So it turns out there is a summertime version of the Dressing Gown of Doom

[WindsurfingDreams]

I was busy finishing up work and cooking dinner and clearly DH needed to let me know he was desperately ill but he couldn't throw on his dressing gown that he saves for these occasions, so I found him dramatically leaning in the kitchen in just his pants and socks with a thermometer hanging out or his mouth

I love him and he's great and usually looks after me mainly (I have a condition that means I feel dreadful a lot of the time) but I still can't get over the dramatic posturing!

I don't know if it's just because i have got used to feeling ill, or because he feels guilty leaning on me when he knows I am not well, but I still can't quite comprehend being so theatrical about it!

Love the calendar idea!
one month has to be the lying in the foetal position facing the back of the sofa whilst taking up the whole thing in a very obvious manner.

Il never forget my husband stood shivering , thermometer hanging from his mouth after I'd done a full night shift looking after 2 very sick, very tiny 85g puppies. I was knackered as the puppies mum wasn't doing great with such a huge litter (9) and had needed a c section as she was so small. I was really looking forward to a sleep and his dramatics really wound me up the wrong way. I made him a brew , taking my time, and gave him some paracetamol and took the perfectly normal , within range, thermometer out of his mouth and said "Alexa, add a new canine rectal thermometer to my shopping basket".

But apparently that makes ME the uncaring monster. The tin of puppy milk in the same whelping box he found the thermometer in didn't give him pause though. Because he was so very ILL !

Oh my god, you're lucky you have The Dressing Gown of Doom. My husband will never admit to an illness. Ever. That man claims he is never ill. Unfortunately, this was the case when he had a heart attack and continued to play football.
One triple heart bypass later, he was sitting in the garden and told a neighbour he'd had stitches just from a fall on the pitch 🙄

oh goodness that is way worse! How scary!

Also the ostentatious unloading of a huge shopping bag of flu remedies and energy drinks ...

On the plus side when I need some paracetamol/lemsip there's always some lurking in the cupboard

Oh, @WindsurfingDreams , I've had years of this. I found a pool of blood in the kitchen, he said it was a "scratch" from a knife. He was fine. Wanted to watch tv. He fainted. Up to A&,E, needed 20 stitches.
This is my life, folks.
Oh, and he's never ill 🙄

Oh I have a friend with a husband a bit like that @KatyaKabanova he will insist he is fine even if his arm is falling off, it must be so stressful!

Oh it's awful. He'll never take so much as a paracetamol. Sweating buckets, hacking cough, shaking? Nope. "I'll just have a cup of tea and go out and clean the car" 🙄

I coparent with Knobber Ex who sent me an actual photo of his Thermometer of Terror this morning, by way of how he was going to fuck my week up.

Honestly, you'd think divorcing them would rid you of this shit.

💐that is truly beyond the pale

It’s funny, my DH was definitely a dgod if he had a cold, or always if I felt a bit ill, he always was much worse and would race me to the bed!
But when he was really ill, it was always downplayed, eg “I’m in a bit of discomfort “ to the Dr when the man couldn’t stand up straight for pain. If I had the intelligence, I’m sure there’s an interesting medical paper to be written here.🤣

That's just as annoying, isn't it? My DH (when he was still DP) broke his leg playing football. Went to the pub with the team, came home, still hurt in the morning so he called into A+E on the way in to work. They said as he walked in it was almost certainly not broken but they did an x-ray anyway. He had snapped one of the bones all the way through and had to have a metal plate put on.

😧are mine and yours twins?!

Farming stock? Experts in makeshift running repairs of machinery, animals and humans.

Absolutely crap at noticing when they're supposed to seek help (and never trust one who appears at your door with a towel wrapped around their hand that says they just need a bit of a sit down - get your car keys and a bin liner for them to sit on). And if they say they think they might need to see a doctor, call an ambulance stat.

A similar industry!

My DH is like this! He loves a bit of dramatic swooning and a big fuss if he's got a sniffle or a tummy bug, but he comes over weirdly stoical and minimises when there's something seriously wrong.

My husband must be envious of yours as he couldn’t even find the thermometer! He was most put out. Tried to encourage me to find it, problem is Mondays are a busy 10 hour day for me at work so it was literally bottom of my priority list. I suggested looking under the bathroom sink and drinking lots of water. I’m nursing a chest infection and a rheumatoid arthritis flare up so my patience is somewhat worn

Whenever DH is ill for some reason he talks like hes in Bridgerton.
He is fatigued or incapacitated rather than tired or with a sore foot.
He also finds lots of DIY and Garden jobs that he planned to do but now can't.
"I was going to build a 3 bed extension this weekend but can't because of my bad knee"
Does my head in

I'm far much worse than my DH when ill. I have the dressing gown of doom.i shuffle around the house in it, bent over.
I have today found a summer dressing gown of doom and have it on, as I'm ill. I wince at every move as I shuffle. Lots of sighing. Everyone knows I'm ill in the house.

My exDH and BIL are like this. BIL assumed he had done his back in, had to be carried across to the house. Rushed to A&E the following morning cos couldn't walk. He'd had a bloody stroke the day before!

Oh please -- we all know and scientific studies have been done about the effect. Women get pneumonia and are expected to carry on - men get a slight cold and you would think the undertaker was sitting in the driveway.

(A minor one, but a stroke all the same)

Love the pants of pestilence!

I am bemused to learn from this thread that adults still feel the need to take their temperature, surely you know if you have a fever and take paracetamol accordingly?!*

*unless you are my DH and like to be all dramatic about it but refuse to do anything about it, moaning is apparently preferable to feeling like crap.

@WindsurfingDreams usually what makes them improve if telling them they need to have their temperature taken rectally!!!! This gives a more accurate reading!! instant improvement in condition!! dont tell him though, that he had a rectal thermometer in his mouth! that will be instant vomiting!! lol