When was the last time you got sick?

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This one's pretty self-explanatory. Whether it was something simple like the common cold or something more serious, when was the last time you got sick?

The last time I was sick was actually on the same day that I joined Bulbagarden, which was April of last year. I was experiencing some pretty bad stomach pain that day, so I spent most of my time laying down, taking things easy, and nursing myself back to health (or at least making myself feel better). I'd consider that experience to be one of the more unpleasant sick days I've had in recent memory, although spending time at Bulbagarden for the first time did make the day a lot better, and my sickness was thankfully limited to that one day.
 
Oof... for me, late 2014. I'm pretty good with hand-washing and hygiene to prevent getting sick, but in 2014, I went to the emergency room waiting to check on a friend of mine when a woman who was in agony from pneumonia sat next to me. She looked miserable, had a dangerously high fever, and was to be admitted as soon as they found a room available. I didn't think much of it since pneumonia isn't contagious.

Little did I know what she had was contagious and the very next day I started to feel the tickle in my throat. I didn't get the pneumonia because that in itself isn't contagious, but I did catch that massive flu bug that caused her pneumonia. I caught what she had, but I was fortunate that it didn't advance to pneumonia and was just miserable with the flu and its awful symptoms that lasted six weeks. It was the worst bug I have ever caught and it went to every single person in my family. It was notable because it took forever for all of us to recover. Usually we feel better from the flu in about 3 weeks at most. This took a month and two weeks to fully go away. That was a powerful little microbe.
 
I was so stressed out last year that somewhere either between the spring hell-semester and summer calc, or between summer calc and the fall hell-semester, I got stress-induced hives all over my body that lasted two weeks. No amount of changing and rewashing my clothes and sheets and towels made it go away. Eventually had to go to the ER and then an emergency appointment with my allergist and it went away with the meds they gave me in about 1-2 days but still, uuuugggghhhh.

I also had bronchitis at some point during the spring semester along with my friend who sat next to me in class cause there was some shitfaced jackass sitting behind us who kept coughing and apparently didn't know how to cover his damn mouth.
 
Right after Thanksgiving I got a cold/cough and after a few days it seemed like it was going away and then came back and the coughing got much worse. Turns out it was Bronchitis. I shouldve gone to the doctor sooner. I got meds and it cleared right up after a few days.
 
I was sick a few weeks ago. Fortunately it wasn't anything too bad, I just had a sore throat for a day or two and then it turned into a cough.
 
This Easter, I went to visit my family who all got flu one after another and I caught it too. Thankfully it was a light one and it hits me more as an allergy than the regular symptoms that are similar to a common cold, although I still had fever for a few days.
 
I had the flu back in February. It lasted for about 2 weeks.

I also had the flu back in 2015.

I'm thinking that I need to invest in a flu shot this year...
 
I don't remember the time that I was actually sick.

Because of my allergies I'm pretty much "sick" the whole year, as my nose is always stuffed.
But I haven't had a flu or something in ages.
 
An update since last time!

Likely due in no small part to the rising acceptance of masks here in the States in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, I really can’t remember the last time I got “sick” in the traditional sense of the word in the past… at least three years, I think. The closest thing to “sick” that I’ve gotten in recent memory was about a month or two ago when springtime was in full bloom, to which my body did not respond well! My allergies flared up for the first time in years, which manifested as a highly annoying runny nose that was most active when I first woke up each morning. The tissue box was my constant companion during these times, ugh. Thankfully, this was pretty much as bad as it got, and given how much worse I knew I could’ve had it, I almost didn’t mind the allergies all that much. Almost.

Meanwhile, the closest thing that I’ve been to “sick” before that was a little while before the beginning of the pandemic, during the holiday season. Due to complications with scheduling leave at my workplace, one of the relatives that I was living with at the time had to leave without me in order to avoid the holiday traffic rush, leaving me alone in the house as I awaited an Amtrak train that would come a few days later. In the meantime, I decide to do a little housecleaning, including dusting off a few particularly filthy shelves on the last day. I was a bit too ambitious, however, and I ended up having a huge cloud of dust explode in my face, which I unfortunately inhaled. By the time I was on the train a few hours later, I could begin to feel something settling in my throat, and right then and there, I knew that I wasn’t going to have a good time. Indeed, by the time I arrived at my destination, I ended up with a sore throat. That said, it wasn’t really that painful or unpleasant (mainly as I didn’t have any headaches or fever along with it, thank goodness), but rather just annoying that I ended up in what I knew was something that I could’ve prevented. At the very least, though, it did all made for a holiday season to remember, haha!
 
My last time being sick was a few weeks before Christmas. I had a very bad case of flu, which made me so cold that I bought another blanket and keep my clothes on just to have some heat... Which became almost a problem once I wake up in the middle of the night being full of heat. Even when the sickness was gone, I was still coughing and having mucus to spit out. Every evening I did the lemon + hot water and honey drink thing, and even if it barely worked, it eased the pain. I think this was the strongest case of me being sick, because even when I got the Covid, I wasn't THAT sick.
 
Ι did have a skin infection and had to take 8 days of antibiotics a few weeks ago, even got a very slight fever for about a day. It was around the neck and thus a bit painful and had trouble sleeping without painkillers for 3-4 days.

It also made me overall feel unwell and stressed because of my general health anxiety, I did have stomach problems for a day too. Plus regular seasonal asthma from an enviroment change that was unrelated to the original problem. Those were somewhat weird days.
 
I have no clue. It was probably February, or April of this year or something. Oh, and the last time I got COVID? August in last year. I was in bed and someone brought me something to drink. Then I forgot to cough into my elbow and I coughed on them, thus giving them COVID. I missed a week of school.
 
Specifically COVID, only got it once last July, thankfully I had done all three shots I was allowed at the time, and it was quite mild. I have had a couple of flu cases when younger much worse than that.
 
I got a COVID shot in 2020 (a swab) and was laughing the entire time (because, my nose was ticklish at the time, it’s not anymore). But the second time? I threw a massive fit like a 3 year old during the ones after. Yeah, I was SUPER immature. That was starting in early 2022. I’ve had COVID twice (that month in 2022 and August 2022).
 
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