A while ago now I posted about my DH having secondary pneumonia after swine flu and being in hospital for over a week. He's been out of hospital for a month, very,very weak to begin with, but making a (frustratingly gradual) recovery. He's not back at work yet, starting a phased return next week.
While all this has been going on I've been doing everything round the house, holding down a very challenging full-time job, looking after a stroppy teenager taking exams plus a two year old who doesn't sleep through yet and DSS (7) 3 weekends out of 4. My wonderful Mum does my childcare so DH hasn't had any childcare to do whilst he's been off, but I have to cook for 3 adults plus kids, and do the shopping and do Xmas shopping.
I'd had a really exhausting week last week, really stressful at work, plus DS coming down with a sicky bug Thursday night and vomiting over every clean piece of bedlinen we own.
So at the weekend I come down with it. Does he take care of me like I have been taking care of him? Any bets?
DHF.
By early afternoon I was dead on my feet, freezing, and just wanted to go to bed. And he throws a stroppy because that means he can't go out and work on his motorbike (a Honda Mid-life Crisis, if any one is interested) and things just went downhill from there.
I am soooo angry. Today he's come down with sicky bug, and has therefore retired to his bed, leaving me to work a full day, including drive to and from work in terrible weather, then trip to supermarket, then cook tea for all, then pack suitcase for DS as my beloved saintly mother has said she will take DS to visit my brother and family for 2 days to give me a break, make pack-up for myself for work tomorrow, push stroppy teen into revising for her science exam, put next lot of washing in...whilst he has wandered around looking pathetic, clearly expecting me to let him off the hook and say 'ooh, go to bed, pet.' well he didn't say it to me so tough luck! And TBH, although I got a full and grovelling apology, that doesn't make up for the lack of actual, physical, in the real world bloody support!