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To ring him at work

379 replies

moolady1977 · 08/02/2018 10:24

So I have the dreaded lurgy and my dp has gone to work and put all the meds back on top of the cupboard aibu to ring him at work and ask him to come home and get them down or do I wait till his break at 12 when he said he is nipping home anyway either way im late taking them and can feel my temperature shooting up

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HarrietKettleWasHere · 08/02/2018 18:53

I don't think you can technically diagnose flu without a microscope and a Petri dish.

FlippingFoal · 08/02/2018 18:55

I don't think you can technically diagnose flu without a microscope and a Petri dish.

Viral swabs and the results take 72 hours to come back

LEMtheoriginal · 08/02/2018 18:56

Harriet - neither of those things would provide a diagnosis of flu. You need PCR or an Eliza based assay for that..

Or the £20 out the window test ...conclusive

Snacktimonious · 08/02/2018 18:57

I don't think you can technically diagnose flu without a microscope and a Petri dish

Especially if you have tonsillitis and an ear infection and a chest infection going on at the same time. Those three things on their own would make you feel like crap. Why look for a deeper diagnosis?

MammaAgata · 08/02/2018 20:31

To those who asked including mummyoflittledragon, yes the last two chest infections I had required a chest x ray for full diagnostic results. Steroids and antibiotics and eventually hospital admission on a nebuliser plus vertigo in the interim before the results were confirmed by my GP. However, not clinically diagnosed as a chest infection despite listening to my chest concluded this until the x Ray results. But then again I had spent 2 weeks breathless and unable to breathe normally and carried on with a mad fitness regime at the time with a PT, cycling and running. Perhaps I should have given in and sat on a counter top waiting for my ‘meds’. Grin in fact if I had done what OP had done I wouldn’t now be reliant on inhalers for asthma which is a temporary hangover from said chest infection.

grannytomine · 08/02/2018 20:59

The thing about flu is you can do things if you have to. I've had flu, just wanted to die but I had a baby to look after. It wasn't a day that Mary Poppins would have approved of as an example of childcare but baby was fed and nappies changed, although she did spend the whole day in pyjamas and I spent most of the day lying on the sofa. I was so glad when my husband arrived and I could go and die quietly and alone.

Moltenpink · 08/02/2018 21:15

I was stranded on the kitchen counter for 30 mins last year waiting for DH to get home. There was a fuck off huge spider blocking my exit. He found it most amusing.

gingergenius · 08/02/2018 21:15

@LEMtheoriginal can we give some honorary pants to wear on the outside of some equally honorary 50 deniers. I truly think you should be nominated 'Guardian of Threads'

It should be a titled bestowed with hereditary benefits and you will, by your legacy be eternally required to defend the goady, tje sad, the not quite trolly and all those upon whom mumsnet unfairly unleashes their misguided humour(slash piss-taking).
@LEMtheoriginal

Do you commit to take up the mantle of the oppressed, the misguided and the 'lurgy'-ridden, to protect and defend always????

LunchBoxPolice · 08/02/2018 21:30

Sorry to hear your news op. I do hope that you have your affairs in order.

gingergenius · 08/02/2018 21:41

@LunchBoxPolice you're not suggesting....ltb?? Getting ducks in a row???

Shock
Whatwouldkeithrichardsdo · 08/02/2018 22:00

Hope the meds weren't in a child proof bottle!

LEMtheoriginal · 08/02/2018 22:01

I solemnly declare to defend anyone who isn't being a dick

PerfectlySymmetricalButtocks · 08/02/2018 22:08

I must go back and RTFT. Is it worth it?

LEMtheoriginal · 08/02/2018 22:10

Genuinely, no

shakeyourcaboose · 08/02/2018 22:18

It is a little perfectly but then I've been house bound for a welk so easily entertained..

LunchBoxPolice · 08/02/2018 22:24

gingergenius actually I meant her will. But yeah ltb too

PerfectlySymmetricalButtocks · 08/02/2018 22:25

Gremlins you're obviously dead. Call 111.

PerfectlySymmetricalButtocks · 08/02/2018 22:31

OK, I've caught up.

mummymummums · 08/02/2018 22:33

So DH arrived and laughed? LTB.
OP stranded on work surface. Dear God.
The parents arrived and "took one look" before arranging an emergency Dr appointment. Then OP diagnosed with everything she could think of.
At least she's not a drama queen or fantasist HmmGrin

Ollivander84 · 08/02/2018 23:19

To be fair, I did get an appointment within 30 minutes once and I did have my mum drive me there. She only came in with me because she's a sporner and I had the worst tonsillitis ever she asked the doctor if she could look at my throat Hmm
Couldn't drive myself as I was hallucinating, couldn't swallow my own spit etc

But I managed to do the 6 weeks recovery from major spinal surgery of no bending, lifting anything heavier than a half full kettle and no twisting by myself because there was nobody to help. It was bloody hard but you have to get on with it

Sparklesocks · 08/02/2018 23:51

Oh my god, a grown woman having her parents come look after her because she has the flu! My parents would laugh at me down the phone and tell me to be an adult ...

Royalfuckup · 09/02/2018 00:03

The other thread has been taken down because of reports. 😒
C’on. Own up. Who made those reports.

gingergenius · 09/02/2018 07:12

Seriously though. Why would you sit on a kitchen counter for 90 minutes???

greenjojocat · 09/02/2018 07:34

What horrible bullies you all are

Qcumber · 09/02/2018 08:11

I don't think it's bullying to call someone out on such blatant lies and have a tiny bit of fun at their expense.