I don’t want people feeling sorry for me, but I have my fair share of health problems and I feel my OH completely belittles them. Almost as if he uses my health as a big joke and reason to take the P out of me to other people. He’s told family members, friends, midwives, and today the gym instructor, how bad I am at coping with pain.
I know others have far worse health problems, but day to day I cope with considerable body aches, some arthritis, eye disease that causes some double vision and the smallest amount of light can trigger unbearable headaches. I also seem to need much more sleep and just need to generally take better care of myself. Over the last few years I’ve ended up having five lots of surgery and have another one due this year. I’m honestly not complaining or asking for sympathy, but it does get me down that the severity of some of these things seems to be a big joke. He gets a skin reaction sometimes and believes it to be ‘the worst pain ever’ 🙄
Over the weekend I’ve had some really awful flu symptoms that actually had me moaning with pain. Not so much the fever, tiredness or cough/cold part, but I honestly felt like I’d been run over!! Went to the doctors today and I’ve got pneumonia. Doctor thought I’d done pretty well to last that long before going in as chest sounds awful.
But OH has been telling everyone ‘oh you should hear her, I’ve heard less pain on the battlefield’ ‘I’ve recorded her on my phone, never heard anything like it’ ‘no pain threshold at all’
Is he being a you-know-what? Or am I just being sensitive and in a bad mood because I feel so rubbish??
Thanks in advance!!