>>I'm convinced now that it was a gastroenteritis virus and not food poisoning or infuenza. Tons of people at work had the same symptoms and they ran a story on the local news that exactly matched what I had. 1-2 days of vomiting, followed by 5 days of feeling unwell and lethargic. My wife slept on the couch and washed the light switches and door knobs (we live in a small apt) a few times a day. This seemed to stop it from spreading to her and our daughter. All three of us had the flu shot in November.. which doesn't always protect us.
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>>2006 was my worst year for sick days ever. I was probably sick a total of 30 week days, but between juggling flex days, I managed to get the actual sicks days used down to about half that. We kind of expected this since it was our daughter's first full year in daycare. Lots of people have this sick years when their kids start school.
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>Tell me about it! We went back to the Dark Ages in our house, what with poxes and bubos, rheums and galloping pyacky with red and blue bumbledinks, when the kids first went to school and started incubating all those maladies from the dirty little germ- and disease-infested gutter-snypes :-)
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>At one point I was almost at death's door with an attack of tonsilitis (very severe in adults, although I used to get it regularly as a kid). I do notice that I get fewer sicknesses nowadays - I guess I've been exposed to and thus innoculated against just about everything by now.

I contracted Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease from the daycare. Completely harmless, totally painful. Rare in adults, common in kids. Off for a week and could barely swallow that whole time. Ended up taking tylenol with codeine and just as I was feeling better, came down with the worst constipation of my life. In fact the first and only... which still makes in the worst... oh and the best.