Is it just around me or are people a lot sicker this winter?

[Twiglett]

colds, chest infections, skin infections, sinus problems

everyone I know is suffering / has suffered and isn't shaking it off as quickly as can be expected

what's going on or is it just us?

nope, it's us too.

I haven't been ill in months and month, but feel like crap right now.

same here
ds, do and dd and me all had mild cold about 4 weeks ago. GREAT we thought, didn't we gt of LIGHTLY this year...
Then ds brought home tummy bug, dd dutifully caught it as did I, in onc comical pose we were all throwing up together in the same bathroom, using bath sink and toilet
ahhh how sweet.
Dp was working away that week jammy sod
Then dd's mild cold turns into tonsilitis.
So does mine
We get over it with antibiotics
then last week dd gets viral pneumonia, hackng cough and enough snot to make Rudolph slide all the way back to the Soth Pole.
Then of course with dp working away again, I get a really bad cold which I still have.
Ds is coming down with it, my mum has it and DP is...
you guessed it
Working away and free of it.....
you have to laugh, we ll i would but it would lead to me coughing my lungs up...

We've been busy at work, but then we always are at this time of year. Ill with things we wouldn't normally see so much of though, it seems to me.

you know when you ring the school or the nursery to explain your child absence and the secretary chants
Another One down in 7B Doreen - as if there is some sort of office lottery on it....