When my husband gets sick, he gets a Man Cold. You know, the kind where he has to lay in bed and he can't do anything because he's sooooooo sick. A little sniffle and OMG, he has to stay home from work and lay around and watch TV all day.
Yesterday my 10-year old daughter caught a cold. She was definitely under the weather so I gave her extra vitamin C, chicken soup and some cold medicine. While she was home with me she was still bouncing around the house and I had to ask her to settle down a few times so she could rest her body. She was still singing at the top of her lungs in her bedroom playing with Barbies.
As soon as my husband came home he went in to talk to her (mind you she was FINE all day with me). He comes out of the room carrying her because she is soooooo sick. He thinks she needs to lie down and we need to make her some special food. She wants soup (we don't have any more in the house). Now she's crying because she doesn't feel well so that makes my husband even more worried so I have to run to the store to get her some soup because that's what will make her feel better.
In the meantime I'm not feeling well because I caught the cold too! I was sniffling around all day as well. And HE can't go get the soup because he has to go back to work (he had only stopped home because I had told him she wasn't feeling well). I wasn't about to bundle us both up and drag ourselves to the store in the rain. And now he leaves and she has a headache and her nose is running. I calm her down etc. and gradually in the next 3 hours she is back playing with her Barbies and singing again.
When my husband returns before bed, suddenly she is crying and soooo sick again. And he DOESN'T BELIEVE ME that she was fine all day, a bit more under the weather than usual, but otherwise fine. Because when HE is sick, all he wants to do is lay around and he totally understands how horrible having a cold is.
Maybe this is more of a vent. Do you ever have this problem?
You do realize that mom's are the only one's immune to the Man Cold, right?
And that's more out of necessity than choice ;)
But havent you heard that the 'man cold' is deadly? LOL
Yes I have been there but currently my kids are grown. However when they are "sick" they still call me desperate for homemade chicken soup.
... Oh geez.
This is funny, but I know it is not funny as it happens.
Seems your daughter caught your Husband's idea of what a cold is.
Maybe, video your daughter... as she is with you, sans symptoms... and then show it to your Husband so he will believe you.
But don't tell your daughter it is to show your Husband. Otherwise your daughter will put on her "man cold" behavior like her Dad.
It always gets worse at night or in the evening. All my kids always have. Me too. I always start to feel worse in the evening. I'm sure she was fine all day, it's around 6 or 7 that they start feeling bad again, fever rises by around 8 or so. I don't know why this happens, but it is real. You are both right. She was fine all day and she was feeling much worse when he got home.
just LOL. Sorry no advice! You made my day =)
Oh yes, i have witnessed this though there are different versions. My son will sometimes have the "at home only" or "mommy only" version. So when we go to the doc, he is fine. But once back home, he is sooooooo sick. But we have had so many problems this year I won't just brush them off--and sometimes it is opposite. But a friend of mine gets the "grandma" version. Her daughter and husband get soooooo sick they could not possibly get out of bed or off the couch. So grandma comes over to baby them. And when you get sick, run to the store for soup for yourself.
