Hellobee Boards Topic: Did you get sick a lot as a child?

Hellobee Boards Topic: Did you get sick a lot as a child? https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 25 Jul 2026 04:35:59 +0000 Mommy Finger on "Did you get sick a lot as a child?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-get-sick-a-lot-as-a-child#post-1385689 Wed, 29 Jan 2014 18:34:04 +0000 Mommy Finger 1385689@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I always got sick on holidays. So that was fun. spaniellove on "Did you get sick a lot as a child?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-get-sick-a-lot-as-a-child#post-1383780 Wed, 29 Jan 2014 10:30:46 +0000 spaniellove 1383780@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I never got sick and always got perfect attendance awards! But I was notorious for my allergic reactions and constantly had hives. It took years for kids to stop asking, "Eww, is that contagious?!" mrs.shinerbock on "Did you get sick a lot as a child?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-get-sick-a-lot-as-a-child#post-1383682 Wed, 29 Jan 2014 10:08:02 +0000 mrs.shinerbock 1383682@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I had ear aches all the time. Like 3 or 4 a year until I was 8 or 9 and at least 1 a year until I was 16. It sucked and I had to have tubes put in twice. I still am pretty susceptible to upper respiratory infections that go around. Other than that, I wasn't really sick often. mrsjyw on "Did you get sick a lot as a child?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-get-sick-a-lot-as-a-child#post-1383661 Wed, 29 Jan 2014 10:03:59 +0000 mrsjyw 1383661@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Not really. I have a good immune system I think. My bro was sicker more than I was! regberadaisy on "Did you get sick a lot as a child?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-get-sick-a-lot-as-a-child#post-1383559 Wed, 29 Jan 2014 09:44:48 +0000 regberadaisy 1383559@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @Reese: Yup. He is almost always sick during the winter. LO gets a sniffle he gets a full blown cold. When we visit my family he is always sick when we get back. I have a niece and 3 nephews. Poor guy! He takes such good care of himself too. mrs. 64 on "Did you get sick a lot as a child?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-get-sick-a-lot-as-a-child#post-1383549 Wed, 29 Jan 2014 09:43:22 +0000 mrs. 64 1383549@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I got sick all the time as a kid. I had terrible allergies and constant sinus infections. I found some old report cards and I missed around 13 days a year. I get sick much less often as an adult. pui on "Did you get sick a lot as a child?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-get-sick-a-lot-as-a-child#post-1383518 Wed, 29 Jan 2014 09:36:56 +0000 pui 1383518@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Not really. I'd say I got sick a normal amount. Reese on "Did you get sick a lot as a child?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-get-sick-a-lot-as-a-child#post-1383504 Wed, 29 Jan 2014 09:32:37 +0000 Reese 1383504@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @locavore_mama: He obviously didn't eat enough dirt, fall from enough trees, and swim in enough rivers :silly: Does he still get sick often now? Argh. How annoying regberadaisy on "Did you get sick a lot as a child?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-get-sick-a-lot-as-a-child#post-1383466 Wed, 29 Jan 2014 09:24:50 +0000 regberadaisy 1383466@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Nope but DH was sick ALL the time. And he still is so that whole theory about being a sick child but not a sick adult is moot! @Reese: hah my DH debunks your theory. They literally had acres and acres of uninhabited land in their backyard. He spent most of his childhood "back there". Reese on "Did you get sick a lot as a child?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-get-sick-a-lot-as-a-child#post-1383456 Wed, 29 Jan 2014 09:23:20 +0000 Reese 1383456@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Nope. I still rarely get sick. I equate it to growing up and living like a feral child (OK not really - but we had a ton of freedom outdoors). We were exposed to all sorts of craziness. Mae on "Did you get sick a lot as a child?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-get-sick-a-lot-as-a-child#post-1383455 Wed, 29 Jan 2014 09:23:13 +0000 Mae 1383455@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Nope. I was always a really healthy kid. littlek on "Did you get sick a lot as a child?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-get-sick-a-lot-as-a-child#post-1383440 Wed, 29 Jan 2014 09:20:38 +0000 littlek 1383440@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Rarely. I was one of those people that tried for perfect attendance. I'm a dork. Mrs. Pen on "Did you get sick a lot as a child?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-get-sick-a-lot-as-a-child#post-1383431 Wed, 29 Jan 2014 09:19:39 +0000 Mrs. Pen 1383431@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I didn't get sick often. Even when my siblings and cousin had the chicken pox on three different occasions, I never caught it. So odd. I ended up getting the vax for it as a teen but I wonder if I already had some built up immunity. Rubies on "Did you get sick a lot as a child?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-get-sick-a-lot-as-a-child#post-1383407 Wed, 29 Jan 2014 09:14:16 +0000 Rubies 1383407@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I never got sick and even now as an adult I don't. However, when I DO get sick, I get REALLY sick. Mrs. Pickle on "Did you get sick a lot as a child?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-get-sick-a-lot-as-a-child#post-1383399 Wed, 29 Jan 2014 09:12:49 +0000 Mrs. Pickle 1383399@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I was rarely sick. I had the chicken pox once and the flu once. lilteacherbee on "Did you get sick a lot as a child?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-get-sick-a-lot-as-a-child#post-1383349 Wed, 29 Jan 2014 09:01:07 +0000 lilteacherbee 1383349@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I missed half of the days in both first and second grade. I had a rare intestinal disorder that didnt even have a name back then (similar to Hirschbrung's Disease I think). My colon was stretched to the size of an adult's when I was 7 amd it didnt function correctly. I ended up having 3 surgeries in a year, including attaching/reversing a colostomy bag which I wore for 4 months. I was only 7, but I remember lots of it very well, like being in he hospital, eating only jello for what seemed like forever, getting stuck by needles a million times. I was terrified of doctors and any sort of medical stuff for a long time, but pregnancy forced me to get over most of it. I'm fine now as long as I take medicine everyday. I know I'm blessed because the colostomy was the last resort and it had a 50/50 chance of working. I don't know what would have happened if it failed. Now that I'm a parent, I can't imagine how mine held it together during that time. It's so scary to think of my baby going through something like that. That said, I rarely got sick (like normal people sick). I hardly ever had colds, I've never had the flu, etc. I think the universe decided to give me a break! skibobrown on "Did you get sick a lot as a child?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-get-sick-a-lot-as-a-child#post-1383326 Wed, 29 Jan 2014 08:49:52 +0000 skibobrown 1383326@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I was sick *all the time* when I was a kid. DH on the other hand was never sick. DD seems to have his genes. She isn't even quite 2 years old, and she hasn't missed a day of daycare in so long that I can't even remember when her last fever was. I think it was this past summer. She got sick plenty her first year of daycare, but nowhere near as often as all of the other kids. Now she never gets sick (knock on wood). I'm kind of terrified of having a second child who has my genes and gets sick all the time... Anagram on "Did you get sick a lot as a child?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-get-sick-a-lot-as-a-child#post-1383319 Wed, 29 Jan 2014 08:46:48 +0000 Anagram 1383319@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I never had any major illnesses, so I didn't miss a ton of school but I would get massive, awful stomach bugs a couple times a year. Once when I was 12 I threw up 18 times in one day. I couldn't even sit up in my bed without throwing up and my mom kept bringing me ice chips because I was dehydrated but then I would throw up clear. And we were traveing so this took place in a hotel. Awesome. My parents also took us to California to Disneyland once and I got a stomach bug on the first day so we all had to go back to the hotel and my brothers and sisters were so mad at me because we were only there like 1 hour before I started throwing up. Then they got in trouble because my dad let them drive a golf cart at the hotel and my brother wrecked it. LOL I also got a resistant strain of a staph infection when I was around 7-8. My mom claims it came out of nowhere but I vaguely recall scraping my leg on a rusty nail that was coming out of a bookshelf (I was trying to climb the bookshelf..yup, I was that kid). Anyway, I was in the hospital for that one. And I got dysentery when I was 15 one summer when I was in Vietnam. I was so sick for so long that then I developed really bad thrush in my mouth. That was horrible. I think I have a very weak stomach that is susceptible to bacteria. Mrs. Bee on "Did you get sick a lot as a child?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-get-sick-a-lot-as-a-child#post-1383232 Wed, 29 Jan 2014 08:05:26 +0000 Mrs. Bee 1383232@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I rarely got sick. I think I only missed 5 days total in elementary school when I had the chicken pox, but the whole school caught it then -- 3 kids were in class when I returned. My brother on the other hand got sick a lot... super high fevers and rashes all the time, but he eventually outgrew them. Charlie got an award for perfect attendance! But he is sick today so he is missing his first day. I'm pretty amazed that he hasn't gotten sick until now with the brutal winter we've had and since he's around hundreds of kids daily. Did you get sick a lot as a child?