It seems we do. We'll have no time for illness so we just keep going: no fever, no runny nose or any other symptoms yet we sense we've "got it coming". Then when we're ready we get walloped. People I know take it for granted that illness can be put off, at a price. How's it possible?
Maybe related: My wife and I have noticed that over eight years of raising a child, not once have both of us been ill. Yet we're most certainly exchanging germs. Before the baby we'd get sick simultaneously with the same thing. Now we take turns.![]()
Also, can people accelerate the progress of an illness?