To not understand the sick voice?

[Sexnotgender]

DH does a weak quiet voice when he’s ill and I just don’t get it.

Speak the fuck up man! You’ve got an upset stomach why the fuck are you speaking like that 🙄

Thankfully he doesn’t have a dressing gown.

@BarrowInFurnessRailwayStation

Mine has a woolly hat, wraps a blanket around himself and walks stooped over when he's ill. He also gets a weak voice and coughs a lot.

LOL!!! Mine is the same. He has the dressing gown of doom too, AND the slipper shuffle of misery, and also the weak voice, and the pathetic cough, (to remind me how 'ill' he is.) Then there's the obligatory 'I think I may need to make a doctors appointment' - ALWAYS around 5 minutes after they have shut for the night (or the weekend.) Really odd.

DH (like many men I have known) was ALWAYS 'ill' at Christmas too, (from about 7-8 years on the trot when the DC were little,) so the responsibility for entertaining and visiting my family (AND his,) and looking after the DC, as well as cooking Christmas dinner, all fell to me.

FOR 7-8 years on the trot (not from 7-8 years.)

Don't forget the 'mouth breathing' whilst doing the 'ill shuffle stoop' in dressing gown.

You need to both hear and see how sick they are.

And the 'I'll be ok' said in such a way that we feel they are absolute martyrs

I have a family member who does this. And a close friends husband does it too. My response is to laugh and take the piss. Works every time and keeps the mood light :)

And I think it’s pretty easy to tell if someone has a bad head cold/chesty cold.

My husband coughs like his grandpa when he's ill.

😂

I HATE the sick voice but when i have chest infections i sound like im putting it on

I was at the drs once, and very raspy and short of breath when he said ‘There are no signs of a chest infection’
I replied well i dont normally sound like this, He replied ‘Lots of people put a sick voice on’ 😂

Anyway, afew days later i went to A&E I had pneumonia, even there a nurse asked if i normally talk like that 😂😂😂

My mum does this! When I was a child I used to call it her "scratchy voice". She put it on recently to tell me that her hip was playing up again.

Don't forget the 'mouth breathing'

Oh God, yes. I think he was actively trying to infect me.

why are you whispering in a hoarse voice when you just told me you’ve sprained your ankle, it’s not connected to your voice.

My manager told me I didn't sound ill when I rang to say I wouldn't be in because of a sprained ankle, which meant I couldn't drive. I was intending to WFH, but was letting him know where I was. I pointed out my ankle was quite a long way from the parts I used to speak.

Also ‘sad, tired face’ to be worn at all times to denote the pity needed