FGS Men/illness god they are so CRAP!

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I've had a sore throat for 2-3 days, ds1 (13) has had cough and cold for 2-3 days. Neither of us maoned about it, just had a strepsil and got on with our life.
I also have 4yr old dd and ds2 4 wks both healthy. Obv am up 3-4 x a night with ds2 breasfeeding and the like, plus kids on hols so 3 kids all day etc...

Dp...
Gets home yesterday - is dying from his sore throat and immediately rushes to take his temperature - ooh it's up look 37.3. Moans continually about how crap he is feeling (oh and he is so tired)
So I snap and say of FFS suck a strepsil, take a lemsip and get over it. Take my temp (38.1) and ds1 temp (38.4) and thrust it in his face, yet ds1 and I are doing all the work!

He had no idea either me or ds1 were also suffering. Because we're not men obviously...
so last night I'm going to bed early as am whacked
He only comes and tries IT on not that effing ill then... Bearing in mind we've not resumed THAT yet after ds2 as well.

Anyway this morning I've woken up with sinusitis, dp is SO ILL he contemplates sick day but drags himself in realising I'm sicker than him and being at home will be harder for him than work..

And today he went out and bought a Wii games console.
WTF

Oh I soooo sympathise ... one like that here too. DS been sick for 3 weeks with flu which turned into stomach flu (v & d) and nasty cough ... a real poor wee soul. I've had it 3 weeks too - hacking cough. DD had cold and temp for a few days. Everyone just got on with it. DH is so ill he's had 2 trips to doctors, is on anti biotics, is having to take naps, etc etc. It's very annoying and interesting, like your dh isn't not affecting his interest in nocturnal activity ... in spit of the fact we've been up several times with DS.
Hope can we stop our DSs from turning out this way....

Poor you. My dh also goes into work when he's ill, because he knows he'll get more rest sitting in an office then being at home looking after small ill children!

He has staged an awesome recovery...
until the morning no doubt...

They are fkng wankers when they're sick aren't they, I do sympathise. Dh is wonderful but when he's ill he clutches his stomach and uses an especially irritating low moany voice that makes me want to kill him.

fking man flu my arse

yep
cannot simply blow/wipe his nose, has to be done with great sniffs and gulps and poor me type whimpers.

Anyway the cure for man flu appears to be
a nintendo Wii

sadly the next generation man child has also staged a remarkable recovery...

but why are they all like this? why? WHY?

at least he didnt say 'i know something you can take for that,(wink wink)'when you told him you had a sore throat.

i have heard that line many times before but not from my dp,who is very strange and had to be on his last legs before he will admit to being ill.

i still find it amazing that men find the time to have naps etc during the day,i mean,ive often needed to lie down but i just dont get the chance,i just have to pretend i'm not ill untill the kids go to bed then pass out on the sofa.

tell me,does he say he cant hold the baby as he doesnt want to pass his germs on also??

Here is my theory.
Controversial.
Mothers know what their girls will have to go through re: pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding.

So subconsciously prepare them for that by being tougher on the girls when they are ill in their early years.
Men do what we would would all like to do but have been programmed not to do.

Well, I do feel like snarling, tried CHILDBIRTH DARLING? Thought NOT...every time dh is dying of some v minor ailment.

Utterly, utterly pathetic. I'd Love to see one do childbirth, would give my right arm to see it in fact. Can you imagine? They'd spend weeks recovering, weeks.

My dd is a very petite 4.5 yr old she had a temp of 42 with measles at 15 mths but still was alert and charming, albeit very ill, she smiled through the pain.

Ds (13 5ft 2 size 8 feet 7 stone of nearly manboy)gets a temp of over 38 - he collapses.

can you imagine the male ante natal threads on mensnet
I'd train to be a midwife FOr sure if men could give birth
I'd learn to sew them up really neat

Your comment about men giving birth reminded me reading a story about a man who dislocated his shoulder and went to hospital to have his shoulder put back in. during the process he screamed and shouted the ward down .Eventually a nurse from the ward next door come over and Mr Jones, there is a women next door who has given birth to twins and with no pain killers she has not made half the noise you have since beieng admitted. To which the man replied, 'yes, but try putting the buggers back in then!'

I have dislocated my shoulder and it did hurt far more than childbirth (3 kids here (not all at once) no pain relief) in all fairness.

oh i don't know soooooooooooooooo true a saying if it was up to men the population would run out.

Some men soooooooooo let male side down. no pain threshold at all.

ditto to my other half.

Tell me about it DH is always dying when he is ill and I just have to get on with things.

If I have the cold it is just a cold

If dh does it is 'flu' and he might as well be at deaths door.

I might have put up with this but he is a GP for goodness sake!!!

Men are crap when they are ill,there are no 2 ways about it, you might as well put up with it till he is better!!

My wife won't let me be ill, she'd kill me if I was!

proper order too