Rick's sickness:

In the summer between my freshman & sophomore years of high school, I had a two-week bout with an intestinal virus. I lost about two weeks of my life because I remember nothing. Missed high school football camp because of it and never played tackle football again. That was a good thing.

Dusty's sickness:

I saw Dr. Who, his dogbot K9 and the TARDIS in my bedroom. On the ceiling, more specifically. This was good. The entrance of the Cybermen with their creepy leitmotif gave me the fear. This was bad. I relayed the experience to my parents, who escorted me immediately to the hospital. Pneumonia! Yay! The only memory of the stay is "Hospitals are white and cold." Which was fact-checked ten years later during a ten-day return to the hospital thanks to a post ACL surgery staph infection. Those two are a good one.

Nancy's sickness:

E. coli poisoning. My mother had treated the family to a cruise through the Panama Canal (indeed a supposedly fun thing I'll never do again). We got off in Puerto Caldera, Costa Rica, for an afternoon's escape from our shipboard companions. We ate at a Chinese restaurant and once back on board, I started cramping up. The shipboard doctor could do nothing for me (no antibiotics!) so for several days I was in the worst pain I've ever experienced. I will spare you the details but suffice it to say, I lost upwards of ten pounds.

Brian's sickness:

In high school, I was violently ill and throwing up before a basketball game against our biggest rival. I went out in the first half and put up 18 points; I had to come out of the game twice to go vomit. We ended up winning by 15 points and I was able to sit out most of the second half. It was Jordan vs. the Jazz-esque before the Jordan vs. the Jazz game ever happened.

Matt's sickness:

Right now, as I'm home from work and can't keep any food in my stomach.

Cordelia's sickness:

When I was 6 I had a fever and saw a chainsaw cutting through my walls and then coming up through my floor to get me. I lost sight of it under a pile of clothes and cried hysterically while my sister picked everything up to show me it wasn't there.

Mark's sickness:

Food poisoning from the Koja lunch truck at Penn... I've never ejected assorted stuffs from my body quite so quickly!

Tom K's sickness:

About 15 years ago, I broke out in hives — the first and only time in my life this has happened. Over 4 days, my entire body was progressively covered in silver-dollar-sized welts — I was a walking freak show.

Jamie's sickness:

Vomiting every half hour without failure. I contracted my little sister's stomach virus by eating the jello a babysitter prepared for her.

Adina's sickness:

I got poison ivy the summer after my freshman year of college while "romping" around the backwoods of New Jersey with some British kid I was currently mad for. My mother was putting calamine lotion all over my body, now and then interjecting "How did you get poison ivy there?", when I started gasping for air and then blacked out and banged my head on the bathroom floor. My mother had to roll me into the tub and wash the calamine lotion off my body because I had just had a major allergic reaction to it and almost died. Oh, to be young again.

Rita's sickness:

Having the chicken pox when I was about 8 years old and on a trip with my family in Florida. Every day, my brother was going out to play with the other kids who were in some sort of camp at this hotel, and I was stuck inside, scratching in my pjs.

Sara's sickness:

Whooping cough when I was 18. It's the one time in my life where I actually had a split-second horrible "I'm pretty sure I'm going to die right now" feeling.

Wayne's sickness:

I got food poisoning from a Western-themed Italian restaurant at the Grand Canyon and spent seven hours throwing up, then immediately had to endure a drive to Las Vegas.