If any of you happen to stop by, you’d be likely to conclude he is suffering from shingles, fybromyalgia, sciatica, TMJ, bone cancer, a kidney infection, colitis, and lupus all at once. But no folks, the staggering, the groaning, the whining and whimpering, the begging for medication… it’s all the result of flu. I’d hate to have you waste all that money on flowers and sympathy cards.
It’s going to be quite a blow to him when we go to the doctor in an hour and he hears he can’t be pushed around in a wheelchair or be prescribed Vicodin. It’s the FLU, honey. I know it sucks. Remember how I stayed sick for 7 weeks last year after catching it? But didn’t take a sick day, didn’t stop caring for the baby, didn’t stop cooking, doing laundry, grocery shopping? Been there, sweetie. Ooops, I’m sorry, am I speaking too loud for your widdle aching head?
For your own sanity’s sake, make him some of my Mexican soup if only to shut him up while his mouth’s full.
[li]** Sopa De Arroz Con Pollo**[/li]Chicken and Rice Soup
[sup]Submitted by Zenster[/sup]
There’s a stomach flu going around up here, and my husband had it yesterday. I had it last week, and so did both of my kids. For Pete’s sake, the children complained less than my husband did (kids are like that, though. They just puke and move on with their lives).
Granted, this bug is not particularly kind, and it really does make one feel pretty darn crappy. So can understand the occasional “man, I really feel like s***!” But the whining! AAAAAAAGH!
Then, THEN, after spending the majority of the day either asleep or in the bathroom, he says he’s going to play his regular Tuesday night gig. I don’t go for name-calling, but that just capped it for me. I told him he was an idiot.
He stayed home, and fell asleep on the couch at around 8:00.
I do NOT like being mean, and especially not to my husband, but sheesh! You’re that sick, but you want to go to work & spread it around? Come on!
“There’s a stomach flu going around up here, and my husband had it yesterday. I had it last week,
and so did both of my kids.”
I bet. The flu is a respiratory item. Not a stomach item. You may have got food poisoning, which mimics it really close. That’s why your family got it, same food or same food preparation surfaces.
If it becomes like a cold, however, it may be the flu.
Most of the women I talk to say they have the flu, but they don’t see, they have a cold.
I’m not so sure, handy. Several people that I work with have it, my stepmother had it, and my stepson’s older sister had it as well. My stepmother lives 45 miles away, and my stepson’s sister picked it up while she was in New York. We live in Michigan. If these people who do not live with me, and do not eat at the same table as me didn’t have it, the food poisoning would be the first thing I’d think of. I know that what most people call “stomach flu” usually turns out to be some kind of food poisoning.
In the adults that I know that have had it, it’s lasting for more than a day–usually 3-5 days, and there’s no cold symptoms. The kids seem to shake it pretty fast, usually 1-2 days (this includes the 7-year-old son of a co-worker). Also, we’re not all getting it at the same time. My husband felt really bad the Friday before Christmas, then better for several days, then crappy again yesterday. I, on the other hand, didn’t start having symptoms until the Thursday after Christmas, a full week after my husband’s first signs.
