Ive cancelled the sleepover, the mum has ignored that and posted all over fb about how shes glad her child is on a sleepover tonight.

[vintagecrap]

AIBU to be cross?

im ill. ive been ill for the last 3 days and have an appt in out of hours in an hour.
Im a lone parent, house is a mess, no food in, cant hardly make it off the sofa.

DD was meant to be having a friend over tonight nad we were looking after her tomorrow. I called the mum and said yesterday that i might have to cancel, and this morning i have cancelled. She hasnt replied to my text at all.

But instead posted on fb about how shes childfree tonight and whats shes doing.

WTF?

hey, get to bed. glad you have meds. i know how difficult it is being ill and alone, and trying to push on.

why she would want her dd around your lurgy anyway i have no idea, she was being pig headed and selfish.

take care

ahh the days of chloroseptic spray... hte magic too painful to breathe, let alone talk throat to being pain free for a few minutes at least.

Hope you feel better soon, OP.

Look after yourself. Lots of fluids. No fizzy, no caffeine, warm but not hot or cold. Avoid the usual strepsils etc with menthol - great for sore throats, crape for laryngitis. Regular paracetamol, regular ibuprofen. Make yourself eat little bits, so your stomach can cope with your meds. Bland soft stuff to start with (at this stage I've been known to live on cream of chicken soup, and porridge with honey and bananas for nearly a week when like this). Keep your mobile charged and with you all the time, in case you get worse, so you can get help. Rest, rest, and rest. Steamy bathroom officially doesn't help... but I found it really helped loosen things up.

Oh, and you probably won't be fit to have her daughter tomorrow. Tbh, I'm more worried that if you don't get rest, you'll be too sick to look after your own DD, which is far more important. Is there anyone at all to help look after you?

As for the idiot who thought you must have some voice - bullocks. The first time I had laryngitis I tried to phone in sick three times but had to give up and go in as they kept putting the phone down on me thinking I was a heavy breather!

Sleep tight op I have every sympathy with you. Just astonished that your "friend" said she could have planned alternative childcare if she'd had more notice! Wow! As if you had prior warning of this yourself! What kind of person puts pressure on someone to look after their child when they have flu?!

Anyway, well done op. Take care, it is very hard being ill and on your own let alone being responsible for children too. Massive hugs to you.

I can't believe the shit you're getting here just for trying to be nice and reasonable.

Get yourself into bed, rest, relax and chill. You need to look after YOU right now.

I think you're just being kind and helpful. It is annoying having your plans cancelled and you have your dd anyway. Maybe having a friend will keep her occupied. Hope you're feeling better soon and ignore the rude posts

That is what happened to me yesterday. I called work to try to pre warn them and they hung up on me twice. The first person just kept saying they couldn't hear it must be a bad line. The second person and my boss couldn't hear me at all. I was actually shouting but nothing was coming out. I had to email in the end.

When I called in the morning as policy stares they knew it was me and just said to make a noise if I wasn't coming in. Which I did and then followed up with an email.

I don't do got drinks or fizzy anyway. Lots of water. I don't care to eat but have got lots of bland stuff. Can't taste anything anyway.

Don't feel too awful when I'm lying down. Hot sweats and the cold shivers have stopped but as soon as I stand my legs turn to jelly.

I can't really do a babysitting circle as I'm not in a position to be able to offer any myself. Plus we are new at the school and I don't know any other mums there.

None to look after me. Bar dd.
But I'm a lone parent, par of the course and have weathered worse.

:)
Dragged myself round sainsburys in a slightly sweaty, delerious state, while I was waiting for my prescription and now have the oddest collection of food to last the next few days.

I'll be fine.

Ah, nice passive agressive note on fb to the people who are having her child about how wonderful they are are and how thankful she is.
She hasn't even confirmed that she doesn't want me to have her dd tomorrow.

Bit shit.
Bit nasty actually.

Oh a PA FB status? Pathetic.

Just rest up, OP and make a mental note not to offer her help again.

Ring back and tell her that you're not going to do it. You're not a babysitting service and if you're that ill that you need to be going to OOHs then she should absolutely suck it up and stay in with her child. You have no obligation to have this child.

Love, Wienerwald you're feeling bitter you might want to take a second look at this Firenze and think about if you have e oggi in Commonwealth valuta Wire to rally make it worth it.

Hope you start feeling much better soon - and well done for getting through today. ((hugs))

It's incredibly nasty and self centred. I'm totally gobsmacked at how self centred some people are. If you were the mum of one of my dc's friends I'd be having your dd for the night. I'm sorry you don't have anyone doing that for you.

OFFS.

I promise that's not the effect of the trippy Nurophen cold and flu I took earlier. Had the wrong language on the keyboard and it has evidently had a precast ice text breakdown as a result.

Trying again.

Love, when you are feeling better you might want to take a second look at this friendship and think about if you have enough in common values wise to really make it worth it.

Just say that your are too poorly! So she's got plans? Well as a parent unfortunately things come up & you can't always control. You've been had!!

Bloody buggering bastard fb.
Get well soon OP

mutters, your incoherent remark was one of the best on here. Possibly ever...

Hope you feel better soon OP, being ill when you're a LP is utterly crap. Can't believe the cheek of this woman, any real friend would take your child and send you home to bed. She was willing to put her own child at risk just for her own convenience. Says it all really.

There you are.