I Can Be A Big Baby!
So I spent most of last weekend battling a nasty case of Strep throat. But don’t feel sorry for me, feel sorry for Brandi.
When men are sick they tend to lie on the couch or bed and turn into a giant lump that might not move for hours while watching reruns of old cartoons and bad sitcoms – all while groaning, moaning, and whining about being sick. And no matter how minor the illness might be we generally think we’re going to die.
It’s amazing just how big of a baby I am when I’m sick. Any other time I’m a pretty low maintenance, independent guy. But when I’m sick I know I just about drive Brandi crazy.
I want her to sit by me (while I’m comfy in my snuggie).
I want her to wait on me (sprite and toast is my favorite when I’m sick).
I want her to listen to my whining and crying about how bad I feel (this could last for hours).
Being sick is a bummer. It makes you feel weak, helpless, and childlike. At least that’s the way it makes me feel. And when you’re a sick kid, who do you want? Mommy, that’s who! And since most of us men rarely have their mommies around, who’s the next best thing? Yep. Your wife.
What do you want when you’re sick?
strange, more than what i want is what i don’t want. coffee. i drink 8 cups every morning. but if i’m sick, coffee’s the first thing to go — and the last thing to return. i don’t know why that is. but it’s an easy tell for when i’m feeling under the weather; my wife knows immediately.
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So true! I don’t want coffee or coke or pizza or any of the other things I usually depend on for life.
I continue taking care of my husband and 3 sons. Lol!
Usually when I’m sick I just want to sleep and be left alone.
I would encourage you men to think on this little bit of advice from a woman (an actual wife of 23 years, to a baby, I mean husband).
I wouldn’t mind playing nursemaid, or mom to his fatal colds and hang-nails if that courtesy were reciprocated. But even with a temperature, I have been expected to carry out my duties as I always do. I have seen my husband (and children) cook, do laundry, wash dishes, vacuum floors, and mop…I know they KNOW HOW. But, alas, they hate doing those things. I think they believe I do them for the sheer joy it brings me. Not wanting to deprive me of my fulfillment as a wife and mother unless I have a doctor’s note in which I have been point blank told to go to bed and get some rest can I expect to have the chance to lay around in bed and catch up on all that garbage I’ve been collecting on TIVO… My only hope is that my favorite shows will go into syndication and in a few years I MIGHT get the chance to catch them later… we’ll see…but knowing my luck, the kids will all move out and then DH will come down with perpetual fatal sinus trouble.
(and they wonder why moms drink…)
too funny!
Oh, Julie! This rings so true to me today, this day after Mother’s day where no gift and barely a grunt of happy Mother’s Day was uttered, I was sick and still had to go about the day as usual.
oh honey, so true…..so true….
Oh Pete, you opened a can of worms here. Few topics get moms more riled up than this one.
I’ll refrain from saying anything except to say that I hope you get to feeling better. Would have never known you were sick while watching crosspoint’s live stream last night.
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Wait…You have your OWN snuggie? Or were you germing up Brandi’s? Inquiring minds wanna know…
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Being we are still around the Mother’s Day celebration…let me tell you about the time my wife had major surgery and then some complications that basically left her confined to a bed for several weeks…
after load after load of laundry, then folding said laundry, feeding the three kids, dressing them, school drop off and pick up, meals, soccer practice, baseball practice, homework, school papers to read and sign, dishes piling up, house to pick up CONSTANTLY…you get the drift
I don’t care what happens to me, God please keep my wife healthy! I’m just not “man” enough to handle what a MOM/Wife does…..
Amen!!!!
Chicken noodle soup. Not homemade, but like my mom made-pinched up biscuits in cream of chicken soup, chicken broth, butter and water.
.-= Kim Harr´s last blog ..Mother’s Day 2010 =-.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXLHWmjA5IE
Enough said.
I don’t even have to click the link to know that’s “the man cold” video
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my mom would always drape a cool sheet over the living room couch so we would be situated in front of the tv and near the kitchen, then she would give us mugs of crushed ice and gatorade. i try to recreate that every time i get sick…but it’s just not the same.
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You’ve got a good mom!!!
What do I want? To not be sick. My wife gets upset with me because I choose to not have her wait on me. I know, I know, I am weird. I try hard not to let her around me so she doesn’t get sick. ONE OF US HAS TO GO TO WORK!
Got a kick out of the comments though. I do prefer hot green tea with lemon when my throat gets scratchy. Other than that is has got to be Diet Dr.Pepper.
Pete, WHEN exactly did you lie on a couch? Because I saw you all over Nashville this week/end helping with flood relief and preaching all day Sunday. Just curious when you had time for that sofa-whine!?
http://dianemoody.blogspot.com/
When I said “last weekend” I meant May 1-2 which was the weekend before the flood hit luckily.
Ah. Ministerially speaking. Hope you feel better soon.
“ministerially speaking” LOL!!!
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When Im sick I always seem to think Im going to die. But then hope comes along and encourages me to think healing! And healing comes along and I get up off the couch and head for hills to walk and thank God for one more day.
Pete, you so nailed it. The moaning, whining, the “wait on me ’cause I’m sick” – Ugh! I, like you, am such a baby when sick. Just went through this on Saturday and my bride so patiently brought me toast and juice. When the situation is reversed, sorry to say, I just don’t have as good a bedside manner as she. It shows me just how Christ-like she is and how un-Christlike I can be. Lord help me!
It’s really difficult for me to rest and relax if my home isn’t clean(oddly enough, because I don’t usually care much when I am feeling well), so I usually do the dishes and some laundry before I can really go nap during the day!
I just want to go to bed and be left alone. Sadly, that hasn’t happened in years. (4 kids and a baby, ahem I mean husband) Coincidently, hubs has a bad cold right now and an ICU bed is on standby, ha ha.
I’m with Gina – to stay in bed and be left alone to sleep or zone with the tv – no talking, no excess noise.
Pretty much impossible since I often get sick when Sam is on the road and there’s a little human depending on me.
When I am sick, in most cases, I just want to be left alone. That is not to say that I have never played the “honey-will-you-do-this-or-that-cause-I-don’t-feel-good card. To be fair, she has done the same.
It all comes down to degree of sickness.
My wife has been known to complain because I have asked her to tie a nice knot in the stitches that I just gave myself
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Its funny that you are sick right now, because I am sick as well (haven’t been sick in 2 years). I do not have a wife that can take care of me, but when I am sick I revert back to when I was a little kid and my mom would stay home from work and take care of me. That was always the best, maybe because she was taking care of me, but also because we would get to hang out and talk. And I could gross her out with all the snot that I could fit into a tissue.
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I want a cup of Betty Crocker Cherry Icing. We put it in the fridge for an hour or so…then I eat with a spoon.
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That is great Michael. Love it.
Oddly enough pete, reading ur blog really makes me want to have a husband to take care of! Maybe i’m the one that is sick
ha!
Call me crazy but I’d rather be left alone with the TV (maybe a book), someone can come check on me once and a while to make sure I’m still alive
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Snuggie? Did I read that right?
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What do I want when I’m sick? Reeses Peanut Butter Cups. Lots of ‘em. I don’t know why.
.-= Karen´s last blog ..That’s a Four-Letter Word! =-.
When I am sick, I make the following demands:
1. A Boxed DVD Set of a Hit TV Show
2. Vanilla Pudding
3. A Back Massage
4. Meals in Bed (preferably tomato soup)
5. A New Magazine (Mac Life or Wired)
I just can’t believe my wife thinks I am high maintenance?!
When I’m sick I usually just demand to be left alone and I try to sleep until it’s gone. Even if that takes days.
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I grew up with a nurse for a mom. That being said, I just take enough motrin to get me through the day and go to work. The only thing that makes one sick enough to lie around in bed for the day is throwing up at this house.
When I’m sick, I just want to get better so I can continue taking care of my house and my other half. But then, I think that’s the womanly instinct thing. =P
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This is how I respond: http://kevinmartineau.blogspot.com/2010/02/silly-saturday-man-cold.html
.-= Kevin M.´s last blog ..3 ways to experience joy in our lives =-.
It depends on what the “sick” is.
ACHY, FLU-LIKE CRUD, LOW FEVER
1. Fresh batteries in the remote.
2. 12-pack of Coke Classic
3. Gallon of Coffee Ice Cream
4. Movies or TV-Shows-On-DVD
STOMACH BUG
1. Fresh batteries in the remote
2. 12-Pack of Coke Classic, or maybe 7-UP
3. Campbell’s Chicken Noodle or Cream of Potato Soups!
4. Movies or TV-Shows-On-DVD, preferably STAR TREK, STARGATE, SMALLVILLE, or WEST WING.
Meet those needs and I am VERY low maintenance!!!
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ohhhhh…. you have a “man-cold”!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXLHWmjA5IE
poor brandi!
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I don’t have anyone to take care of me when I am sick. I sometimes wish I did. My five year sometimes doesn’t understand that I can’t be Super Mom and do everything even when I am sick, but sometimes, he just hangs and is okay with it.