Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. Child-safe in minutes.

Meet the Other Phone.
Child-safe in minutes.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Original poster

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

OP posts:
Thread gallery
6
FreshsatsumaforDd · 08/02/2018 15:34

Re Lurgy, oh dear, I use that word for an unspecified virus not as severe as the flu but with different symptoms to a cold. In fact it was the exact word I used when I spent two days ill in bed over Christmas. I didn't realize that it was considered such a facile and inappropriate word and only suitable for those under 10 to use. I have a university degree but in a science subject, not English. I shall now have to revise my use of "lurgy". Is virus the only appropriate word for a serious illness that is not the flu or a cold?
OP I hope that you are feeling better soon.

Nicknacky · 08/02/2018 15:35

My gp surgery are great at giving out appointments but even then they wouldn't have managed that in less than an hour.

And does a grown adult really need an adult to tell them they need a doc? Surely they judge for themselves that they possibly have the variety of illnesses that the op has?

KayaG · 08/02/2018 15:35

I have oft read of such GPs in myth and fairy tale, pray tell, fair princess whereth doth he reside?

Wolfiefan · 08/02/2018 15:36

Expired?! Grin

WTBE · 08/02/2018 15:40

I think the cold and flu tablets have gone to your head..

SilverySurfer · 08/02/2018 15:41

Strokethefurrywall
This thread delights me and irritates me in equal measures grin

Delights me because there is someone this pathetic out there and irritates me... because there is someone this pathetic out there.

I'm with you - I was toying with the word feeble but pathetic works just as well.

... my gp who diagnosed flu, tonsillitis, a chest infection and on my dm telling him about me going dizzy he checked my ears and I've also got an ear infection.

Oh dear - bet you were tempted to shout bingo! Grin

To all the snotty, sarcastic posters on this thread who felt the the need to tell me to grow up, stop being a wimp and called me pathetic I hope it makes you feel loads better about yourselves.

Yes it does thanks - lots of things I can't do physically but have yet to sit waiting on a worktop for someone to rescue me.

HarrietKettleWasHere · 08/02/2018 15:42

I'd be annoyed to be woken up by a bloody alarm in my ear to remind me to take placebo paracetamol, if I was ill and had managed to get a sleep Confused

OP I hope you have someone to sit by your bed side wringing their hands all night. You may like to pop a winciette nightgown on and channel Beth in Little Women. Bid dear Marmie to help you take a little broth.

JennyOnAPlate · 08/02/2018 15:42

Flu, a chest infection, tonsillitis and an ear infection?

Nicknacky · 08/02/2018 15:43

Actually don't doctors normally check your ears if you are presenting as ill as the op was? Surprised he needed to be prompted to do so.

rjay123 · 08/02/2018 15:47

Omg hun u ok?

Frillyhorseyknickers · 08/02/2018 15:47

Fucking hell OP I’d hate to be such a pansy. If you can’t climb up on a chair without drama your life must be a right giggle. Biscuit

DeniseBest · 08/02/2018 15:47

You need a bit of Juice Plus for that hun.
Tell hubs to leave it where you can reach it though.

SweetMoon · 08/02/2018 15:53

Fucking hell OP I’d hate to be such a pansy. If you can’t climb up on a chair without drama your life must be a right giggle.

Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin

Snacktimonious · 08/02/2018 15:53

Actually don't doctors normally check your ears if you are presenting as ill as the op was

As a matter of course, yes they do.

DobbyTheFreeElf · 08/02/2018 15:56

Has it dawned on anyone else that the Princess OP must have been sat on the countertop for about an hour and a half waiting to be rescued by her Prince DH. Grin Grin Grin

HappenedForAReisling · 08/02/2018 16:00

Has it dawned on anyone else that the Princess OP must have been sat on the countertop for about an hour and a half waiting to be rescued by her Prince DH.

Either kicking her legs against the cupboard doors like a 3 year old or "sobbing" while brushing her flaxen curls,

Strikeout fail for the quote - sorry.

Isthatwhatdemonsdo · 08/02/2018 16:01

Fuck me! I bet you wish you hadn't posted now OP..😁

ProperLavs · 08/02/2018 16:02

op, try harder next time.

NooNooHead · 08/02/2018 16:03

Wish I could get an appointment so easily at my doctor’s surgery. The only time i’ve been seen on the same day this year is a few weeks ago after I had some bleeding at 19 weeks pregnant... even then, I still felt guilty about it as I was going in to see the on-call GP during his lunch hour (although he did say he was quiet, and didn’t mind. He really was very good, and I felt incredibly grateful to him).

The flu is crappy though, you have my sympathies for that. It really does make you feel like death warmed up. I’d love to have my mum look after me when I had it aged 19 on a university art history trip to New York... I spent what should have been a good trip going round art galleries instead being unable to move, lying in a crappy youth hostel bunk bed and being brought flu remedies by my kind fellow students. Having flu at home is one thing - having it thousands of miles from home is rubbish.

Llanali · 08/02/2018 16:05

I genuinely want to know how the diagnosis of flu as well as that lot came about. Surely the some of the symptoms cross over?
Presumably not even your super surgery can do cultures in this time.

Plus, you get that your ears, nose and throat are all connected, yes? So it’s not separate infections- it’s an infection affecting several areas. Unless they swabbed and cultured all the various bits?

DavetheCat2001 · 08/02/2018 16:07

cool story 'bro...

MsWanaBanana · 08/02/2018 16:08

Wow OP, you must be really, really bored with your life to come up with this load of crap! Get a hobby. Or a job. Or both Biscuit

BuggerOffAndGoodDayToYou · 08/02/2018 16:12

I think you forgot pneumonia and lupus from your list OP!

But if you could let me know just where you can get an appointment and diagnosis inside of an hour I would be grateful......

MammaAgata · 08/02/2018 16:16

I'm absolutely amazed a GP can diagnose a chest infection without a chest x-ray. Wow. That GP needs a knighthood/OBE or similar for services to humanity.

voddiekeepsmesane · 08/02/2018 16:16

Wow ...just wow. If you are that ill you have my sympathies BUT grow up. I was unwell last winter with almost the same catalogue of illnesses you have though not all at the same time but one after the other. I was deaf in one ear for 6 weeks and ended up with laryngitis as well. I managed as an adult to get myself to the doctors and take care of myself with a bit of help from DP (who is blind) and 12yoDS. But still had to do most of the household chores etc . It's called being a grown up FFS