It Occurs to Me. I Have Not Had a Cold or Flu for Over a Year

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50. My friend's live in boyfriend had Covid and she didn't get it

Unlike most married couples, this couple was luvy-duvy...if you know what I mean

When he caught Covid, I asked her if they had been distancing in the same household and she said didn't wanna give me TMI (Too Much Information), but they had been having a robust sex life up until he developed Covid. She fully expected to get Covid, but she didn't.

I think sometimes it is just luck that we don't catch something..

OTOH, there is a such a thing as strong immune system.

I don't have a strong one, but I don't have a weak one either.

My grandmother, who was born in 1911, had scarlet fever as a kid. She claimed that because she had scarlet fever as a child, she was "never sick a day in her life"...She survived a burst a appendix as an adult pre-antibiotic years...

In 2000, she was living in assisted living and hated it. One night, she fell and broke her hip. She was in the bathroom when she fell and no one came to her aid for several hours because the call button was not within reach. It was the last straw for her. It was a sign that her "time was up".

It was also a bad, complex fracture which required surgery. However, they really could not repair her hip. She was not a candidate for hip replacement.

She told me that she wanted to die because, "I can't keep house anymore".....

So she devised a scheme: She refused to participate in any activity that would prolong her life. Her goal was to stay in bed as much as possible with the hopes of developing pneumonia and dying.

Her scheme did not work...

She never got sick. It took her three long years to die.

She never developed pneumonia.

She eventually developed necrosis within her hip and it spread to the rest of her organs.