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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.
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>I contracted Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease from the daycare. Completely harmless, totally painful. Rare in adults, common in kids.

Funny, foot and mouth disease is a very severe disease in cattle. You may remember that a very large propn. of the UK's herd had to be destroyed a few years back, because of an epidemic.

>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.

So nothing could go in and nothing come out.

>In fact the first and only... which still makes in the worst... oh and the best.

Why the best?

My worst problem, in fact the worst thing that's ever happened to me, was a trapped nerve in my neck that I had a year ago (still had it at this date). It was like banging your funny bone constantly, someone constantly punching you in the upper arm - triceps (due to muscular spasm), felt like a thrombosis under the arm, aching muscles in the shoulder (crying out for a massage but it was all referred pain) and of course a pain in the neck (literally and metaphorically). Any movement of the arm (e.g. when just walking) brought it on acute so the only respite I could get was to lie still and support my axilla with a cushion. I had 2 weeks off just lying on the sofa, unable to do anything -so boring.