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[quote=Anonymous]Yes, we were sick.

My Boomer parents had everything except polio. Every area had a school for the deaf full of kids that lost hearing at birth or as babies due to measles or Rubella. Sickly or disabled kids were shunted off into special schools or institutions or kept at home.

As a Millennial, I had 1-2 severe flus, the occasional norovirus, mono that lasted months, pneumonia, and recurrent strep. And I was considered “healthy” because the seasonal colds didn’t give me fevers and I could power through.

I had a SAHM so my mom wasn’t necessarily monitoring us for fevers every day like if we were going to daycare. If we seemed ok enough it was good enough. But both of my siblings had more serious issues - one had asthma (probably from an RSV infection as a baby), and the other was just constitutionally sickly and still is, likely due to a rare genetic disorder closely related to CF. At various times we probably all would have died if not for modern medicine.

My kids have had their share of mystery fevers but on the whole are healthy children. I might not even know every time they were “sick” if I didn’t have Internet and shame enough to check their temps when they seem off.

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