Sorry this is a bit of a rant!
DH has a stressful job. I have recently gone back to work PT and am finding it a bit draining. We share the morning shift with DD (15mo) - up at 6.30 -- which he is happy to do as loves seeing dd and is usually a practical, straightforward kinda guy, if a bit too stoic about things IMO.
He picked up a cold about 2 weeks ago which we've now all got, and since then has had trouble sleeping. This has happened before when he is stressed, but seems to be every night now. He starts coughing in bed then his head starts buzzing. Tried lemsips, propping up on pillows etc - doesn't work. It's driving me insane because for some reason he won't do anything about it unless i basically insist. I've gone through being supportive to basically nagging now and don't know what else to do!
I finally got him some nightol which he took - after an hour's coughing when I told him to! - night before last, and it worked. Yesterday I suggested again he gets some cough mixture (this hasn't occurred to him???), suggested he think about something herbal if he didn't want to do sleeping tabs so often and he agreed but then forgot. I was working and too preoccupied myself to do it. Apparently he didn't get to sleep until 2am last night?? he didn't take nightol again as he 'didn't want to do it two nights running'.
Why is he being so numpty about this? I'm finding work+cold exhausting and needing a full 8 hours and more or I would be volunteering to do his morning shifts. He doesn't ask, even when he hasn't slept. I have twice moved to the living room so I can get my head down and he can have the comfy bed- after an hour of listening to him cough and him not doing anything - I once found him coughing in the bathroom reading the news on his iphone* at midnight rather than disturb me - he was not even having a hot bath or something??? Last week he stayed up all night and worked as he couldn't sleep - then dealt with DD, then did a full day's work! How can I get him to put his health first?? We communicate well normally and have talked a lot about his work and coping with that... I don't want him to have a breakdown!
*PS it really was the news, this isn't a porn problem!