Things you absolutely have to do when ill in bed

[ElsaMars]

Yesterday I felt too ill to eat, sleep or watch anything and DH had to help me put my socks on as well as do pretty much everything else with the kids. I tossed and turned in bed all night and finally dozed off about 5.00am.
Today I'm still feeling terrible and in bed BUT I can just about focus on watching something, so I've put on the latest series of the Batchelor for the perfect trashy, I don't have to think about it viewing.
I'm also eating grapes and I managed a cup of tea.
What I also think is when you feel this bad, you still have Mum guilt but I know 100% I couldn't parent today, so I try to let that go - and having a good DH helps (absolute shout out to all the single parents)
What are your 'I'm too ill to get out of bed' essentials?

I read the entire Cazalet saga in bed with covid in September.

Bliss (sort of)

Always one that that cant comprehend or understand things outside of their own limited experience and choose to sneer over it instead and declare their own distaste for it.

A minor virus wasnt mentioned, the OP even explained she could barely move and needed the help but you decided that was cringy.

Still, as long as your sneering responses made you feel better

I also find that as I get older - if I don't listen to my body when it gets ill everything drags on and on. A day in bed (if you have the luxury of being able to do it) can really help

Me too. When I’m that ill I’ll usually have a banging headache and/or nausea as well and even the thought of looking at a screen is off putting.
Audio books I’ve listened to several times before is all I can cope with. My go-to sick in bed books are Ready Player One or Project Hail Mary. They just drift in and out of my ear holes all day requiring almost zero effort to listen to them.

I'm lucky that I've never been so poorly I couldn't get out of bed. I usually try to get washed and dressed, which always makes me feel a bit better, then sit on the sofa watching The West Wing. When I had labyrinthitis I felt better sitting upright- lying down made me puke. We're all different.

How's it cringe. 🙄

My guess you have yet to have the delight of full-on flu. I am fortunate that DH and I it pre-kids but even 15 years on I can still remember it.

I don't find it cringe. I'm just so relieved so far this has never happened. I am a terrible patient though according to dh!

I am a single parent

So… cool, drive children to school, collect from school, do dinner, oversee homework, getting ready for bed, ensuring uniform etc ready for tomorrow.

Basically a normal day

pretty sure you could have put your own sock on Op unless a physical injury or post op 🤔

where’s there is a will, there’s a way (or bugger all alternative !)

Today I'm still feeling terrible and in bed BUT I can just about focus on watching something,

and tapping away on mumsnet

If I was so ill that I couldn't put my own socks on, after taking painkillers, I would seriously think about hospital. My dh would be seriously worried. Unless I had something muscular skeletal going on

@JustAWeirdoWithNoName that's really sweet, I grew up watching the same things 😁

I have a few years on you and I'm the same. Even with (original) covid I got up and did a few things.

You mean actually resting and sleeping isn’t good for you if you’ve got a bad cold/bad virus etc?

Sounds like you’re one of those who insist they go into work whilst sick and infect the entire office!

During my most recent bout of Covid, for two days I was unable to open my eyes for long enough to watch anything, so I listened to Jane Austen adaptations on Audible. I was too exhausted to pay attention to anything new. My husband had to help me to the bathroom because I couldn't trust my knees not to buckle. Sitting up was too much effort. I then had several days of being based on the sofa or in bed and doing very little. I could make it up the stairs but not with a basket of laundry. I could make a cup of tea but not make meals. I could order a shopping delivery but not carry it in.

Once I was well enough to sit up and watch television I would do one quick useful thing then rest and watch an episode of Emma, Mansfield Park, Pride and Prejudice etc, then do another quick useful thing.

I had the most terrible brain fog. I couldn't remember even the most basic words and there were long pauses between phrases.

I've never had flu or Epstein Barr or anything like that so this is the illest I've ever been.

Worst Covid bout of the 4. I even wondered if I had Covid and Flu together it was so much worse than the others.

It's pretty much a given I'll be in bed for at least a day when I'm ill. I don't know why but I really suffer.

I was in bed for 5/6 days before Christmas with flu. When I start to get bored I know I'm on the mend, otherwise I'm too ill to care. That time I read MN mostly when I felt up to it, I couldn't be bothered watching the TV. I'm lucky that I have someone here to attend to the kids if I'm ill.

I'm chuckling to myself now about the posters who would have just forced themselves to drive the kids to school. Not if you had a virus like I've just had or when I had the flu before. For a start it would have been extremely unsafe and probably would have invalidated my insurance - I was so light-headed and "out of it". Secondly I would have had to crawl out of the house and to the car and I do mean that literally. Standing and walking to the loo was the most I could manage. Yet here I am 3 days later feeling so much better this afternoon that I've cleared out fridge, put a load of washing on and cleaned the bathroom. So my illness was "mild" in the clinical sense of not needing hospital treatment, but completely debilitating at the same time. It's clear that some posters have just been fortunate to have dodged these kinds of viruses or their bodies have responded to them less severely- and that's the luck of the draw, not strength of character.

And now I'm back in the sofa and being wound up by posters who lack the imagination or emotional intelligence to understand that their experiences are theirs alone.

No it doesn't, unless you've made that up in your head?

I think everyone on here posts about their own experiences don't they? Sometimes they align and sometimes not 🤷🏼‍♀️

I’ve still to do everything when I’m ill as I’m a single parent to 3dcs. I recently asked my dad to take two of the children to school and nursery (and the pickup) as I was too ill to go out of the house. I had to force myself to do everything else but ordered food in for tea. It was awful and I was in tears at one point.

When I'm feeling miserable Maeve Binchy books are my must haves. I also brought them to the maternity hospital when have the DC. I always find them soothing

Yes, when I was recovering from sepsis (after spending a week in intensive care) I had to spend a few days in bed and my husband had to do lots of things for me.

How cringe. I’m truly embarrassed by myself.

A young person in our family once had Epstein Barr. They were too weak to hold themselves up whilst sat on the bed putting their socks on, so toppled forward and gashed their head on the corner of an IKEA Helmer drawer unit.

Then they were too weak to get up and were found there on the floor hours later.

Sleep

My husband's relation fainted in the playground on the school run and was carted off to hospital and kept there for three weeks to rest, because it was the 1970s and the doctors knew that as soon as she went home there would be no rest for her.