OK, yes, I must admit I've become lost.
That's ok.
I have more research to do. Don't feel a need to explain it all here.
Stuckin, I've been reading your posts and am thinking about you alot. I truly feel for you. My only advice would be to think with your head, not your heart and to plan, plan, plan. No sudden moves.
Anyway, about sickness, I've done alot of study of illness and the body and how it works.
It seems to me that immunity to contagious illnesses is a combination of:
genetics, diet, exercise, pollution, stress, and of course amount of exposure. But mostly stress. There is a chemical reaction in the body when we are under stress--which we all are at times. (there is good and bad stress, but the effect on the body is the same)
Then there is the bad place/wrong time.
there are some illnesses that are strickly genetic and some you just have a genetic tendency.
Also stress, illness, diet, etc. can effect cognitive ability which can effect our proneness to accidents.
So to me illness is mostly genetics and chance, combined with exposure, lifestyle, experiences, pollution, diet, etc.
"For evil to flourish, it only requires that good men do nothing"--Simon Wiesenthal