DC and I have had covid for almost a week now. Second time round, first time was thankfully very mild for all. This time I have felt like I have been hit by a bus, 39c+ fever for days, extreme fatigue, headache, nausea, pains, malaise and flu feeling etc DC have been very unwell too with high fevers and vomiting. DC are preschool age and a baby.
DH says the day I tested positive he feels unwell too, doesn’t have similar symptoms to us (no fever, etc just feels tired and under the weather, some diarrhoea.) DH tests negative but we assume it will be positive in the coming days. The next few days are spent in a blur caring for the sick children, very ill ourselves (supposedly), taking turns to nap while the other cares for the DC. I was lying in bed with fever feeling really unwell but was told to come down and help with the DC as DH was “really sick too.” Even when he was up he lay on the settee the whole time complaining how ill he was for days and how he was “just as bad as me” even without the fever.
I tested again today with a very strong positive (initial lft was a faint positive) so I asked DH to test again too as his should definitely be positive by now. (I had my suspicions at this stage as his supposed symptoms weren’t anything like ours.) Lo and behold his test is negative. He’s adamant he’s been just as sick as us even if it hasn’t been covid (what are the chances, eh?) I am absolutely disgusted that he would drag me out of bed with a fever to make me look after sick children while he lay sleeping on the settee feigning covid. I am so upset and now a huge fight has ensued and I don’t even want to look at him. He says how dare I say he hasn’t been sick (he has had no outward signs of illness, only symptoms he can say are affecting him.)
For info he has form for doing things like this, any time I am sick he says he is too. My most recent pregnancy he honestly spent more of it ill than I did.
AIBU to be this upset?