Same. I’m self employed, I can’t afford to be ill. I think I’ve had half a day off in the last 10+ years when I had covid.
My mother is like Mik though, it’s incredibly draining. All the things she claims (diabetes, crohns, arthritis, bad knees/hips/back, depression, bad cough, reoccurring tonsillitis…) are almost all things she’s brought on herself through sedentary lifestyle, diet and smoking. Most of the things, she’s been told she doesn’t actually have and just needs to improve her lifestyle to fix. She’s happier saying the doctors are wrong, etc etc and makes no changes.