That has been me this whole winter. It started off with pneumonia in November and each time I feel better, I only have a few days of wellness before I am back to being sicker than a dog!

This last cold has been horrible. I feel pretty OK part of the time, but then I get coughing fits that HURT. Oh do they hurt. Add to that I spend a GOOD 3/4 of the day fighting off a sinus headache!

I have spent a fair amount of time thinking about why I have been so sick, so often this past winter. It can;t be something like black mold or mesothelioma becuase the house is relatively good and we do not have problems with moisture. Plus, becuase of Blake’s asthma we have special filters on the furnace and all the air intakes of the house.

What it *could* be is that Logan is in Pre-K this year, which means twice a day I am at the school – drop off and pick up, and once a week I am there for an hour for music class, exposed to snotty, germy children – which is new for me because my older boys either get a ride with their grandparents or go to the school on their own. So it could be the extra exposure to germs.

It could also be the extra pounds I have packed on in the past year. If I understand correctly, people whio have extra weight often have lower immunities and therefore cannot fight off infections and illness as well as a healthy weight person.

Then again, it could be the multi-vitamin I stopped taken. For the past ten years I have taken either a prenatal vitamin or a one a day woman’s pill, but when I started having circulatory problems and getting dizzy, in an effort to self diagnose, I stopped taking the pills to see if that would help and even though the dizzy was explained away by an inner ear imbalance ( no word on the circulatory issues)n I never got back into he habit of taking my morning vitamin.

OR. it could be because I am getting older.

Which one would you vote for?