He is ill.....

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AND I CAN'T STAND IT MUCH LONGER.
He is walking around the house sighing every ten seconds, looking like he can barely drag his limbs along, not to mention the pathetic coughing whenever the poor dear can manage it.

He has not shut up about how breathless he is, mournfully reporting that he had to rest at the top of the stairs after walking up them.

I think it's the sighing and muttered "Oh God," that's getting to me. Fine, you're ill, off you pop to bed - STOP DRAPING YOUR ILLNESS AROUND THE HOUSE.

It's been three days now. Three days of asking me to check whether he feels hot, making pointed remarks about "how hot it is" in the house " knowing meanwhile that it's perfectly fine. This is designed to make sure that I know he must have a fever.

Any tips on how not to kill him?

Bless. Anyway, if he keeps going on about how hot it is in the house to make you think he has a fever... when you actually have a fever, you feel cold and shivery, not hot.

Poor wee lamb. If you haven't been peeling his grapes for him, shame on you!
😂

I'd like to have sympathy for you OP but I totally milk it when I am ill

Has he done "the shuffle of sorrow" yet? Saw that phrase on a similar thread and thought it was hilarious.

Oh poor you, we had this in November😢
The dressing gown of doom was put on, the weak voice was used, and phone calls (aka ‘the last farewell’) were made to his parents explaining why he couldn’t visit at the weekend…

But he wouldn’t bloody go to bed😡😡
instead he lounged all over the sofa watching shite tv and annoying the dog (and me) constantly requesting drinks, the cushions plumping and the fleeces wrapping round him. The heating had to be full blast or it was ‘freezing’ in the room.

How I never put him out of his misery, I’ll never know!

When I am I’ll, I go to bed, I can rest/sleep and the rest of the house can carry on.
Its as if he’s frightened we’ll forget how stricken he is, if he’s not on the sofa saying he could “probably manage” a small Dominoes pizza…..

I saw this, too. Inspired 😂😂

Mines rarely ill but when he is he uses the blanket of bleakness while laying on the settee

How about the duvet of dying?

And the best bit? He's a bloody DOCTOR

Killed me

Ooh so many great descriptors.

Mine does the slipper-shuffle of decrepidation.

DH has a dressing gown of doom and does the sick man shuffle. It doesn’t matter what illness he gets it affects his ability to talk and walk. It drives me mad.

I’ve had a virus for 2 weeks now. I’m convinced he’s sad that he’s not caught it. He keeps forcing a cough and talking with a funny voice in the morning, then he’s right as rain ten minutes later.

I’ve got 2 adult sons, neither of them behave like it.

Yes that was going to be the critical point in my threshold of assessment @BIWI

Although the dressing gown is not always a factor these days as not every home has them. So I don’t know. Hmmm

😂😂 at ‘blanket of bleakness’ and ‘sick man shuffle’

Sorry you feel infuriated when your OH is ill.
Married for 20 years, child free if relevant, husband three decades older than me,
but when he sports the "man flu", anger is the last feeling I experience. 😳

We have a toddler.

He's now gone to bed having issued instructions about when I should call an ambulance for him because of his breathing. I kid you not. One of which was if I found him unconscious on the floor. As opposed to the bed??

For those who do nothing but sympathise with their husbands/partners when ill are better people than I!

Makes me glad I'm single 😄

Has anyone else encountered the Duck Face of Despair? It's to indicate a sore throat -- the lips are clamped together in a semi pout, a hard swallow is taken and the eyes close with the sheer awfulness of it all.

Has anyone else encountered the Duck Face of Despair?
No - I once saw a video of a frog swallowing a tough beetle and thats the mental image I get.

He's a doctor 😂 this made me laugh and him telling you wants need to happens if you find him on the floor 😂You can get through this OP, surely he will make a miraculous recovery by the weekend

Omg 🤣

God, my heart sinks when DH declares he’s coming down with something and asks me to get him some bloody Lucozade 😂

Last weekend. Walking dog with Ds. 'Felt His back go'. 'Called an Ambulance but couldn't wait so got the bus to A&E'. When I arrived at hospital to collect Ds He was in cafe chatting to randoms. I offered a lift home but 'he was too sore'.. Then he RAN for the bus !!!
Beat bit: he's my bloody Ex.

TheBlueAndAmber

" probably manage” a small Dominoes pizza…..

😂😂😂

Poor poor poorly Dh has a bad cold AND a bad back today and omg the PERFORMANCE! We've had the full range of moans, groans, whimpers (do you think I feel hot? Do you think I have a fever? Is it cold or is it me? ) , mopping of fevered brow, performative loud sneezing, rolling on the floor, dramatic clutching of furniture and dragging himself around the room, (funnily enough only when I'm in the vicinity to witness.) When I went out today he was suddenly able to cook himself a meal from scratch and wash up the pans - quite miraculous improvement!
I'm not sympathetic enough apparently (because I asked if he needed an ambulance after some particularly dramatic shrieks getting dressed). So rather than accept my many offers to help dh has preferred to martyr himself and drag himself up and down the stairs clutching the bannister with both hands to get what he wants.
Love him but think I might suddenly need to go in to my office rather than work from home for the rest of the week.

Buy a thermometer so he can check his temp himself.
Give him a bottle of Paracetamol and or cold medicine, and bring in a tray with tea, water, chicken soup and toast.