Poll: Getting Sick in Time For Christmas...

[soren7550]

Being sick for Christmas myself (bad sore throat that has been effecting how I talk and how much for the past few days in case you were wondering), it got me remembering how someone in my family is always sick in time for Christmas (most of the time it would either be my older brother or youngest brother). So I was wondering, does this happen with any of you Escapist as well?

If you don't celebrate Christmas, then do you/someone in your family get sick for [insert your holiday here]?

 

[SilentCom]

I voted yes, every year because I used to get sick every year when the holidays came around. Not really anymore but usually someone in my family will be sick. Tis the season for colds and flus I suppose.

 

[GrimTuesday]

I don't think its every year someone gets sick, but it would seem this year me and all my four brothers have caught a rather nasty cold.

 

[KerryBamBerry]

I always get fluey a few days before christmas.. and my birthday in august. -_-'

 

[Broady Brio]

Any time I've got a party to go to. A few days before, I will get a sodding cold. Every. Damn. Time.

 

[teqrevisited]

I usually end up being ill for about a week either just before or on my birthday, the 14th. Didn't happen this year though.

 

[MintberryCrunch]

As far as I can remember, none of my family have ever actually been properly ill on Christmas Day (do you count a small cold as an illness?). Or I'm just seeing all my past life through rose- tinted, illness- free spectacles.

 

[robot slipper]

One Christmas I was very ill with some sort of insane flu that included insomnia and as a symptom, as well as the usual fever, lack of appetite, shakes etc. I hadn't slept for two days, and we had just moved into a new house. There was still some stuff that had to be moved from our old flat and my bf at the time still insisted that I come and help him, even though I was feverish and hadn't slept for two days, and he was quite capable of doing it himself. He soon changed his mind and suggested I go home when he found me halfway through dismantling a computer desk, curled on the floor in a foetal position clutching a drill and sobbing.

My mum was pissed off I didn't come round for dinner that Christmas, but I was really in no fit state.