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Would you be annoyed or disappointed at something like this?

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KittyScratch · 01/09/2021 13:57

I wasn't feeling well in the summer time. My doctor diagnosed a uti. I went home with antibiotics. A month later the same symptoms came back with another fever. I went back to the doctor. My doctor felt confident it wasn't a uti or kidney infection due to the tummy feeling she did. It was more GI and colon. She hinted at an inflammation colon condition but we don't know yet until I get some tests. I'm waiting on the hospital for further tests. It will be a few months away.

I live at home and my mom asked me how I got on at the doctor. That was last week. I now think she asked me just being nosy and not out of a genuine want of caring for me. I don't think she is able to comprehend what I might be facing. I think she thinks the antibiotics are smarties. She always treated the doctor as a place to get attention and sympathy. She's always so happy to skip out with a prescription of pills. I treat the doctor as a place to go when you are not well. My doctor knows when I turn up, it's genuine. I can go years without seeing a doctor.

Im a bit disappointed at my mother. Not once has my mother asked me how I was since I came back from the doctor. I'm feeling very tired and I don't know if that's the infection clearing or the infection getting out of control or a side effect of the antibiotics.. Not once has my mother cared to ask me how I am. I have a brother at home and if he was sick it would be a different. She would fall over herself to ask several times a day how he is but me, no.

OP posts:
meanbeany · 01/09/2021 15:27

I thought you said she did ask you when you got back from the doctor?

Aprilx · 01/09/2021 15:36

I don’t understand, she did ask about your doctor appointment.

peachgreen · 01/09/2021 16:04

Um... she asked how you got on, you said you're going to need some tests but they won't happen for a few months. What else were you expecting from her?

Biancadelrioisback · 01/09/2021 16:08

In what way do you want her to care for you?
When DH or I are unwell the other will pull their weight a more to take the load off, but we don't really dote on each other...

Slub · 01/09/2021 16:10

You sound about 12 Hmm

Guineapigbridge · 01/09/2021 16:34

It's normal to want some care, at any age. What would happen if you went to her and said, I'm feeling very sick and I just want to go to bed and for my mum to make a fuss of me.
As a mum, I'd secretly love to make a bit of a fuss of a sick daughter.

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