Partner has a cold - but he’s not dying !

[bagpuss90]

So he has a cold - yes colds are not nice. But it’s not flu , it’s just a cold . He’s been in bed all day. Already said he won’t be going anywhere this weekend. He’s feeling so sorry for himself. I’ve had colds when the kids were small and had to soldier on. I still do. He’s virtually calling the undertaker ffs. I’m not unsympathetic- I’ve got him paracetamol , strepsils and so on- but bloody hell . This is a light hearted post - but aibu to find him a bit cringy ?

He’s being unreasonable to already be saying he won’t be able to do anything all weekend.

But I hate it when people say “just a cold”. Some colds are really mild. But some are awful, and I’ve definitely spent a day in bed with a really bad cold before.

I woke up with some bug, and feel bloody awful.
Sore throat, barely any voice, temperature, sore eyes, tight chest.
I sympathise with him, as other than cooking some lunch (warming something in the oven) I've done bugger all, all day.

Edited to add, and I doubt I'll do much tomorrow or weekend either unless it goes as fast as it arrived. 💊

Sniffing followed by vomiting because you’re so bunged up. Colds are horrible

Because it’s bollocks.

when I get a cold it knocks me for six people have different thresholds for sickness and colds can have different effects and for me it’s horrible.

But how many times does that actually happen? Yes, people still due from flu but they usually have something else wrong with them or something underlying for it to really escalate. Weird they were both doctors and didn’t notice.

I came down with what I would have classes as a cold on Sunday. Rested the day but went to work on Monday and felt wretched all day that night I was up coughing most of the night and a terrible headache. Now had a consistent headache for 3 days, not matter how many painkillers i take, sore ears and chest pain. So I am encouraging you to be open minded to his complaints.

Husband had a cold that morphed into pleurisy. Gosh he was poorly.

Maybe just read the science perhaps!?

Or look at deaths due covid say:

Male mortality was 50% higher than female mortality due to covid. Men also suffered from more severe symptoms & inflammation due to covid generally than women did.

See below from Google search: (1st result!!)

RESULTS. Of all cases in 73 countries, 42,933,757 were in women and 40,187,894 in men; 1,274,663 men and 971,899 women died. In overall, the IFR was higher in males (3.17%) than in women (2.26%).

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Sex differences in COVID-19 fatality rate and risk of death

Abstract

While clinical characteristics exhibit that susceptibility to COVID-19 infection is equally likely between males and females, clinical outcomes show that males experience both a higher severity and fatality for COVID-19 infection than females.....

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11481-020-09974-z

We’ve both had the most horrific cold. I started with a sore throat, which progressed quickly to coughing until I puked. Had three days off work sick (I’m a lecturer and no way I could have taught) and three weeks on am still not right. DP got it after me, and is also still coughing.

I picked up some decongestants at the pharmacy earlier in the week, and the assistant told me the pharmacist had/has it - he’s a big Viking type bloke. She said he’d done the half day Saturday like the walking dead, gone home at 2 and straight to bed, then wakened up at 7pm on Sunday other than toilet/water. Another member of staff in the relatively small shop was off with it on the day I was in. I think this is a really nasty bug. I lost taste and smell for a few days so did wonder if it was Covid but didn’t test - I was at home for five days anyway because I was so rough.