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Puking in the bath...

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malakadoush · 30/12/2011 11:04

My DH was ill last night - he had a bug - and instead of being sick in the loo he did it in the bath. This is the second time he's done it - he says chucking up in the loo is disgusting Hmm

I was so annoyed about him doing it in the bath I found it hard to be sympathetic. Spent half a hour bleaching and 'dettleing' the bathroom at midnight.

AIBU??

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FourArms · 30/12/2011 17:29

I had a nasty bug a couple of nights ago and had it coming out of both ends. Still managed to be sick in a bowl! It was all DH could do to get me a new loo roll when the first one ran out. He'd never have been able to clear up too!

alistron1 · 30/12/2011 17:37

DP is pretty good - we'd only been seeing each other for a shortish while when I had to have my appendix out. After I got home from hospital he was roped in to look after me 'cos my parents had to go back to work. I then had the mother of all periods (sorry for the TMI!!) he changed sanitary towels for me and everything. I knew he was a keeper at that point Grin

Rikalaily · 30/12/2011 19:34

Your DH should have cleaned it up himself, there is no way I'd ever expect someone else to clean up my vomit, even when I've thrown up in hospital I've cleaned any mess up myself even when nurses have insisted on doing it.

I can't throw up in a toilet, if I do I just can't stop wretching and being sick and it carries on even after everything is up. I throw up in a bowl or the bathroom sink then bleach it to death straight away.

I hate my head being close to a toilet, when I clean to loo I use gloves, a long brush, tie my hair back and hold my breath and get it done very quickly. Just breathing with my head within a foot of a loo makes me start wretching :(

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malakadoush · 04/02/2012 17:30

So...very late reply as I've not been on Mumsnet that much since Christmas.

Firstly, DH did clean up after himself, but his clean up and my clean up are entirely different things. I am very germ phobic and so had to disinfect, bleach, dettol spray everywhere or I wouldn't have been able to use the bathroom in the night if I had needed to (or sleep very well knowing it hadn't been 'degermed'!). If he had just been sick in the loo, it would have been much easier and I wouldn't have been nearly as freaked out by the germs.

BUT - had he been too ill to clean up after himself, I would have cleaned up for him - just as he would for me. And that is because we're a partnership and I love him and he loves me. I wouldn't have relished doing the full clean up but would have done it and not been angry with him.

My only gripe is that he insists on puking in the bath which I find revolting and unacceptable - and that is what I was testing here, whether or not I was being unreasonable to have such strong feelings about it.

ConnorCamden - I'm picking on you because you're easy to pick out at the start of the thread...but weak why am I weak? What an amazing conclusion to jump to!!

Silentboob, CailinDana as well - I think you must be in weird relationships if you would refuse to help your partner if he were ill. Although silent thanks for the bowl tip, I now have a nice shiny new bowl behind the loo and designated as DH's sick bowl!!

But, as I am about as far as you can get from a weak woman, I can't get upset by the comments - but I have been a bit Shock by the lack of care and compassion some of you have. I don't equate compassion, care and loving somebody with weakness...nor do most of the people I know.

But thanks for those who have confirmed that puking in the bath is indeed revolting! Grin

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troisgarcons · 04/02/2012 17:33

Urrrgh - I dont puke in the loo either - fuck knows what would splash back.

Fraktal · 04/02/2012 18:10

We have a purple puke pot (and a blue baby bucket and a red rag receptacle, I like alliteration) because the idea if puking in the loo makes me cringe. I have thrown up in the sink before but the bath?! No.

mummytowillow · 04/02/2012 18:30

I had a terrible bug once, I was so ill! I had the worst skoots ever and had to be sick in the bath! As the other end wouldn't stop!

Still cleaned up after myself though! Wink

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malakadoush · 05/02/2012 22:05

trois you're supposed to flush before you puke so there isn't anything to splash...lol!

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troisgarcons · 05/02/2012 22:10

Bleach etc ... ruin your clothes

blackeyedsusan · 05/02/2012 22:59

we have a bucket and a bowl. they are on standby at the moment.

skybluepearl · 05/02/2012 23:54

I think you are daft for cleaning up sick in the bath - think of all the lumps and bathing afterwards. throwing up in the loo is better and a bowl is even better still.

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