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!

Oh my husband has his summer dressing gown of doom, one of those thin white cotton ones that he nicked from a hospital.

Oooh maybe I should treat my husband to one so he can continue to relish being dramatically ill even in a heatwave

If my DP needs me to know how much he is suffering it’s by volume. He heaves, sighs and gasps on movement as if there’s no oxygen available. I bought him an oxygen finger monitor to reassure him that he wasn’t short of oxygen. It hasn’t stopped the noise, but at least I know I can ignore him safely.🤣

@Hoppinggreen that made me 😂
DH will do a little pathetic cough which means I need a drink bringing. We make a joke of it, I do my best impression of him back, then I say I might get him a cup of juice because I'm nice. We do this every time he's ill. It's like a weird ritual.

I'm a complete pain in the arse when it comes to illness. I've literally nearly died because I have tried to carry on with severe pain.

This has really made me smile! 😀

I have a daughter (12) who is perfecting the bridgerton speak and DGOD approach to minor illness. She will let me know that she's examined her tonsils and they do not appear inflamed, however feels a general weakness......then appears the fluffy jacket monstrosity with an expectation of parental fawning......the illness inevitably clears up quite quickly. The poor kid loves a good minor medical drama but has always been too healthy to actually get one, luckily.

When it's especially hot he'll put ice packs in the pockets of it and walk around giving me sad eyes while wearing the below. Please tell me how to take it seriously because I can't.

Indeed!

And this is the time to recount the tale of the mumsnetter whose husband claimed that he 'was drifting in and out of consciousness' while he was dozing on the settee.

If you didn't laugh you'd cry!

My dad had bloods done as he "felt a bit tired"
Ambulance and doctor turn up at his work
Dad "can I not just wait for this member of staff to come in, I'm busy..."
I think they forcibly shoved him in the ambulance then he spent a week in hospital having two blood transfusions as he was so badly anaemic

@NeverDropYourMooncup got a call once for a farmer with a badly cut finger
Next thing all hell breaks loose, air ambulance, trauma, rapid response, everything
He forgot to mention he got gored by a bull and had a sucking chest wound

How does the DGOD differ from any other dressing gown?

You will recognise it from its proximity to the sofa, the sad face protruding from it (bonus points if it has a hood) and the sighing from its general direction.

@MoonWoman69 This is because you didn't respond to the first sneeze (whenever it was). You were given advance warning of the newest one so you could respond more appropriately.

My 16 year old has the ominous oodie of odiferousness. The 12 year old has a collection of dressing gowns and hooded blankets that are deployed in order of seriousness. If they’re both unwell at the same time they flap about the house like a very small colony of fleecy bats, hanging about being pathetic.

When they’re properly ill you don’t see them, as they’re programmed to sleep it off, like their older sister; they just retreat to their pits and emerge only for water, toast, and the bathroom. Much more sensible.

I remember when my daughter was in year r and off sick she spent about an hour planning an outfit to pick up her older brother from school, she knew she wanted to simultaneously look sickly enough to garner sympathy yet also glamorous enough to still be admired. I think she settled on an Olaf onesie and plastic necklaces. I remember thinking that she was probably well enough to go back to school if she could put that much thought into it

Mine doesn't like me swearing either

I’ll never forget how my DPs eyes lit up when he discovered I’d got a “proper hospital thermometer”

He wears the floppy shorts of suffering and the manky old footy shirt of feebleness if he’s ill in the summer. He rang me from work to ask if I thought he sounded “full of a cold”. When I suggested the pollen count was very high and it was probably just that, he was really disappointed!

And the increased whiffyness as the days go by! Brought about by spilt food and drink (too ill to sit upright)… and other general man smells…
I always give DPs DGOD a bloody good wash once he announces he’s well again😆

It’s reasonably funny when they’re that small.

My 12 year old would have approved of the onesie, they’re always a solid choice in his eyes. He had a rough day at school yesterday, and spent an hour sequestered in his sister’s room in his green dino onesie. 🙄

may not have been washed (or no put in the wash after the last bout of plague). A hood is good as the wearer can look out from it. Think those creatures in Star Wars that collect the scrap

https://www.starwars.com/databank/jawa

A friend of ours sent us a picture of his thermometer of terror to show us how ill he was. His temperature was 37.3 🤣

Is my DP living a double.life with you? That's exactly how his looks. I call it the sand person look.