To be really irritated avereytime my mother has a cold?

[IntergalacticWalrus]

AARGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

She;s rang me twice this morning and has basically groaned down the phone.

She put on a really irritating voice. The sort of voice you use when you pull a sickie from work.

She keeps saing "I feel ever so rough" in said irrating voice

I know I'm really unsmpathetic, but6 she has always been the smae.

I just know she will turn up here tomorrow and ona and shed snotty tissues all over m,y furniture.

Please tell me I'm being unfair and unreasonalble

[Flower3554]

I've had a really bad cough cold and sore throat for a couple of weeks now, I asked DH if I sounded husky and sexy on the phone, he replied "well you sound husky"

[IntergalacticWalrus]

She is the worst person for being ill

She always has one ailment or another

However, when the tables are turned she is the most unsymathetic person you can imagine (and she's a nurse!!)

She created a mums epidemic in my school when I was a child because she told me I hadn't got mumps, I was being silly, and that if I sat down quietly they it would go away

If I hadn't had a neck the size of Bulgaria when I went to the docs and he confirmed the diagnisis, I would have laughed in nher face, but I was finding breathing and speaking especially tricky at the time, IIRC

[IntergalacticWalrus]

She created a mums epidemic

Should be mumps

(Is a mums epidemic like a baby boom I wonder?)

[Dropdeadfred]

I'd tell her if she was that ill to stay away from your dc's until she's all clear of germs. Bet that speeds up her recovery!!

[IntergalacticWalrus]

She pulls an "ill face" as well.

It's all very irritating.

[yeahinaminute]

My mum's the same walrus - she has a regular "funny" tummy - somehow this alleged "funny" tummy causes her to speak like she's in the last stages of emphysemia - which to be fair she probably is the amount of Bennie Hedges she pulls on each day !!!

[IntergalacticWalrus]

Oh yes, the funny tummy.

I have that from my mother.

"I have a bit of a funny tummy"

Said in annoying ill voice accomapnied by ill face (ill face-thing hang dog, with mouth slightly open and glazed eyes, meets rudolph-from too much unneccesary nose wiping)

Now, I do love my mum to buits, but she gets right on my norks.

[yeahinaminute]

Mums Tummy flares up when there may be some danger of her actually having to do something like cook for instance !!

[IntergalacticWalrus]

My mums comes into play when nobody is paying her any attention

[maisemor]

My granny is the same. She has been on her death bed (according to herself) for the last 25 years now.

Apparently it is no fun to grow old at the age of 60, 70, or 80 wow not 25 years then but 30plus now. She is now 86 that's a long time to have been on a death bed.

[yeahinaminute]

Oh I know - my mum is constantly telling me she hasn't got many years left !!!!

[goingfor3]

Every time I'm ill my mum apperently has the same but worse, drives me mad!!!!!

[Dropdeadfred]

so would you tell her to stay away til the germs clear up?

[muppetgirl]

My grandmother used to talk in 'operation code'

'....it's been 1 year and 3 months since my operation and the doctor is pleased with my progress still'

my dad has now started doing it too.

[IntergalacticWalrus]

I probably woyuld tell hetr to stay away, but she will just turn up with her box of mansize.

[pagwatch]

God I seem to be joining all the mum threads - I have issues....
my mum has suddenly started discussing her ailments every time I phone. I have not had a converstaion with her in the last year without her discussing why she had a bad day yesterday because of sore knee/ cold/undiagnosed illness/just feeling off/sore throat etc etc.
She always does the brave little soldier voice too! I have started saying "gosh you sound poorly. Don't let me keep you - you take yourself off for a rest and I 'll phone in a day or two and see how you are". Wonder if it will work?

[IntergalacticWalrus]

UPDATE:

She's just rang to say she's going to Tesco, which is her "first outing all week"

She's still doing The Voice

She was trying to sound all brave for going to the big shop all by her own.

She's also feeling strong enough to go out for dinner later

[Dinosaur]

I find mine really annoying about illness .

She goes on and on about "how the whole country" has it and "where has it come from".

And because she doesn't get out much, she has no immunity to common coldy things so always catches something from the DSs and then I never hear the end of it.

Aaarrrghh!

[pagwatch]

IW
you should get her some of those stickers you get from the Doctor " I was brave today!". She is just a little soldier isn't she. Are you sure we are not related - sis , is that you?

[WanderingTrolley]

lol at funny tummy - does it tell jokes?

IGW when you see her, will you get more satisfaction by

a) going stone faced and horror struck at the door, and saying in a tight voice, "You look terrible mum - I really think you should go home straight away and go to bed - you'd feel dreadful if my dc caught it."

or

b) "Ooh mum! you look in the pink - that trip to Tesco really did the trick!"

or

c) "You've got a cold? Oh! You should have said."

[muppetgirl]

My MIL phomed the other day ina blind panic with the voice

MIL: Is dgc okay? (in the voice)
Me: Fine why? (have nursery phoned about some terrible awful accident??)
MIL: I've got flu and was so worried I'd given it to him (How? you live 200 miles away...)
ME: no, he's fine, he's not even got a sniffle...


why can;t she just phone and say 'hi' instead of always being so worried (in that bloody voive again...[angry)

btw she went to the drs and had a viral infection.

[DaisyMOO]

I find ill people annoying in general - good job I left medical school I guess

The only people I like when they are ill are my children because they go all cuddly and stop running around

My mum does this really annoying nose blow where she covers one ear with her hand and then blows her nose very wetly so that you can actually hear the snot coming out of her nose