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Wednesday, December 9, 2009

  • I'm sick, and I'm going to work anyway. Sound familiar?

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    By Lylah M. Alphonse, on Wed Apr 2, 2008 4:03pm PDT

    I’m sick. Again.

    Of course, I’m at work. Why do you ask?

    The other night, my husband remarked that, in the past few months, both he and I have been sick more frequently than ever before. But why? Sure, we’re overworked, but not any more than we’ve always been. We’ve been eating more healthily, exercising more often — OK, that’s a lie, he’s been exercising, I’ve been, um… look over there! Something shiny!

    Really, though, we couldn’t figure out why we were caught in this cycle of sinus headaches and hacking coughs. We feebly tossed around a few more ideas (is it the weather? Do we need vitamins?) while my husband reminded L. to cover her mouth when she sneezed and I wiped O.’s streaming nose for the umpteenth time, and then it hit us …

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