Poorly man shuffle

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AIBU to want to throttle the love of my life?
He's been poorly with a D&V bug. I've tended his fevered brow. I've cleaned the toilet - many, many times, I've made nourishing food, I have not complained about the smell or the noises, I've been sympathetic.
I am now fed up.
He is up and about but he is 'shuffling' he makes little noises when he lifts anything (like the kettle), he has a pained expression on his face, his sense of humour disappeared down the toilet with other things, he keeps saying "I'm fine" in a passive aggressive whimper.

I've had no alone time in the bedroom, anything from cutting my toe nails to waxing is a spectator sport to add interest to his day.

I love him. He is ill. I want to put him in a box in the loft for the next 20 years.

dh has chest pain, all weekend, what is the point of chest pain at the weekend when there are no doctors open. Actually he has had chest pain for a week (related to a recent fall) but will he see the doctor? No. I am fast running out of sympathy. I keep saying, Tuesday see the doctor, Is it worse than it was? It is unclear but he is incapable of doing anything apart from complain and watch TV

oh and I have restocked on soup and custard as well as obligatory paracetamol

Mine has perfected the wild eyed teeth baring grimace of pain accompanied by whimpering interspersed with labour-style breathing.

Turns me feral. He had a frozen shoulder once and needed a cortisone injection. Screamed like a toddler, the GP (who was standing behind him) just rolled his eyes.

fair mine "damages" himself too
He is also regularly "in agony" and " carries" illness i.e. " I'm carrying a cold"
Additionally he has an ill breathing technique- its heavy breathing in with a little moan on the end of the out breath
Apparently I'm terrible at dealing with ill people and have an awful bedside manner

zofloraqueen amazing! I would have been similarly unsympathetic.

yankee your DH's lymonella has reminded me of last week when we on holiday! DH watched a news segment on Lyme disease. We then went out, whereupon he promptly got bitten (by a general bug/mozzie/not particularly harmful thing) and spent the whole of the rest of the day checking himself for ticks and refusing to shut up about how he was probably going to get Lyme disease. He was overjoyed. I think he still slightly regrets that he didn't actually get it - it would have been the perfect justification for his hypochondriac ways for ever and ever. Better luck next time, DH.

*We were on holiday, of course

Jesus zaflora hope your husband is ok. That's exactly it though if they are complaining about every niggle how can we possibly differentiate.

So I've got up today with an unexpected af, just a little earlier then normal and mentioned I was feeling a bit crappy. Dh who was up half an hour before me was happily watching GoT and munching on cereal, now this could be a coincidence but within the hour is 'really sinus-y' and his head feels 'cotton-woolly' but it's ok he doesn't need a couple of sudafed. He'll suffer through it!!

I had an ex like this though he would happily take any medication but always need more they were never a high enough dosage to deal with his intense pain/ache but didn't just in case and would always take tablets with such dramatic flair of throwing his head back I worried at the point in time hoped his head would snap off

ds has started to perfect the art of drama when slightly poorly/hurt. he fell over and his arm was all floppy so took him to a&e (he was in pain) but thankfully it was just bruised, a girl around the same age (9) came in at the same time with an ankle injury she was xrayed first and we left at the same time ds with nothing little girl on crutches (poor thing had sprained her ankle) ds was absolutely green with envy and deeply disappointed he wasn't given a sling. The next few days when he remembered he would pick his injured arm up to move it as it was so painful often followed by a sharpe intake in breath and a pained look that any Oscar winner would be proud of

I do recall a few years ago being generally unsympathetic with DHs cold. It went on so long I told him to either go to the doctor or shut up.
It was swine flu.

XH wasn't ill often, so wasn't really sympathetic when I was. But when he brought home norovirus from the OW and spread it round the family, he lay in bed and literally made no effort to reach the loo 3 feet away and expected me to not only clean up the bed, but to wipe his arse for him, too! (vom) I, in the mean time, was dealing with my own bout of virus and also dealing with cleaning the kids up as well.

He was quite manly about taking pain killers, always saying that pain was not that bad. So when he had a vasectomy a week after I had had my thyroid partially removed, I took his painkillers, since we had the same ones and he got twice as many as I had received. I watched blandly as our 1 yr old jumped up and down on his lap, cos if I could deal with her exuberance when just out of hospital, so could he.

I don't miss him at all.

I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST HIM
OMG
life changing thread
Thanks op