Constant illnesses in the family getting me down ...... is it just me?

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Just a run of illness since the start of December...... chicken pox.... coughs... virus.... sickness bug.... husband has a comprised immune system so catches everything.
I've had it!. I'm exhausted and tired. I luckily haven't actually picked up much of it but I feel like I've reached my peak with it. I just want to leave the house and scream.
My 3 year old bless her has had one thing after the other. Like most toddlers she struggles, is emotional, tired and tantrums all day. It's relentless and I'm at my wits end. I try my best to be the best parent but I am constantly on the edge of tears. I try to stay calm as I realise she probably doesn't even understand.
It makes me want to leave for a small period of time..... Obviously I won't. No family nearby to help, not that it is even their job or expected.
We are supposed to go on holiday tomorrow and won't be able to go because husband is poorly and daughter still has a virus. Don't even know why I booked jt!
Don't even know what I am posting this for really. Just a vent I guess. I'm in the bath and having a cry.
I'm scared to take her back to childcare as I don't want her to catch anything else! I know toddlers get illnesses and probably everyone feels like this at some point.
I guess I'm just fed up and just need an outlet.
My husband is great and is a fantastic dad and equal parent. But everything she gets he gets so he is run down and needs rest. It is affecting our relationship and I am so fed up.

Yes yes it's good to hear we are not the only ones, with 2 kids picking everything under the sun up for different settings, we are just a melting pot for every illness known to humanity.
I'm hoping there's light in the tunnel somewhere (as I listen to our 1 year old coughing and muttering)

Welcome to the club.

No it's not just you mine has been sick quite a bit this year. As well As the other children in the neighbourhood. She also got a very nasty and scary case of strep throat and she's only 2. It was horrible. I remember getting strep when I was 14 and it was hard to cope back then. She ended up in the hospital because she wouldn't eat or drink and she just quietly laid in her bed with tears rolling down her face.

My immune system has kicked into over drive and I have somehow only gotten sick once! It's been a hard year with illnesses according to the nurses in the hospital. They believe it's postpandemic catch up basically.

When my twins were small they were sick so often and I was so sleep deprived I used to fantasise about being sent to prison. Locked up 23 hours a day with nothing to do but sleep and read. It's a form of torture not being able to rest when tired. I apreciate youur DH has an illness but you will too if you don't prioritise yourself.

Get some Sambucol it's brilliant

I feel this deeply. Although I’m also getting everything and partner isn’t. It’s not just been since December for me / us though, it’s been for at least 14 months now. I am so run down and exhausted. Since June I have had Covid (which triggered LC for me), then strep 3x with antibiotics needed twice, then an ear infection, then flu (proper can’t move flu), then a cold, then Covid which ruined Xmas for everyone, now I have a cold again. LO is 2 and since starting childcare it’s been horrible, she’s even been up the hosptial with viral wheeze twice and once needed admitting. I literally never get over one bug to be greeted by another. It’s so demoralising. I take sambucol so does LO, plus all the things you’re supposed to take like zinc and vit C. I’m irritable, on edge of tears, also want to just leave for a few weeks (and again won’t but I understand your sentiment). I’m currently sitting in the loo and googling if anyone else feels this way, and I found this post - so you’re not alone.

My DS is 11 weeks old and I've worked out he's had a cold for 8 of those weeks. It's just been relentless, poor boy. Didn't have this with DD and I'm wondering if it's because he's a winter baby. But, of course, 1 of us catches something in this house, we all come down with it. Can totally sympathise with you, it's exhausting and really annoying at this point.

Yes. This autumn/winter has been ridiculous since I've had my first baby. We are all permanently ill - including my partner who previously almost never caught anything.
I'm terrified this is just how it is now what with all the things they bring home from school. It is constant colds and bugs.
It's really hard because I absolutely love the baby groups we go to and I feel like it's important for her to see other people than just me every day but it seems like any time we actually go to them after getting over an illness we pick up another one. I'm just hoping it gets better with spring...

Same here. My DS is 22 months and since mid Jan has been ill 3 times with a temp each time. Currently in bed with another temp... its this normal to have this many temperatures I'm such quick succession?

It is relentless and tiresome. You're not alone. Some years defo worse than others though. In 2022 we started the year with chicken pox, then D&V, then the kids swapped so we basically had a month of back to back rashes and vomit. After that it was scarlett fever and some other unknown temperature bringing virus. We had a week of wellness at the end of March, then I had a bereavement. Then my husbands father was seriously ill so he disappeared to the continent for 3 weeks leaving me with a 1 year old, 4 year old and a month into dealing with the unexpected loss of my brother. Once my FIL was better my father got ill. Later in the year we booked a trip to try and escape all the woes but had to miss it due to illnesses. It was RIDICULOUS. Honestly compared to that year any run of standard winter illnesses seem manageable. But you're 100% not alone. It's grotty!