DH claiming my cold!

[NewlyGranny]

DGC has gone back to school and brought home a nasty cold which was generously shared on the weekend. I have a throat like razor blades, runny nose, sneezes, aches etc, not to mention a tissue mountain.

DH cancelled a medical appointment this morning because he has "a cold coming on." I think that was wise as he could be infectious while symptom-free. He has phoned each of the adult DC to report that he has a cold, and his mother rang me to sympathise and suggest we both took a drop of whisky "to kill the germs" because his cold is so bad. Apparently she could hear it in his voice.

He is 100% healthy! Not a sniffle or a sneeze and his voice is firm as ever. To be fair, he has taken very good care of me while I took to my bed most of the day, but why can't I even have my own cold?

I'd happily hand it over if it meant I was rid of it. Should I go on being extra careful or sneeze ruthlessly in his general direction to make his claim come true?

Whenever I got this, or anything where I wasn't feeling well, my ex would say 'It's only a cold (or whatever) wouldn't help me at all, or look after the kids, get their food ready etc.

Then, when he inevitably came down with it, it was all 'Oh, if I'd known you felt it was as bad as this, I would have done everything for you'. Followed by demands for drinks, hot water bottles, keeping the kids quiet etc etc.

Just one of the reasons he's now an ex

He rang his dc to tell them he had a cold?

How do you live with that?

My husband is like this, I can never just be ill.

Like your husband he will look after me and sort the kids when I'm properly ill so I can't actually be that annoyed at him, but if I'm just "a bit" ill but okay to carry on he has to pipe in there too..

YANBU to be annoyed by him!

I'd up the stakes and say you think yours may be flu actually. It's what loads of men would say. See if he follows suit. And stay in bed!

My DH develops all of my symptoms, even when I'm pregnant

Oh goodness. You've got one of "them". Me too. Every time I get ill, my dh announces he's ill as well. I don't know what your dh's motives are but I know damn well that my dh does it so that he doesn't have to do anything extra for me because "we're both feeling unwell". It's infuriating. He's so good the rest of the time but the ill thing really gets on my wick. It's only linked to minor illnesses/situations, as after operations/giving birth/flu etc he's amazing so he can be thoughtful and caring, but when it's just a cold this behaviour always rears its head. So as a result I now don't bother doing anything for him when he has a cold and wants looking after. So really it's backfired on him rather than me.

Yup. I can never be ill on my own either. Whatever I’ve got he’s got it twice as bad.

“He rang his dc to tell them he had a cold?

How do you live with that?“

I wondered that too!

Bloody hell OP, between him calling his kids and his mother’s excessive concern ... wait, is this one of those threads where the OP writes using the voice of a well-known fictional character? Do you all live in a Jane Austen novel?

Yep dp does this too, so irritating. I was ill a couple of months ago and he thought he had it coming on, until we found out it was mastitis . Then his symptoms mysteriously disappeared.

I have one of these! He's not nasty with it but its so annoying. Like, just let me be Ill, it's not a competition!

Giggling at the mastitis one. DH once thought he had caught my period. I bad period pains (and poops ) I told him my tummy wasn't feeling good and I had cramps, he said he felt the same coming on. Sorry love, I get to keep this one all to myself.

@Notverybright

Yep dp does this too, so irritating. I was ill a couple of months ago and he thought he had it coming on, until we found out it was mastitis . Then his symptoms mysteriously disappeared.

Bingo - he is Mr Woodhouse! Send for Perry! I feel a draught!

He's announced his decision to spend the rest of the day in bed, and I've recommended him to ask Searle to boil him an egg. One of our small, Hartfield eggs will do him no harm and I trust only Searle to boil it. If only we had some of those nice Donwell apples, I'd make him a pie. Just a little one.

Luckily he totally gets it. 😊

My Dh had a bad case of Tonsillitis when I was in Labour with Ds1 , admittedly he was ill ,but It was,nt a walk in the park for me either ,I was induced and it took days , when I had the baby ,when well wishers phoned to see how me and ds1 was ,he told them how ill had been 🙄

hahahahaaaaa not just mine then!
I've had a cold and admittedly had an hour on the sofa. But still did the washing, cleaning, tidying, cooking etc etc.

Now heeeee has the same, only it's worse. We've had to purchase orange juice annnd paracetamol. He's lurking to see when dinner will be done even though he had a pretty fluent 2 hour phone call earlier today....