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I think I am seeing a pattern in my life of coming down with a virus on the first day of vacation, time and again.
Does anyone else have that going on?
catherine
6-25-15, 10:43am
I recently was doing a lot of travel for business. I came home on a Friday and knew I was coming down with something. I was REALLY worried because I had a full week of travel the following week. I interview doctors for a living, and it's excruciating when I'm talking to them, and passing them materials and I'm sniffling and coughing and sneezing the whole time--I'm afraid they're going to just run!
Well, I woke up Monday and my emergent cold was miraculously gone! I did all the research hale and hearty. But when I got home on Friday, it returned, and this time worse than before and I had a miserable cough/cold all the next week. But at least I was working from home.
I thought it was amazing that some kind of mind over matter forced my body to "behave" so I could do my job.
I have a son that does that. I think it's just a "release". The body waits until it knows it can rest. Every holiday or break he comes down with cold/virus symptoms.
When I was teaching I used to be susceptible to getting sick when the semester ended. It was like, "Okay, the frenzy of grading exams and term papers is over, you can collapse now."
An extreme example of "letting go" was my co-worker. He retired and dropped dead the next day.
He was an extremely conscientious worker and a good man.
catherine
6-25-15, 12:49pm
An extreme example of "letting go" was my co-worker. He retired and dropped dead the next day.
He was an extremely conscientious worker and a good man.
I have seen that more than once--maybe not dropping dead the very next day, but my neighbor retired, got a cancer diagnosis a couple of weeks later and was dead within the month.
We also had a couple of friends retire to FL in their 60s, and died shortly after. That's one of the reasons I'm NEVER moving to Florida. In fact, that's one of the reasons I don't plan on retiring any time soon (well, maybe it just makes me feel better that I CAN'T retire any time soon)
This used to happen to DH all the time, with every vacation/time off. I think it has to do with a change in the immune system, once the cortisol from stress lowers. Cortisol keeps your body on high alert.
It hasn't happened to him for many years.............'cause we haven't had a vacation in about 20. :(
The cortisol theory sounds reasonable to me...and I am sure there is a lot to the mind-body connection.
I just wonder why I can't "mind-control" my body into either NOT being sick AT ALL ... or into being sick during the worktime instead of vacation time...AND not being super stressed about missing work!
ApatheticNoMore
6-25-15, 6:25pm
It hasn't happened to him for many years.............'cause we haven't had a vacation in about 20.
yea the last time I took 2 weeks off was a decade ago. Yes that's right 10 years. Thank heaven at least I did have a period of unemployment in those 10 years (you can rest ... when you lose your job :)). The last time I took was it a full week off was over 2 years ago (although I do sometimes take the 3 work days of thanksgiving week).
awakenedsoul
6-25-15, 10:25pm
I knew a woman who used to get sick every year right after Nutcracker. (and Christmas.) She was English, and a very famous and highly respected ballet teacher. The Holidays just seemed to stress her out completely. She was a very sensitive person. She also was under a great deal of financial strain. She worried a lot about how she was going to support herself in her retirement. She ended up getting a brain tumor, and dying in her early seventies. She never really did retire...
Sorry you are going through this. I hope you are getting enough rest and relaxation on a regular basis.
Gardenarian
6-26-15, 2:33pm
That used to happen to me when I was working full time. Nothing like being in Hawaii with a bad case of strep throat :(
It seems to have gone away since I've been working part-time.
ApatheticNoMore
6-26-15, 3:20pm
Nothing like being in Hawaii with a bad case of strep throat
well of course plane and train trips and stuff will make people sick, why being crammed in small poorly ventilated spaces with people all over the world in who knows what state of health makes people sick isn't hard, your just surrounded by germs everywhere, plus in addition to maybe stressed out from travel.
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