Two years ago, and once two years before that. I don’t get sick much.
Never.
I’m almost 60, and I never get stomach bugs, colds, or flu. Except for seasonal hay fever, which has gotten less severe over time, and brief bouts of vertigo that have popped up three or four times, I honestly have no recollection of being sick more than once or twice in the past 40 years
Until about 4 years ago I lived alone and had worked from home for the previous 13 years, so that might explain it partly. But even when I worked in a building (the most popular museum in the world) that got more than 7 million visitors a year, I never got sick.
And since being married to a high school principal, I still don’t get sick, even when she (occasionally) does.
Just lucky, I guess.
ELAINE: What’s the matter with you?
JERRY: Uh, I don’t feel so good.
ELAINE: What’s wrong?
JERRY: My stomach, I , I think it was that cookie.
ELAINE: The black and white?
JERRY: Yeah.
ELAINE: Not getting along?
JERRY: I think I got David Duke and Farrakhan down there.
ELAINE: Well if we can’t look to the cookie where can we look?
JERRY: I feel like I’m going to throw up.
ELAINE: Hey, what about your vomit streak?
JERRY: I know, I haven’t thrown up since June 29th, 1980.
Anyhoo, I would say I get a short “stomach bug” maybe every several years. No kids, and not around them much at all. I don’t remember being sick for more than a couple of days at a time.
I used to get such an illness 2 or 3 times a year, but after 3 decades practicing medicine I no longer acquire them quite as regularly, perhaps once every 4 or 5 years now (and I am grateful for that!)
Good handwashing helps, but I was pretty compulsive about that in the early days too. I think I just finally developed immunity to most of the common things going around. At least the ones you can become immune to.
There is only one thing that can make me throw up - over imbibing in alcohol. My body has a violent reaction to anything more than a pleasent buzz. OTOH, I had a confirmed case of salmonella a few years ago and never threw up once. The other end was like a firehose, but not even a little nausea up top. I’ve wondered why that is.
In my adult life, I can only remember once, when I ate same bad eggs and got salmonella (no puking, but coming out violently the other end. I’m counting that as a stomach bug. If that doesn’t coubt, I honestly can’t remember. Maybe 4th grade?). I was out for two or three days. But that’s about it. Even drinking to excess rarely causes me to vomit. It’s been at least ten years since over imbibing caused that. Oh, and I had an incident a couple years ago with Trinidad scorpion peppers, but that’s not really a "bug’, per se. More like ODing.
I had really bad food poisoning a few years back (and I was only eating the shrimp to be polite, dammit!). I can’t even remember when my last actual stomach bug was.
Practically never. When I was a kid I’d get the occasional runs; I remember throwing up pretty much exactly once. Since then, there was one stray both-ends bug in my twenties, and nothing since then.
Basically never? I’ve had food poisoning once, and that involved vomiting and all sorts of badness, but I’ve never had a “stomach bug” that I couldn’t associate with a clear cause.
I get them once every few years. I figure if I have to have a seizure disorder, maybe I get a little break on the vomit-related illnesses (that way I can keep my meds down). Of course, now that I’ve typed this, I’m sure I’ll begin to barf in 3, 2,…
I throw up a lot but it’s never really bad. I just wake up, feel something isn’t right, head to the toilet and puke. After that everything is fine.
I also drink out of lakes and streams. I got tired of carrying around an extra 10 lbs. of water while working, so now I just carry an empty bottle and fill it up when I need to. I told myself if I got giardia or something I’d stop but it’s been 10 years now and I haven’t had a problem.
I had some hellacious cases when I was a kid but as an adult I rarely feel more than light headed and queasy for a day or two. This is odd, as I’ve been known to leave hamburger meat on the counter all day and then eat it, so you’d think I’d have a permanent case of e-coli.
That (bolding mine) actually may explain why you don’t get sick often.
Hygiene hypothesis.
With the obvious difference that what you squeeze out of the ends of an eclair is appetizing.
Ick. Now I have a mental image. There isn’t enough brain bleach in the world. :smack:
Anyway, an actual contribution to the thread. I think I’ve had maybe a half-dozen “stomach bug” episodes in my adult life (> 30 years). The nausea always passes as soon as I vomit the one time. Diarrhea will persist for maybe 48 hours. Incapacitation (malaise, fatigue) only about 24 hours.
A military career with lots of chow hall food is apparently a pretty good prophylactic to stomach problems. It didn’t kill my guts, so it must have made my guts stronger. 
I get the stomach flu every couple of years. Never did until I moved in with my now wife. During my single years, living by myself I never ever got sick.
Ordinarily, perhaps a couple of times per decade. But twice in the past month and a half :(.
The first was pretty mild-- I threw up once, didn’t have any lower GI problems at all, and then was fine. Well, fine aside from the heavy cough that showed up at the same time and lasted for three weeks. But digestively fine. The second was… less mild, and lasted for three days.
I used to get them all the time. Then one time I was in the ER with WBC through the roof (second time in 6 months) the doc told me “Next time you even feel queasy, pop some pepto bismol. It’s a toxic sponge.” I don’t think the toxic sponge bit is true, but I’ve followed his Pepto advice ever since and it’s worked out great.
I’d say I’m sorry, but I’m really not. I had a lot of time to think of disgusting metaphors, and that one was my favorite. If it helps, it also refers to the achy pain suffusing my torso–but I can’t imagine how that’d help.
I read somewhere, once, that there is no such thing as “stomach flu”. Influenza is a respiratory disease. Yet, when I was a young child, I stayed home from school on multiple occasions because I had “stomach flu”, complete with vomiting.
I entered the foodservice profession when I was 17, and have remained in that line of work to the present day (I’ll be 49 in a few months). And I recognize now that those childhood illnesses likely weren’t “the flu”, they were “food poisoning”. Because I can look back on my mom’s food handling practices, and recognize them for the “bad practices” they were. Like leaving raw hamburger or raw chicken to thaw on the kitchen counter at room temperature.
As an adult, the last time I was sick enough to stay home from work was when I was 21 years old, way back in 1987. I had a brief job as a shoe salesman, working directly with the public, and I contracted chicken pox. I never caught it as a kid, my bad luck meant I caught it at 21. And I lost a full two weeks of work. I probably caught it from some kid whose shoes I was fitting.
Since then, nothing. I’ve never been sick beyond the common cold. I know how to properly handle food at work, and that crosses over to how I handle food at home.
Food poisoning explains so many of the ailments people have. Also, hangovers. Though I will not call in sick with a hangover. That’s my own damned fault and I will show up for work and suffer through my shift.
I’ve had my vomit streak going since 1996. Before that, it was 1984 and some bad Chinese food.
I hate throwing up. There’ve been a couple of close calls in the meantime, but I’ve managed to wrestle them into submission by sheer willpower (or something).