to think that dh needs a big slap

[SerendipitousHarlot]

FOR. FUCKS. SAKE.

YOU HAVE GOT A COLD. YOU ARE NOT DYING. I DO NOT NEED TO BE ADVISED OF EVERY STAGE OF THE COLD, AS IT HAPPENS.

1. I think I'm getting a cold
2. Oh sneezes here it comes
3. sniffs coughs Told you, told you, I'm definitely getting a cold
4. sighs sighs sighs-a-fucking-gain Oh I do feel rough, it's getting to my chest, I can feel it

Again. FOR. FUCKS. SAKE. You haven't helped me one jot this weekend, because you are too poorly. You FUCKING BABY. SUCK IT UP like everyone else has to and do your fucking job like everyone else has to.

Twat.

DS caught a cold once, so of course I was going to get it. I was sitting there feeling generally death warmed up, when DH put a hand on my arm and said:

Just to let you know, I've gone and deliberately caught DS cold, so I'll know how he's feeling and will be able to get the right stuff to treat him.

I swear, faced with the 2 men in my life both being ill, while having the same frigging cold -which incidentally no bugger noticed- if I'd have had a fire-arm, I'd have turned it on myself....

SH: If it's any consolation, think the chicken pox is a tad early, though the symptoms are like the mother of all colds, for about 10 days.....

Stock up on vino sister, you're gonna need it!

groundhogs

That is just awful!

How's Mr Death's Door today? did he survive the night?

Man Flu - a step up in seriousness from Swine Flu.
DP is the same, swooning like a Victorian maiden when he has a bit of a cough.

He did. At least I think so, I'm at work

I don't dare ask....

He slept in bed with me last night instead of on the living room floor, like the night before - and I didn't hear him cough once in the night!!

pmsl @ 'swooning like a Victorian maiden'

Victorian Maiden? wukter hits the nail on the head!! pmsl!

Of course, SH, if you ask him if he's better, he'll give you that maddening non-committal shrug, as if to try and extract one more ounce of sympathy...

Gah!!

Every wife needs to keep a well-stocked supply of cold medicines on hand. You know, the kind that knock grown men out cold so you don't have to listen to the whinging and moaning.

Do you have Nyquil where you are? It's that awful red or green liquid that tastes like bottled hate but induces coma within minutes?

I'm still looking for Flintstones chewable morphine.

AmericanHag I think that's Night Nurse here

He's gone to bed a while ago tonight, thank god

Not before telling me about how he had to 'peel his t-shirt off' his body earlier due to the immense amount of sweat

I expect he has Dengue fever.

Oh god, SH, you deserve a ffing medal love!

Sweat soaked t-shirts? Arghh!!

I have to admit to seriously considering spiking DH's drink with Medised on many an occasion. But will stock up on NightNurse in future....

Oh yes, this'll interest BetaDad and galvanise our female cause...

I bought that Vicks Cold and Flu defense spray... OMG does that stuff work or what? - Vile, yes, up the nose, ew, yes, but does it catch colds and send em packing IF you catch them quick enough OH YESS!

I bought DH some, swearing by it, saying if you spend any time with anyone with the sniffles, or if you ever feel that tickle at the back of your throat, take this, it really does work, but you have to keep it up every X no of hours, but you won't succumb to the cold.

Well, you'd think it was Holy Water to a flaming vampire.... every cold he inflicted on me caught I'd say, well you do have that stuff...Oh no! he'd say, no, wouldn't take that...

GAH! I did try.... but they have to be ill and they have to make a big poofy song and dance about it.

That said, I am dying of cold myself (didn't feel this cold coming till too late.. The Cold of Doom, and stealthy too!)and DH (still not back home from his flaming country) has actually called me to see how I am...

'tastes like bottled hate'

Groundhogs, is that the stuff in the ad where the mother throws the tantrum in the supermarket? I love that.

I am very grateful for my DH, who hides like a creature when he is ill.

However, DS makes up for it, with BabyMan'Flu! Bless him, though I'm sure it won't be so cute when he's all grown up and hairy.

A Beta Dad - I admit to being one of those awful women who has no sympathy and will mutter about "man-flu" and sneer and feel superior with his "oh woe is me" utterances....but then dh's "man-flu" turned into something not at all nice and he's been really unwell for almost a fortnight now, so am eating humble pie and my words and actually finding some consideration for the poor bugger
No doubt I shall still have a go at him once he's well about how I've had to do EVERYTHING for the past 2 weeks and hows about I get a lie in, blah blah......