some trigger in your life that gets you ill?

-- Anonymous, July 10, 2000

Answers

I get sick alot of times when I travel to different altitudes as well. It sucks because it always happens when I have the best time or I need to be well for something special! Alot of it probably has to do with all of the stuff in the air up there and here too. When you go from someplace that has alot of pollen and crap in the air and then you go to Connecticut where there isn't alot of smog and stuff to mess up your allergies it sends them on a ride from hell!

I hope you feel better!

-- Anonymous, July 10, 2000

almost everytime i fly. planes disgust me.... they're nothing but airproof capsules that harbor germs and never get aired out. i hate touching anything when i'm on a plane.

-- Anonymous, July 10, 2000

I usually start getting sick around the same time that I realize I haven't paid my bills again. And in the past year or so, I get sick about every two months, when my friend Mike decides it's time to start actively raising money for our film. I think I'm allergic to anything having to do with money. : )

I also seem to get sick at around the same time that I decide I'm bored with whatever it is that I'm doing, be it work or hanging out with the same people all the time. Does that happen to anyone else? It's like I'm trying to avoid doing whatever it is that I'm bored with by getting sick enough to stay home so I can veg out in front of South Park all day. Like that doesn't get boring after a few days. Sheesh.

no extra day -- independent filmmaking fun! whee!

-- Anonymous, July 10, 2000

I never get sick, because I eat no vegetables. Therefore, my immune system does not break down like the immune systems of the members of the vegetable culture. Fools.

-- Anonymous, July 11, 2000

I get sick whenever the old body feels the need. No particular triggers or times of year, just whenever I feel like it.

-- Anonymous, July 11, 2000

Whenever I go on holiday - without fail. And our holidays always involve long flights, which makes it even worse. As soon as I stop working my body seems to celebrate by packing up.

-- Anonymous, July 11, 2000

When the weather starts to change in the spring or the fall I get sick... and if I hang around with college students I sometimes get sick. College students are disease farms, man. You have kids from all over the country bringing in their home-town germs, letting them incubate in a perfect environment of alcohol and no sleep...

-- Anonymous, July 11, 2000

yeah, i get sick monthly. i am cursed. i am the girl who sits in class with the box of tissues and a gallon of orange juice-vitamin c fortified, of course. because of my militant mother and my years of enforced perfect attendance, i don't take sick days. i don't know how. for me now, having a cold is almost normal... however now i seem to be bypassing the cold and going straight for the hard core shit, last two times it was bronchitis and then a sinus infection. i swear, i have hardly any immune system. either that or it's never really had time to recover.

-- Anonymous, July 11, 2000

when i smoke pot. without fail. i don't do it often, because i don't really enjoy it, but whenever i do, i lose my voice and get kind of a sultry kathleen turner thing going on. it lasts for a week and i have to quit smoking - any substance - until my voice comes back. (i had no voice, for the record, the weekend my boyfriend graduated and i met his parents for the first time. it was embarassing. i claimed allergies to his room.)

does that peg me as a cynical, disinterested college student? i'm not. my boyfriend's old roommate was just a pot head.

-- Anonymous, July 11, 2000

I get sick when I try to have fun. When I give up a week night of bed by ten in exchange for a night of too much dancing, drinking and smoking. It never fails. My twenty-six year old body has gotten way to use to the responsible, full time, bills to pay, healthy eating me, to put up with my party shit.

-- Anonymous, July 11, 2000

I get stomach cramps every month does that count as being sick? When I get colds etc it's usually when I can least afford the time off work, like the week after I get back from vacation - cold hits lol.

-- Anonymous, July 11, 2000

I used to get sick *all the time*, back when I worked in offices. The forced, stale air was horrible, and everybody would haul in icky germs their kiddies brought home from school, which they'd then smear all over my phone while I was away from my desk (which was as often as possible).

Now that I work at home, I almost never get sick. Is it (1) the fresh air, (2) the lack of outside germs,(3)no longer having the stress of trying to be nice to people, or (4) drinking lots and lots of water? Or some combination of the above?

-- Anonymous, July 11, 2000

I get sick if I don't get enough sleep. I can usually feel it coming, I can tell when my body is going into revolt. The dry scratchy throat, the vaguely tender roof of my mouth. My body generally gives me 2 days of warning so that I can catch up on the sleep I need. If I obey, all hell breaks loose.

Well, that and food poisoning. I seem to get food poisoning more than most folks.

-- Anonymous, July 11, 2000

Doh! I meant to say "If I *don't* obey, all hell breaks loose."

Proofread, proofread, proofread!

-- Anonymous, July 11, 2000

i never get sick and i am a vegan/vegitarian (theroy proved wrong Chito). i do lose my voice and cough up a lung when around smoke, but that's not my immune system- just my bronchitis rearing it's ugly head.

-- Anonymous, July 11, 2000

I used to get sick all the time. I'd had pnumonia 3 times. I never took sick days, either. Still don't. I don't care what's wrong with me. Until I get cancer, I'm going to work. Now that I've put mind over matter, I only get sick when I change altitudes. When I moved from Quebec to Alberta, I was sick for over 2 months, on and off. When I moved back, it was a bit better. I was only sick for a month. Yay! I've learned to listen to my body. It tells me when it's tired or stressed out. So I'll get extra sleep, or go to the Cottage for a weekend. Unfortunately, mind over matter doesn't work for hangovers, food poisoning (that's a bad one for me, I have no gag reflex to bring up nasty food with. A mixed blessing), sex related injuries, or pink-eye. I think I've had fucking pink-eye 5 times in the past 3 years. Too bad there isn't a vaccine for it.

-- Anonymous, July 12, 2000

I get sick when I am depressed, or when I am under too much stress. I have a fever right now. Argh.

-- Anonymous, July 12, 2000