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Just when you thought it was OK to put the Nyquil back in the medicine cabinet, it strikes. Like a thief in the night, it creeps in, leaving no human untouched.
I had two men in my house. Well, one man and one mini-man.
THE MAN COLD TIMES TWO.
And I also got it.
Welcome to my nightmare…FAMILY COLD.
It was a game of “who is sicker”. It’s a super fun game to play. Also in the same category of fun? “Who got less sleep?” (which I always win because guess who has two thumbs gets up to nurse the mini-man in the middle of the night: *this girl*)
So there were two of us, hacking and sneezing with a box of tissues tucked tightly between our pillows. Next to me was the bassinet holding our son who is also snotting and coughing. We’re just one big snot factory. We’re also a used tissue factory, or that’s what it looks like on my husband’s side of the bed. He used an entire box of tissues in one day. I’m not even mad. That’s impressive.
We caught FAMILY COLD at the same time. By Friday I was feeling better. By Friday Hub was on his deathbed.
“You just don’t understand. I am………….REALLY SICK.”
Really sick? Like sort of how I had a cold while I was pregnant and could take approximately nothing other than vitamins and a hot bath?
“I need my rest. I mean, I’m wiped out, just exhausted.”
Exhausted, yeah I can relate. Like when I carried an 8 lb 11 oz baby directly in front of me, then pushed him out, then stayed up for 48 hours with only an hour nap, then slept a few hours, then was up at 3 AM again every night for 4 weeks? That kind of exhausted?
“Baby, could you go get me [insert beverage, food or medicine here]? I just feel so lousy.”
Sure, right after I feed the baby, change a blowout diaper, rock him until he stops fussing, then go to the bathroom because I’ve been holding it for hours, then get the dog some food because she’s been tapping my arm for 20 minutes, then stick the paci back in 30 times. Right after all that.
“Sweetie, can you give me some more sympathy? Maybe rub my back?”
I….I have nothing.
I can’t wait until I have two men in the house to experience MAN COLD!
*edited to add: Hub ended up going to the doctor and was, in fact, very sick. He received a steroid shot and two types of antibiotics. Well played, Man Cold….well played.*
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Good thing it's women who give birth
Ok I feel so blessed that my hubby is really not that bad as a sick man. I mean it has to completely knock him for a loop to even get him to lay down let alone demand service. Next time he asks for a backrub sit the naked baby on his back and say sure watch the baby while I SHOWER.. his crawling all over you should resemble a backrub
Get well soon…all of you!
Ugh that sounds miserable. I don't know if I could handle having a cold and a baby. I'm a pretty bad at being sick. I would really need someone to get my ginger ale/oj combo. My mom would probably have to move in if we all ever got sick.
Man colds prove that there is no justice in the world. When I'm sick? I still have a baby to take care of. When he's sick? He takes to his bed like Scarlett ohara
I love how, even after finding out he really was sick, you consider him to have played it well instead of being sympathetic.
Oh God love your heart. You know you don't want both boys in your house to experience Man Cold as men though because it may just force you to move out. Two men, complaining about how their sinuses are about to explode and how completely exhausted they are….I fear for their safety, actually. I hope everyone in the Blogworthy household is on the mend. Man Cold is NO fun and neither is being mommy to your husband.
xoxo
When I was sick J had no sympathy and wouldn't come within 10 feet of me for fear of getting my cold. Then he got it and I was supposed to wait on him hand and foot. Yeah…don't think so.
I hope you are all feeling better now.
My hubby is really sick at the moment and surprisingly not so bad! Lucky me, I get to go to work while he stays in sick for 2 days and deals with it on his own. hee hee
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Oh, yes! I know the game well…but we play "Man Sick" on any level, not just for colds. He's a-l-w-a-y-s sicker…Psh! He had giardia(intestinal parasite from drinking spring water) and WAS terribly sick and I nearly killed him by giving him yogurt and milk products. (The parasites LOVE milk substances.) But he lived and has gone on to use that little incident as part of the gamesmanship for every illness. Just 'cause I nearly killed him one little time–sigh.
I wish my husband could go through child birth then tell me about his little aches and pains. I have no sympathy for man colds or man back aches. When Luke is a big man you will give him sympathy because he will always for your baby.
I'm at least glad that he was REALLY SICK. Poor guy. But I love your responses. All awesome.
Trust me, it can and will get worse the older the little one gets.
PS Your blog looks pretty!
Men are ALWAYS more sick than women and babies. ALWAYS. We too got the family cold, fun times.
I often wonder where men learn to be this way when they're sick. It must be from their dads, gramps and/or older brothers. It sure as hell isn't from their mom!
God, the lack of sympathy during pregnancy and birth is just universal, isn't it? My husband had the gall to complain after my emergency c-section and my inability to eat for 3 days and oodles of drugs…that the nurses were too loud when they came (to, you know, check to make sure I was alive after MAJOR surgery) and I ended up sending him home for a night so I could relax
That said, good luck with the quarantine house!
ZOMG, you nailed it! I can soo hear him saying all those things! I've seen the man cold in person when I was there for Labor Day…it was unfortunate that he was sick but also meant we could have a full 2 days of trash tv!
I am just happy to say the only males in our household are the dog and three cats. I got nothing, too.
Feel better soon.
oh love the new look~
ShreeeeekkkK! The man-cold is in my house too! Their taking over the WORLD!