OT--All This Talk Of Getting Sick

[Sixgun]

Fellow Shootists,
I have noticed in various posts that "this guy or that guy" has a cold, flu, or some other common winter sickness. Not to brag, but I seldom, if ever get sick in any way. Neither do other people in my household. I married a farmer's daughter (no jokes please ) and there were 8 in her family and they never got sick. Relatives of my wife's are either farmers or horse breeders and they all live well into their eighties and beyond.

How often to you hear of a farmer getting sick? I have spent a good bit of time around the Amish and they too, get sick very little.

We have 15 dogs, 3 horses, 5 (or more)cats. 4 dogs sleep in my bed with me (little Yorkshire terriers ) My in-laws had a dairy farm up until several years ago with 30-50 cows, but continue to have lots of dogs and horses.

Its the animals They build up your immune system from all the stuff they drag in. Now, Go tell your better half, your gettin' a dog or cat. (well, easy on the cat thing--let it be a dog! -------------Sixgun

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[mescalero1]

Sixgun,
You think it might be that we feel a responsibility to our 4 legged friends?

[Sixgun]

Sixgun,
You think it might be that we feel a responsibility to our 4 legged friends?

Mescalero,
Your putting it very mildly. I owe my life and my mental stability to them. ----------Sixgun

[mescalero1]

Snazzy is more like my kid than my dog.

[2ndovc]

I can't imagine life without a dog. Or two or three!


Lucy my Great Dane and Abbey My Boxer mix.

Tasha, my lab doing what she does best!


jb

[mescalero1]

Good to see I am not the only one who is blessed by good companions.

[Old Savage]

Grew up on a farm, friends had farms - we drank out of the creek with horses half a mile up stream. Went one six year period without missing a day of school. Maybe folks don't get enough immunities any more. Been to a medical doctor less than a dozen times in 61 years and some of those were physicals. Had antibiotics once in my life with an infection near a pin in my elbow after a trauma to it that got infected. Family doctor as a kid was a chiropractor and my wife is a chiropractor. Healthy almost all of the time.

[AJMD429]

Partly I think it is that people go to the doctor for every little thing nowdays, which affects the 'stats.'

Also I agree that living too clean (and too 'chemical') likely hurts, more than helps, the immune system.

Still there IS stuff we can do and should do medically that people who "never go to the doctor" can miss out on. (Cancer screenings, cholesterol issues, etc.)

Sad part is that the frivolous stuff people flock in for (antibiotics for 'colds') is cheap (covered by insurance), so they overuse it, and the more important stuff when they really ARE sick is overpriced, which discourages the proper care. Score one (more) for socialism.

[Ysabel Kid]

Sixgun -

Problem is that between having young kids - who drag home every bug known to mankind from school - and spending half my working life in those germ-tubes some call airplanes, I can't win for trying.

That and not having a spleen plus some nicely-damaged internal organs after a car accident when I was 19...

We do have a dog and cat though - and I have noticed I have a lot fewer sinus infections now since the cat arrived! Go figure!!!