I'm off playing with the grandkids today, so here is a blast from the past. Update: Almost a year later, still haven't been sick once, except for some slight food poisoning on Mother's Day.

Now that everyone is going into panic mode about the Swine Flu and all the other superbugs that are going around, I thought I'd share my big health secret with you. This is a big deal because I am the healthiest person I know - for reals! The last time I remember being sick was Christmas Day of 2007 and that was just a bad cold from pushing too hard to get all the presents bought and wrapped. Since then, nothing. No colds, no stomach flu, no anything. Even if half my family was sick with whatever crud was going around, I never catch it. The worst thing I've had is the occasional sinus infection.

Doctors say that you can expect to get 2-3 colds a year and the flu every 3-5 years, so I'm definitely ahead of the statistics. I get that many colds in a decade and I've never actually had the flu. Maybe a little 24 hour stomach bug once every few years, but that's never an actual fever and chills type flu.

I even managed to go through my whole pregnancy without taking a single sick day except for the last two weeks when they made me stay home and rest because I wasn't sleeping. I really dodged the bullet there because my poor sister was sick all nine months with all three kids. She was even still hurling in the delivery room - I would have been so miserable, I doubt if I would have had kids #2 & #3! I never even threw up once through either one of my pregnancies. I guess she got my share!

So what are all the things you're supposed to do to ward off illness - get lots of sleep, evercise, eat right, take vitamins, spray Lysol and Purell all over everything you touch, and wash your hands dozens of times a day. Oh and drink at least 8 glasses of water and drink lots of Orange Juice and take antioxidants, etc. Naaaah! I don't do any of those things, or at least not often enough to do any good.

You know what my real secret is? I just don't believe in getting sick. Yep, that's it. My big secret. I just don't buy into it. Whenever people around me are hacking and coughing and and fussing about passing around all their nasty germs, I just say no. Whatever they're selling, I am not buying and for some amazing reason, it works for me. I know people talk about the power of Positive Thinking, but I really believe in it, and I guess it works pretty well for me.

Of course, now that I'm bragging about all this stuff, I'll probably come down with all kinds of crud, but hopefully not. Anyway, you might give it a try. Just pretend that germs don't even exist and if they do, they're too darn puny to bother you in the slightest and see if it works for you. What the heck - can't hurt, can it? And it's a whole lot easier than taking all those vitamins and dousing everything with antibacterial goop!



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