Comments on: We Just Don’t ‘Do’ Being Ill

By: natalie cox

natalie cox — Thu, 19 Oct 2017 20:43:55 +0000

Oh gosh I feel like someone in our house is constantly ill – since the girls returned to school in September someone has been poorly. My husband always seems to suffer the worst though (of course!!)

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 08:09:15 +0000

Apparently, there really is such a thing as man flu – who knew?!

By: Jill

Jill — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 13:41:57 +0000

My ‘other’ grandson, when aged about three and asked what was the matter with his Dad who hadn’t come to a family get together, answered very matter-of-factly: “man flu,”. At which your sister burst out laughing and said”whoops, he must have overheard me telling a friend that at church this morning”.

By: Suzanne W

Suzanne W — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 11:46:14 +0000

Isn’t it funny how it affects us all so differently…is it the same virus, do we all have different pain thresholds, do some of us just need to ‘man up’? Know there’s an interesting expression for you!

By: Suzanne W

Suzanne W — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 11:45:16 +0000

He may well get the deadly strain that I got but he’ll only get as much sympathy as the first two got from me…I don’t ‘do’ other people being ill ha ha!

By: Plutonium Sox

Plutonium Sox — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 11:11:05 +0000

Haha this does make me laugh! When you say that your husband will get the weak strain, presumably he will get the weak strain but have at least four days off work ‘dying’ in bed?? I hope you’re all better soon.
Nat.x

By: Sarah MumofThree World

Sarah MumofThree World — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 10:57:36 +0000

Love this! We’ve had just the same in our house (and the houses of nearly every girl in my daughter’s class). My daughter was properly ‘ill’ for a day – really pale, non-stop coughing and no energy to do anything. My eldest took great delight in telling her that she ‘wasn’t ill’. Until he got it. Then it was really bad, but he bravely soldiered on. My husband seems to have had it FOREVER and has taken rather a lot of paracetamol and blocked the toilet with all of his tissues. And me? I had a throat like razor blades and a blocked nose, but I ran 12 miles anyway. I’m still a bit snotty, but I’m basically invincible!
When I mentioned to my husband that it was weird he always got colds worse than me and wondered why, he just got cross! But there must be a reason, right?