She currently has a cold. A bad cold, a real stinker. I know this because I had it a couple of weeks ago and passed it on to her. Except that she has taken to the sofa and has "flu", that is fact.
I posted on here when I had a bad turn just after I shook off the cold asking if I was coming down with flu. It was a weird feeling, like nothing I have had before and never having had flu I wondered if that was the start of it. It wasnt and I appreciated the info.
From what I was told, if I had flu I would not have been lying on the sofa, holding a conversation, having a go at someone else for forgetting something and also telling that person to not forget to check the lamb that was cooking for dinner. I was told I wouldnt want dinner. This is what my mother was doing today with her "flu".
She never has a headache, she takes to her bed with migraines. I didnt question this until I got genuine migraines (thought I was having a stroke it was diagnosed as migraine by A&E, it was very frightening). She has headaches, no other symptoms and suggested I was attention seeking when I described my aura, the sickness, the palsy in my left arm etc as she never gets that with her "migraines" just the headache. Oh and you dont get migraines without headaches according to her.
She had a lump in her neck. She spent ages ringing me and my sister telling us the worst, except it turned out that she hadnt even seen the doctor yet, it turned out to be benign.
She is like this about EVERY illness. She has to get it worse than everyone else, always and had no sympathy when anyone is genuinely ill. When I was lying on the sofa with appendicitis that led to emergency surgery at midnight after it perforated (the surgeon described it as "very squiggy" 
) she said "Well the kids wont look after themselves, you will have to just get on with it".
I am sick of it! Today I said "Oh yes, it is a nasty cold isnt it? I felt rotten when I had it" and she said "You had a cold but its turned into flu with me" "No mum, if you had flu then I think you would know about it!" and she got in right huff. I wasnt being accusatory but I was sick of her constantly over egging everything.
AIBU to just ignore her "illnesses" from now on? How do you handle someone who geniunely does get Man Flu?!