You're fortunate! I have mild asthma that is illness-induced...a simple upper respiratory infection has had me sounding like a TB patient for nearly 3 weeks now. I finally got antibiotics on Friday and am almost entirely better, thank God. My lungs totally go to hell any time I get sick. I go from carrying a rescue inhaler that I don't need to use, to being on 6X daily nebulizer treatments and oral steroids.
I'm prone to developing asymptomatic "walking" pneumonia from such simple upper respiratory bugs and the one time I had the flu I wound up with serious double-lung pneumonia. I've been informed that if I were to catch influenza again I'd be probably need to be hospitalized. Yet when this flu shot shortage was happening I had to wait for the elderly folks to get their shots...I got mine finally in mid-November and hopefully it'll do its job again this year. I don't get the rationale of a perfectly healthy and fit 60 year old having precedence over me, but at least I got the shot in the end.
You got your shot in the end? Gosh, they gave me mine in my arm.
Sorry I couldn't help it. tee hee
Like I said. It effects people in different ways.
BTW. This one came back at me today. I left to go to work and stopped to get a can of soda and it hit me while I was talking to the clerk. I left and headed back home and sat on the pot for 3 hours. Never did revert back to wretching though, thank God for that.