I think I'm the worst wife ever - (husband with a cold)

[gritsar]

Day two of DH being hospitalized with e.coli and I told him to change his 'tude real quick or I'd be going home and not coming back till he was ready to be discharged.
He believed me. I stayed.

 

[PotterWatch]

I am the same way. I feel bad that I am unable to muster some kind of concern for my husband, but for goodness sake... suck it up!


ETA: The thing that bugs me the most when he is sick is that he wants to lay on the couch in the living room so that everyone can hear his complaining. Then he gets upset when I tell him to move his butt to the bedroom. After all, the rest of us still want to hang out in the living room without him passing us germs or telling us to be quiet because he has a headache. That's what beds are for!

 

[NoseyChickens]

Poor DH last night, sitting on the couch grabbing his head and moaning over his head ache. I told him he should just go to bed because I wasn't going to make the kids be quiet.

Besides, what if it's the swine flu? He should be quarantined!!!!

 

[SarahBeth9394]

Isn't it absolutely pathetic that when they do get up to go to the bathroom it's like the apocalypse. The moaning and groaning just to stand up semi erect and shuffle with those little bitty baby steps like their knees don't work or something. Barf. Try walking to school to pick up the kids with a 102.9 fever in triple digit weather pushing a todler in a stroller only to come home to being locked out of the house because someone had taken your keys as well as his own. Or ummmm back labor. That is why it's hard to be sympathic.

 

[smfamf]

My first husband would get sick all the time. He would sulk around the house moaning and groaning. I usually had no sympathy for him. I regret a lot of this now. At least with his whining, I knew he was alive and doing better because he had the strength to complain. The last time he got sick, I had no sympathy. He ended up in the emergency room. The doctors couldn't find anything wrong with him. Three days later he died. So yeah I know its annoying but at least he is there to whine.

 

[Chickie Mamma]

No sympathy here either. My DH was in the ER last night for chest pains. I am thinking Oh, my god, but it was acid reflux thankfully. But then I go from "concerned" to "what the heck" in a matter of minutes. If I was in the ER every time I get indigestion, I would live there. Last week he pulled a muscle in his back. What about my back?? Moaning and groaning. Try "natural" childbirth 3 times, then come crying!

 

[DuckLady]

I think you need to call the

for him.

 

[skeeter03]

Well sounds like my hubby - or is it all men??!!
but my dh knows he isnt getting any sympathy from me cause when I was pregnant and suffering from some pinched nerve in my spine and all the puking whatever else comes with being preggers - he looked at me and I kid you not and said "its not like your the first women to be pregnant" well now no matter what he gets the "its not like your the first man to 'fill in the blank"
I did feel a bit bad a few months back when he had a stomach bacteria thingy for a weak that left him puking every hour. but it was only a little bit bad lol.

 

[Rebel Rooster]

Wow! If some guys really knew how the wifeys felt about em' We're not all alike!!

 

[StupidBird]

I just shared the "man cold" video with DH. Its hilarious. DH just spent 5 or 6 hours carting my sorry self to the Saturday clinic and waiting with the 60 other sick people to see a doc, who briefly looked me over, ran the blood, nose swab, urine and said "you have a virus". DH only gets sick once every few years, but then !!! But he sheepishly says when we get out of the docs that HIS throat was a bit sore too...
It's hilarious, this thread. I seem to have the same husband. But yeah, I took his indigestion seriously last February and instead of driving the hour to the docs, took him straight to the fire station around the corner...minor heart attack, uh, huh! He made it through that ok. Sorry to hear how it was for you smafmaf