AIBU by staying in bed?

[Inkdrinker]

I've picked up some horrible illness, I'm hoping it's not covid but I'm waiting on lateral flows. I was so unwell yesterday that my partner sent me up to bed for the day whilst he had the 3 kids.
I've gone downhill overnight and now I have a migraine on top of it all. I'm feeling so unwell and can't bring myself to get out of bed but my partner is now in a mood and stomping around the house. I'm now feeling really guilty but I just feel so unwell 😭

You’re ill. He’ll have to cope.

Why wouldn't you stay in bed if you're ill?

Please don't be a martyr you are 'allowed' to be ill, stay where you are.

Btw your partner is an arsehole.

If you’re ill, stay in bed. Why is he stomping around?

Stay in bed, get well soon

You're ill, of course stay in bed. Why is your P being such an arse. You need to arrange a pcr test. LFs are no good if you are symptomatic

Stay in bed!

Let him stomp around the house. Would be get up If he was ill?? Don't think so...

Send him a text - say 'I feel horrendous, I'm not just slacking off in bed for the fun of it. Please stop stomping around as it's making my headache worse'

@namechangeranonymouse

You're ill, of course stay in bed. Why is your P being such an arse. You need to arrange a pcr test. LFs are no good if you are symptomatic

If in England or Wales, there are no more free PCR tests being provided by the government. I believe Scotland and Northern Ireland are still offering them, so it will depend on where the OP lives.

Good news is that LFTs, if you still have any (again, no more are being provided free in England) only take 15 minutes so the OP will know v soon if it’s covid.

What she does know already, without having to wait 15 minutes, is that her ‘D’ P is an arsehole.

Is he always so selfish and keen to ‘punish’ you if he has to step up and be a parent for a day?

He sounds like a knob
Is he always like this?
Stay in bed

Stay in bed. I had a random bug recently that knocked me on my arse. It wasn't covid but I couldn't have carried on as normal if I had wanted to. Tell him to pack it the fuck in or you'll return the favour when he catches it.

As an aside. Aren't PCRs are something like 250 quid now?

You've got a migraine but here you are starting a thread on Mumsnet?
Can 't help thinking you're swinging the lead a teensy bit.

@gamerchick

Stay in bed. I had a random bug recently that knocked me on my arse. It wasn't covid but I couldn't have carried on as normal if I had wanted to. Tell him to pack it the fuck in or you'll return the favour when he catches it.

As an aside. Aren't PCRs are something like 250 quid now?

No, you can get a free PCR is you display any of the 3 main symptoms

@namechangeranonymouse only in Scotland and NI as a PP said. The free PCR programme came to an end in England and Wales at the end of March and all test centres closed.

Pcr tests aren't available now.
Lateral flow came back negative.

My partner isn't usually like this but he's had a really hard time of it lately and personally I think he is depressed. I think he is fed up. We don't get any help with the kids or a break at all really, so I can understand his frustration but I'm not choosing to be ill.

When he is ill, he refuses to go to bed. I tell him to rest but he never does because he doesn't want me to be alone, so I think that's why he is angry but I always urge him to rest, he was the one who denies the help.