In not wanting my brother to come over if he is ill ?

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nutcracker · 31/12/2007 16:07

He only has a sore throat but sounds knackered etc and so I don't see the point, plus we have all been ill the past few weeks, the kids have had really bad colds and I had the dreaded sick bug. I don't want anything else.

He just rang to tell me what time he is coming and I suggested he stay in if he is ill but he said 'no it's fine'.

If he gives it to me or the kids I am gonna be so pissed off.

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captainmummy · 31/12/2007 17:40

I suppose it's too late to tell him that, actually, YOU don't feel up to it, cos iof the various bugs you have had?

brusselbeansprouts · 31/12/2007 17:41

I totally understand how you feel. That said, I live in London so would have to live in a bubble to avoid all the germs. Doesn't mean you want express delivery to your house though!!

TsarChasm · 31/12/2007 17:47

Oh sympathies. It's horrible isn't it?

You don't want to sound like a paranoid mother wanting to keep the whole family wrapped in an oxygen tent away from every little germ, but when you've had a run of it (and I never underestimate a dose of the dreaded sick bug ) it's blimmin difficult to welcome more of it into the house.

Tell db happy new year and sod off. Families eh..?!

Elasticwoman · 31/12/2007 20:25

Love your name, Tsarky.

My brother came over once when feeling ill and had a heart attack at our house!

I think you can ring your brother back (if it wasn't today he was coming) and say you've thought about it and your own family are not well enough and you'd rather not. It is time to be assertive and insist that you'd really rather not see him till next week at the earliest. If you pencil in a date, maybe he will feel you do want to see him, but just not now.

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nutcracker · 31/12/2007 22:51

Well he did come in the end as he'd already left. He was ok really not at all snuffly or anything, just had a bit of a sore throat.

I have felt really nervy about me or the kids being ill since I was ill over xmas. I know I can cope because I did, well my mum helped me, but it just gives me the jitters.

I'm taking the girls to see HSM on ice on Thursday and I am just worried that one fo them will be ill and we won't be able to go.

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