Is your DH a baby when sick?

Snapdragon750

Mine is driving me crazy.  He caught the baby's cold and has been doing nothing but whining and moaning about how he doesn't feel good for days, asking me if he has a fever (he doesn't), feeling not up to doing dishes, putting the baby to bed, etc, yet feeling up to going to the gym and running errands.

I don't want to be unsympathetic to a poor, suffering DH, but seriously.  It's just a cold.  I barely even notice when I have a cold.  The baby didn't complain this much when she had the same cold.  What is the deal.  Please tell me my DH isn't the only man who does this.

ougrad1

I honestly think that it's a guy thing.  My dad and little brother have always been dumb when they're really sick.

My girls are troopers but, Hudson, God bless him.  All he wants to do is lay on me when he is sick.  

 

nancy30005

Your man has the MANCOLD. It is evil. LOL

It is worse than the well known child-cold.

I am sending you lots of T&P.  

ridesbuttons

men are pussies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI47hKhNLLc

nanabanana06

Yeah, I hate the mancold. DH thinks he is dying when he has a little sore throat. It's seriously sad.

Mrs.adambabycakes

Yes.

Whenigrowup

I'm lucky.  My DH just isolates himself.  He doesn't want to talk, whine, or be around.  He goes to bed, covers up, and sleeps it off.  He won't even let me really cook for him, except jello if he has a stomach bug.  He doesn't help, but he doesn't make me wait on him, either.

Snapdragon750

Spooko:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EElqrgk4N0

YWIA 

LOL!!!

All ya'll's posts made me laugh. Hope DH doesn't hear me and ask what's funny, but I'm sure his ears are all plugged up from his man-cold.  Besides, I think he fell asleep at like 8.  Maybe men's bodies really do get worse colds!!  I should mention the baby is a girl, so obviously this is why she didn't seem so bothered.  Mystery solved.

Snapdragon750

Whenigrowup:

I'm lucky.  My DH just isolates himself.  He doesn't want to talk, whine, or be around.  He goes to bed, covers up, and sleeps it off.  He won't even let me really cook for him, except jello if he has a stomach bug.  He doesn't help, but he doesn't make me wait on him, either.

DH asked me yesterday at 4:00 if I could make him chicken soup (from scratch).  I told him I'd be happy to, but I don't have the time to go to the store for the veggies and chicken AND have the soup made by dinner.   

Today at 4:00 he asks me again for chicken soup for dinner.  I tell him that I need more notice if he wants homemade chicken soup, and he said, "but I've been sick since yesterday!"

I didn't have the heart to tell him I thought he'd be over it by now. 

LuckyDad

Weeeird.

I deny I'm sick. I once had a productive cough that lingered for two weeks. DW begged me to see the Doc. I kept saying "It will get better" or "I think I'm a little better today".

I know I'm sick when I go to bed on time or early.

DW is the baby when she's sick in this household.

Hesterlicious

DH is a whiny baby when sick or injured. DS is a champ and you can't tell there is something wrong with him except for runny noses and being up all night. I am interested to find out what age he will turn wimpy.

Snapdragon750

LuckyDad:

Weeeird.

I deny I'm sick. I once had a productive cough that lingered for two weeks. DW begged me to see the Doc. I kept saying "It will get better" or "I think I'm a little better today".

I know I'm sick when I go to bed on time or early.

DW is the baby when she's sick in this household.

Oh going to the doctor is a whole separate issue.  DH will whine about x health problem for years, then as soon as I tell him he should see a doctor he'll insist it's not so bad and/or there's nothing a doctor can tell him that he doesn't already  know.

emriley84

Yep. My husband has a cold too. He acts like he can't move off the couch. I had the same cold last week, and still managed to work, clean the house, take care of a toddler and be pregnant. He can't even walk to the diaper genie to get rid of a dirty diaper. Men are babies when they're sick.

J&A2008

LuckyDad:

Weeeird.

I deny I'm sick. I once had a productive cough that lingered for two weeks. DW begged me to see the Doc. I kept saying "It will get better" or "I think I'm a little better today".

I know I'm sick when I go to bed on time or early.

DW is the baby when she's sick in this household.

You THINK it's like this.  DH would say the same.  He "toughs it out" and rarely sees a doctor, but instead seeks out my advice on every body tingle, scratchy throat, ache, odd mole, etc.  Repeatedly.  Habitually.  Incessantly.

I am not a doctor.  I beg my husband to see one, if only so I don't have to listen to his whining, bitching, belly aching over all these symptoms.

I don't think he's tough for not seeing a doctor.  I think he's an idiot.

Lilywildcat

I flucking hate the man-cold. HATE. Every time the kids get sick, I end up catching it and i have no choice but to care for the kids even though i feel like shhit. When my DH catches something, holy shizz, it's like no one has EVER been as sick as him!!! He always tries to tell me how he is so sick ( insert whine) and why he can't do dishes, bathe kids, take out garbage, etc.

True story: I suggested going out for burgers yesterday. Besides i had to go grocery shopping after ward and asked if he could come home with the kids. He said ok so i didn't make dinner. He gets home at 6pm and says he's not really hungry and doesn't want to go. WTF dude? it's 6 pm, i didn't make dinner because you said we'd go out! Ok so i told him to give the kids dinner because i have to get groceries, we have no milk and bread but he insists i take the kids because he's 'sick'. NOPE. no deal. I have been sick for the last 9 flucking days all while taking care of 3 sick kids and i managed.Then my sister stopped by while i was out shopping and saw that my H looked like shizz and bathed the kids for him. Lucky shitt.

catycate

OMG, yes. One time he told me that a virus the whole house had must have mutated when it go to him, because there was no way I coud have taken care of DS if I felt as bad as he did. That was the end of any and all sympathy for my DH during sickness.

MJHershey

Actually no- he wants to be left alone but he still tries to battle through it. 

insertclevername

Yes, my H is a giant baby when he is sick.  He at least acknowledges it.  I also make him pay for it once he is feeling better.

jorkz821

MollusksWrangler:

No. But to be fair in 5 years I've never seen him sick longer than 24 hours. He usually takes a cold pill and by the time it's worn off he's better. He's hot a super immune system and has passed it into Mollusk.

DH us hardly ever sick either but when he does get it, watch out. No one has ever been as sick as him apparently EVAR in the history of the world.
He wanted to cancel DDs 1st birthday party because he had the sniffles.

missmuffin87

LuckyDad:

Weeeird.

I deny I'm sick. I once had a productive cough that lingered for two weeks. DW begged me to see the Doc. I kept saying "It will get better" or "I think I'm a little better today".

I know I'm sick when I go to bed on time or early.

DW is the baby when she's sick in this household. 

See this is the problem with the mancold. It clouds the mind of the afflicted man and leads him to believe that he is totes toughing it out to the point that he doesn't even know that he's spent an entire week curled up on the couch whining about the deathly illness that he refuses to take any medication for.  

LadySnowblood

And this is why I'm kind of glad men don't get pregnant and give birth. We would NEVER EVER EVAR hear the end of it.

Prime

I tend to not get sick.  My immune system is much better than my wife's.  When I do get sick I generally try to do things for myself so she won't be more exposed.  Seems like I could get away with a little more though...

FormerlyKrista555

Yes.

It's terrible, but I ignore him.  He's always complaining about something being stuffed up, sore,whatever.

The only time I take him seriously is when he's complaining about serious stuff. (He's a medically retired disabled vet).

shibby00

Mine just isolates himself which is just as annoying, because when I'm sick shizz still has to get done. I don't get to just go to bed and rest.

EMOmamma

Yep.  H was home sick this week and there is a good chance he was sicker than anyone ever (at least that's what he thinks).  

The most annoying part to me is that he would rather suffer and be a martyr than help himself.  He will whine "ugh, my head hurts so bad"  Me "did you take advil or anything" him "sigh, no"  DUDE - you're a fuckings adult - if it hurts get a GD painkiller yourself.  

I'm sorry you're sick, but I'm taking care of myself plus a baby who is teething and not STTN and a toddler who also is sick, so no, I don't have time or energy to coddle you. 

Wow, apparently I needed to vent about this. 

alli&dan

Yes. Even if DD and I were both sick with the same illness, he insists he got a stronger strain of whatever we had.

Disneygeek77

Yes my husband is a big baby when he is sick.  However, he has gotten much better since when we were first married.  He was always convinved he needs to go to the hospital and one time he asked me for a throw up pot.  I just looked at him and said " Seriously a throw up pot, I'm not cleaning that up.  Put your hand over your mouth and run to the bathroom like a big boy." I mean we have a master bathroom and he was probably 10 steps from a toilet, there is no need for a throw up pot.  I haven't used a throw up pot since I was six. 

Since we had had children, he has toughed up.  Perhaps I gave him too much grief over wanting a throw up pot.

Snapdragon750

shibby00:

Mine just isolates himself which is just as annoying, because when I'm sick shizz still has to get done. I don't get to just go to bed and rest.

This!!  I don't think I would mind it nearly so much if DH turned into super-dad and totally took care of the baby and everything around the house when I'm sick.  But no.  I once crashed because I had a terrible headache (not common for me at all), and he woke me up to ask me to make him a sandwich.

DH came in last night convinced he had bronchitis, and this morning said he felt like his head was in a vise.  So I told him to go see a doctor, and an hour later his chest feels totally better, his headache is probably from the weather, and bronchitis is just a fancy term for a cold anyway.  I guess doctors CAN cure the common cold! 

JET29

My husband is the worst to be around when he is sick. He thinks he gets things 100 times worse than everyone else; it doesn't cross his mind that he just overreacts. Last time he was sick, he had a fever and almost made me take him to the ER because he was convinced he was dying. We went to the doctor the next day, it was just a virus, he was fine the day after.

I am glad to hear I'm not alone with this.