I'm the same way, Maven. It's the worst when I'm going through a really busy time at work and I feel like I just don't have TIME to get sick. I get a flu shot every year because I don't want to get sick.

Everyone at my workplace has been sick over the past month. I work in a university so there are lots of students who are sick too. I have just been feeling like I'm in a giant pool of germs all the time. I have been washing my hands very well and using Purell many, many times a day and taking my vitamin C because I was so afraid of getting sick too.

Anyway, I got sick anyway. It hit me Monday morning. I stayed home on Tuesday -- thinking that if I rested up and took my echinacea and vitamin C and Cold FX, I would get better. I did feel better on Wednesday and put in a long day at the office trying to get caught up, but then felt even worse today. So, I had to miss another day at work. Now I'm stressing because I have SO much work to do and I'm too sick to do anything about it. Ugh. So, I do my best to try not to get sick and I TRY not to get too stressed about, but sometimes we just can't prevent it. At least it's just a cold and it will get better.

I'm WAY more paranoid when there's a stomach bug going around. One of my biggest phobias is throwing up, so I can't stand to be around anyone who has a stomach virus and I'm hyper-vigilant about not getting germs on my hands when there's something like that going around.