We're doing our standard rounds round these parts (knock on wood).
- "Seasonal Flu" in the summer (too many friends in the mideast & eastern europe... we catch the flu early)
- Sinus heavy cold this month
After K & 1st, however, everything seems light a "light" year. Ugh. We were sick every single month for at least a week in K, and every other month at least in 1st. We thought we'd get a "pass" on catching schtuff since I was working in a hospital and my H was at the university and Kiddo was in preschool... but nope! Everything that could be caught from school was caught in K... and even though we homeschooled starting in 1st most of the kids in his outside classes were in away-school... and parents send kids to school sick instead of keeping them home. It's just that simple. Doesn't help that for over 50 years our school district didn't have an attendence policy for k-2 (because kids get sick so often), and a very lenient one for 3-6, but the year before we started some idiot decided to make a "max" at 10 days. <rolls eyes> EVERYTHING started going through the elementary schools; strep, staph, flus, stomach flus, pertussis, bronchitis, pneumonia, the list goes on. It was simple enough to get a doctor's note to "appeal" the attendance issue, but that didn't stop the threatening letters from the district. Our K teacher sent home a notice once a month about how to appeal the attendance policy and to beg parents to keep their sick kids home... but by and large... most didn't.