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DH has his holiday virus…again

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SirChenjins · 04/07/2022 10:35

I know he can’t help it and I know he’s ill, but almost 30 years of this - nearly every time we’re going on holiday and nearly every Christmas he gets some stinking flu-like virus and recovers in time to go back to work. We’re meant to be in the car now, but he’s still in bed feeling like crap (he’s tested for covid several times and it’s not that). I do have sympathy for him, I really do as I know he’s really not well, but at the same time I’m feeling like ‘here we go again’, our very valuable annual leave from work and family time is spent with him not being well with his holiday virus.

Anyone else have this?

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Nidan2Sandan · 04/07/2022 18:00

I always get unwell for an event. Whether that is Christmas, a holiday, a sports event, a party etc.

I think it's usually because my body is worn out getting organised for these things that it just gives out.

Covid is more like a bad cold these days (I've had worse colds than when I had covid) so hopefully he'll be well enough to join you soon.

TakeMeToKernow · 04/07/2022 18:02

FinallyHere · 04/07/2022 12:48

We have had some management training on how to spot excess stress amongst our team.

Consistently getting sick at the start of each holiday is a textbook symptom that he is highly stressed.

He is relying on the stress response adrenaline to get him through each day. When work stops, the flow of adrenaline stops too and his body is very vulnerable to all everything that has been staved off because his body has been on high alert.

I don't want to worry you but this is a state taken really seriously where I work because he is on a well trodden path to burn out. Add in the high blood pressure, T2 and overweight etc and that really is a situation.

Best wishes for finding his way out of the maze soon. MN's own Low carb boot camp could really make a difference. DH used it to revers his T2 within a year. All the best.

Oh that’s so interesting! Among colleagues, the holiday lurgy is quite a known phenomena, we just chuckle (cos if you don’t laugh you're going to cry) and shrug our shoulders at it.

Vebrithien · 04/07/2022 18:50

I agree with a PP, holiday-itus is a well known phenomenon with teachers. Every holiday, I am ill for at least a week, often starting in the evening of the last day of term.

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