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...to ask for your Christmas Day horror stories to cheer me up?

115 replies

homeishere · 25/12/2018 11:09

So...currently in bed with explosive diarrhoea after my DH had the same (and sickness) yesterday. He’s looking after the 1 and 3 yr old.

We were hosting Christmas, so have to put off both set of parents and my dsis.

AIBU to ask for you to regale me with your Christmas horror stories to cheer me up?

OP posts:
madcatladyforever · 25/12/2018 17:42

This year, I am home alone drinking slimfast in preparation for gastric surgery early in January. I am so hungry and next door's food smells are drifting through the walls.

JohnMcCainsDeathStare · 25/12/2018 17:53

My DS1 first Christmas. Went into down with DM for last minute odds and ends. Didn't think much about it until the 26th when I really didn't feel right. It was the smell of DMs cooking that made me flee and cue spending all night on the sofa with my 8 week old D+V - Norovirus. Felt well enough 2 days later to go to ILs a day later than planned - then DH falls ill the next day. Seven people get Norovirus, including my 2 year old DN and SIL.

Philomensapie · 25/12/2018 18:42

Aaaand... the first row. DH is cooking in our tiny kitchen. "Can you pass me DS2's juice [which you took off the table] when you've got a minute?"

"JUST FUCKING LEAVE ME ALONE, WILL YOU?!"

Xmas Confused

I get DS2's water from his school bag, DH comes in all knight-in-shining-armour with the juice he no longer needs. Xmas Hmm

toddlepod · 25/12/2018 18:43

Onbail - so sorry about your dog!

Derek - sorry about your mum!

Hugs

MrsPinkCock · 25/12/2018 19:15

DS3 vomiting all morning and the boiler broke this afternoon so we have no heating or hot water Xmas Grin

Had a fabulous day though regardless, lovely lunch and family time. Dog more excited than kids about the presents!

Thinking of everyone in this thread going through recent loss. I lost my DM just before Xmas three years ago, and I know the first Christmas is utter hell.

SteveMcGarrettsBudgieSmugglers · 25/12/2018 19:43

I shit in the hood of the onesie

that really made me snort so funny Grin

Geekster1963 · 25/12/2018 19:48

I had to have a D&C one Christmas Eve after my second miscarriage and I was ill so had to stay in hospital overnight for IV antibiotics.

Katkincake · 25/12/2018 19:50

Been a good day & all went to plan but.... I lost my nan yesterday and Xmas eve last year we lost my father in law, so Christmas has sadly become a time of sorrow for us now. Thank goodness for our DSs excitement which makes the day. Also had an upset stomach all day which has curtailed the usually scoffing and drinking!

Flowers for you Derek.

WhenLifeGivesYouLemonsx · 25/12/2018 19:51

One of my family members slapped another family member off the toilet due to something "terrible" he did. She just kicked the door open while he was having a shit, and slapped him and he ended up falling off Grin

FourFuxxakes · 25/12/2018 19:57

Several years ago there was the biggest family argument ever at Christmas Day. My mum ended up pissed. Dinner was very, very late. The food was overcooked, dry and burnt. We didn't eat it which made mum even more angry.

After that, we didn't spend Xmas day together again until 3 years ago when my step-dad died a couple of weeks before the big day.

We stay home and have dinner by ourselves as a family of 4 now and is generally quiet and lovely (apart from a few strops just before dinner this aft).

pinkiepie1 · 25/12/2018 20:21

I was pregnant with my 2nd dd come down with noro. I was the only one who had it so by Xmas eve felt a lot better went and saw my parents, dsis, bil and dn
Xmas day saw mil and sil.
Xmas day night dd and dh come down with it.
Boxing day. Mum, dad, bil come down with it.
Then my niece and sis, my niece spent her 3rd birthday being really sick.
Then mil and sil got it. Sil was a bridesmade and had to leave the wedding after the church cos she got it so bad.

I have never been forgiven!!!

twinkletwinkleyshittystar · 25/12/2018 20:24

I was at my then new bf for our first Christmas with his family.
My parents phoned me in the middle of the dinner to tell me my beloved guinea pig had died. I couldn’t stop crying the whole way through. I know some people say it’s only a Guinean pig but it wasn’t expected and I loved the little thing.

twinkletwinkleyshittystar · 25/12/2018 20:25

Oh and @Derekmorganwasinmybed sorry Flowers

WhoGivesADamnForAFlakeyBandit · 25/12/2018 20:33

The year I was 39 weeks pregnant and stupidly agreed to go to my parents for "a break" (news: it was not a break for me) I had SPD and could barely walk, but spent the night on the bathroom floor covered in a towel chucking my guts up with food poisoning from my parents lax hygiene. DH and DD weren't ill so it wasn't a virus. I was totally wiped out for days and luckily went overdue because I could not have laboured in that state.

mortifiedmama · 25/12/2018 20:37

12 hour nursing shift should have ended 35 minutes ago. Exceptrelief hasn't arrived and has now turned off his phone. Management aren't answering. Not me, but someone we are spending Christmas with. She agreed to work the Xmas day shift so colleague could spend it with his kids, knowing that she'd then not be able to see her own (not children) family until later in the week. Bastard hasn't kept his end of the deal.

onefootinthegrave · 25/12/2018 20:42

Almost I'm sorry to read that. I hope one year Christmas is less sad Flowers

CuppaSarahsCuppaChristmasCheer · 25/12/2018 20:49

3 years ago at 39 weeks pregnant I woke up at 2am Christmas Eve with the worst headache imaginable.

A cute Preeclampsia and HELLP syndrome. Gave birth Christmas Eve after a dramatic induction and spent Christmas day hooked up to various drips, lots of obvs and no food, feeling like death warmed up, trying to establish breastfeeding and leepy my blood pressure down.

Poor DD was only 2 and was a bit traumatized by seeing me so unwell when she visited. But dad did bring some gifts in for her to open with me. Best and worst Christmas rolled into one. Could have done without the grump Midwife who made me feel shit for being upset at missing DD.

DeathByMascara · 25/12/2018 21:12

My beloved Dad died on 20th last year. So last Christmas we spent at home with me, dh & kids, totally shell shocked. I'm currently signed off work as I've had a breakdown trying to deal with that & cope with everything else. So god love my husband, I've got up, gone back to bed, made & ate dinner, gone back to bed; got up again. My family interactions have been limited as I just can't handle them at all.

Mental illness really fucking sucks.

Mynotsoperfectlittlefamily · 25/12/2018 21:26

Last year... husband had pneumonia and suspected lung cancer. 18 month old had scarlet fever and i had the flu. Was awful. Hope you feel better soon x

PoutySprout · 25/12/2018 21:35

My grandfather died on Boxing Day 1995. Xmas day was the last time I saw him. He’d had a stroke and was so frustrated at being unable to speak/be understood. Sad

My grandmother (his wife) died early this year. The last time I saw her was Christmas Eve 2017.

I want to remember them both, but it hurts. I miss her so much. Sad

Ribbonsonabox · 25/12/2018 21:47

I had a really tragic (pretty much self inflicted so not true tragedy) christmas day about ten years ago. I was in the depths of amphetamine addiction and barely holding it together.. I had a job in a seedy bar and I had gone out after work about 1am dressed as a slutty reindeer and ended up absolutely off my face in a random persons council flat. I was in a relationship with an abusive alcoholic dickhead at the time whom I was living with in a bedsit... at some point on Christmas day I stumbled back there from the random persons flat to find him passed out drunk in bed. The only food in the place was super noodles. So I just sat at the foot of the bed eating these noodles in a mug. We didnt have a TV. That was my Christmas. On some level it was even quite funny.... I remember thinking that it was shit to the point of being humorous.

MagnusMama · 25/12/2018 21:59

My ds lost a tooth today to a Waitrose chocolate eclair! Shock

Took a few minutes of speechless horror to realise it was actually a baby tooth, despite being a molar.
He says he'll never eat another toffee again, so not all bad Wink

Derek I'm sorry for your loss Thanks

ShatnersWig · 25/12/2018 22:05

When I was 18 one of my closest friends died on Xmas Eve. She had gone in a week earlier for a serious operation and had internal bleeding during surgery. She went into a coma. I'm 44 now and still find Christmas difficult.

ToffeePennie · 25/12/2018 22:12

2013 - I have HG to the point where I am hospitalised the week before Xmas, allowed out on Xmas eve, only to throw up through Xmas dinner....
2014 - our cooker broke, in-laws came to our rescue with a spare combi oven. I had glandular fever and tonsillitis so I couldn’t speak much less eat Christmas dinner
2015 - I had real honest to goodness flu and thought I was dying. My hubby went to my mums for Christmas dinner with our son and left me at homes
2016 - I had tonsillitis and an absess so I could only have soup.
2017 - I get out of hospital with my baby on Christmas Eve (he had bronchiolitis and sepsis) and have such a severe ear infection I couldn’t hear for 6 months after. It took 2 lots of antibiotics before I felt right again.
2018 - I’ve over prepared and cooked about 20 times the amount of food. Touch wood no sickness - yet!

ChesterGreySideboard · 25/12/2018 22:48

So sorry to all who have lost someone at this time of year.

Christmas at MIL a few years ago. DH is from a big family, I have a very small family and find big family dynamics very hard to cope with.
In the run up to Christmas I had indigestion.
Christmas morning, dreadful dose of the shits.
Worst thing was that there was only one toilet and no lock on the door. The entire extended family there for Christmas dinner. Fortunately no one walked in or caught it.

I spent the day in bed watching Downton on my phone. (It was actually a win in my book).
Then when the entire family decamped to another family members house I stayed in bed.

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