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Aargh! DH and Man Flu...just need to rant!

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mum295 · 31/01/2011 09:37

Apologies in advance for the rant, just need to get this out of my system so I can get on with my day!

Background information:

  • I am pregnant with DC2, 1st trimester, feeling knackered and throwing up loads, hardly eating
  • I also have this bloody cold, not just DH!

DH and I both came down with a cold on Friday. Thankfully DD (2.5) seems to have had it about a week before us and only has a lingering cough, but is otherwise cheerful.

DH has been a miserable so-and-so all weekend. He works long hours in a challenging job and I am SAHM so even though I am usually completely knackered quite tired by the time Saturday rolls around, I give him the Saturday morning lie-in so that he can recharge his batteries whilst I get DD up, feed and play with her.

On Saturday I was feeling awful in the morning (we both were), but after he got up I made lunch whilst he sat moaning about how bad he felt. I then crashed and burned, had to lie down before I passed out/threw up. To be fair to DH, he then took DD out for a couple of hours whilst I lay down. I then got up and helped with bath time/bed time and then threw up some more before getting an early night. BTW, he steers well clear of me when I am being sick, offers very little in the way of sympathy, just apologises every now and again for making me pregnant.

Sunday morning is normally my lie-in whilst DH takes DD out, but he didn't feel like doing that (fair enough). But he then didn't get up to DD when we heard her wake up, so I had to. I got her up and brought her downstairs for breakfast. He then appeared half an hour later saying he couldn't sleep. So I gave him my lie-in and he didn't even have the decency to use it! He then spent the rest of the day moaning about how ill he felt, although we did all go out and do a planned activity together in the afternoon.

This morning (Monday) he woke me up at 5.20am going to the toilet in the ensuite, then started talking to me about how bad he felt. I didn't manage to get back to sleep after that (alarm went off an hour later). DD had also woken me up in the night with a coughing fit, plus I have the usual pregnancy dreams resulting in poor sleep generally.

When the alarm went off he asked me all innocently "How do you feel?" at which I grunted. He then asked "Have you got a cold too?" Seriously?!?!? He couldn't understand why I then bit his head off!

I then got up, got DD up, got her dressed, breakfasted. To my astonishment he has risen from his sick bed and gone to work. He "has to" be there today, apparently.

Normally I would have told him not to be daft as he will pass on the lurgy to his colleagues, but I am sooo happy he's not at home under my feet today!

Sorry for the rant. Obviously he is entitled to be ill, same as everyone else, but he has made mine/DD's weekend a misery and I was flabbergasted at his lack of awareness of my being ill too. Oh yes, and as I am pregnant I can't even take anything to help me feel better! (Even if I did take something, I'd throw it up five seconds later.)

I should also add that this weekend has been a repeat of his behaviour at Christmas when he also had a cold. Refused to see GP on Christmas Eve and then spent Christmas complaining, hacking away. He coughs and sneezes sooo loudly.

Not looking for sympathy or anything really, just needed to get it off my (wheezing) chest. Grin

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