to take him to the vet and ask them to put him out of his misery?

[lollipopshoes]

dp has hurt his back.

He is wandering around the house wailing.

He asked me to please make him breakfast then decided he was too ill to eat it. He has gone back to bed with a book.

I don't mind the bad back, I don't particularly mind the wailing. What I really mind is me saying "take some paracetamol then" and him replying "no, it won't work my back's too bad" or me telling him to go to the doctor and him replying "there's nothing they can do to help me"

If he's in pain, there is nothing that wailing can do about it - get some fecking painkillers down your neck!

D'ye think the vet would help?

My MIL gets her medication from her dodgy vet. It's worth a go.

...with a small back-hander maybe.. ? :o

I would share your irritation.

DH has a bad back, he takes daily painkillers in order to manage it.

shall I feed his full English to the dog?

(which I made for him because he asked and I am sympathetic to his bad back!!!)

Call the RSPCA instead. They'll do it with a captive bolt gun, no questions asked, and cheaper too. It'll divert them from doing it to healthy animals.

Seriously... actually, I was being serious, the RSPCA do act like that... tell him that you've got a houseful of kids coming over in an hours time.

He'll either decide he feels mighty better and go out, leaving you in peace, or barricade himself in the bedroom... leaving you in peace. :o

And yes, I'm sure Rover would love a full English (without tomato), and that he's far more deserving. :o

I s'pose I should take it upstairs and feed it to him piece by piece while he malingers rests

Taking painkillers helps a lot because of the muscle relaxant effect. Hot and cold compresses are also brilliant. And personally I find a good osteopath has a value beyond rubies.

Failing which, a gag so you don't have to listen to it.

I have permanent back pain myself and I don't take pain killers every day because I would be popping them all day, but I don't whinge.

If it gets very bad I find ibuprofen more help than paracetomol.

oh god he's just hobbled downstairs to tell me that there are jobs that need doing around the house and he's too ill to do any of them.

grr!!!!

The answer to that one, lollipopshoes, is "well don't do 'em then".

If he's well enough to hobble downstairs he's well enough to feed himself. Although you could take the opportunity to wrap a pill in a piece of bacon. Works a treat with cats.

Ha ha, good to see you still managing to hold on to your sense of humour, think probably best to get out with kids and leave him to his misery, if poss! Telling you the jobs that need doing!! I'd be

at Anniegetyourgun
On a more serious note, ibuprofen is usually better for back pain, doesn't just ease pain but helps to reduce inflammation too

YANBU - then take yourself down to toyboywarehouse (much like the PDSA) and pick a new one.

have forced persuaded him to take ibuprofen and paracetamol. Have forced persuaded him to come for a walk with me.

He says he feels a little bit better

In a bit will force persuade him to have a hot bath

If this doesn't work he's off to the vets this afternoon

That sounds entirely reasonable to me. But have you considered trying to rehome him first? As a responsible pet owner, I think you should try the no-kill options first. [hwink]

My mum has a chronically underactive thyroid and has to take thyroxine tablets. When I was a teenager, one of our cats developed alopecia - all the fur fell out round her tain (and she didn't like going out because she said all the other cats laughed at her bare bum). When we took her to the vet, it turned out she had an underactive thyroid too - and was put on exactly the same tablets as my mum.

The best bit was that if mum hadn't been getting hers as a chronic prescription, it would have been cheaper for her to get her tablets from the vet than from the chemist!

Mind you - we didn't have to hide mum's tablet in a bit of cheese..... [hgrin]

is it wrong to giggle helplessly at HTT's post?

Lol no I did too- when my dp does this I drug him with cocodamol in his tea

I like it when my posts make people giggle helplessly, lollipop - so please carry on! [hsmile]