Being Sick Research Paper

1. All About You - How healthy are you? How many times a year are you sick? What kind of sicknesses do you get? What time of year do you get sick and under what circumstances? Have you ever had serious illnesses or accidents? If so, what and when? What are your health habits (sleep patterns, nutrition, stress etc.)? Whether you get sick or not, are you often tired or not able to be alert enough to do your best work? How do you deal with this situation, if it exists?

I ran cross country and track throughout high school and middle school, and even coming to college I’ve ran about 300-500 miles a year so I consider myself to be pretty healthy. However, I do get sick quite often. At a minimum I’m sick about once a year, and even though I get the flu shot every year, just like clockwork, every year I get the flu. To my memory, my history of being sick every year started in 10th grade. Before that, I rarely ever got ill. In 10th grade, I got bronchitis but I ran with it all cross country season and it turned to pneumonia. After that, my lungs were never quite the same.

I feel like I’m a little bit OCD in my health habits. I have to sleep and wake up at the same time every day. So whether or not I have class or not, I always wake up at 6am. Because

The right side of her face is freezing up - almost like a stroke victims - so she’s been going to see a neurologist. She’s had a history of migraines and headache problems so that’s quite worrying. She also has high cholesterol and I feel that she is overweight. Her mother died very early - in her 30s - and her father died from cancer. I also wish that my mother would start exercising, but she was in a severe car accident last year which sprained her ankle very badly so she finds it hard to walk for long distances or put weight on it for too long. After the accident, she has also started to faint whenever she gets too angry. My mother has 12 sisters and 1 brother who are all in good