How are u when you're sick?

[Lord DragonsWing]

Okay, here's a question for everyone. How are u when you're sick?

I ask this because right now, every few minutes I'm coughing and nothing I use seems to stop the cough.

My girlfriend made a comment this morning about men being sick. It seems women think we act for attention and have a low tolerance.

Hmmmmm, I went to work 3 days sick and yes, I want to spend my days off in bed. Prefereably cuddled up to her. I enjoyed coming home and having that extra hug for being sick and going to work. Yet I also wonder if I'm now classified with the stigma of men being whimps when they're sick.

So let's get to the point. How are u when you're sick ? And do men or women take illness better? And the final question, are men less tolerant than women or being ill?

 

[wehstar]

I very much doubt it is a man / woman issue. More likely a personal thing. For some reason, when I am sick, I try to talk myself out of it and drag myself into work. It is only when I am better again that I decide that yes, I was actually ill.

Normally I am fit, running and suchlike. But I don't anymore due to an injury. My wife, she has for the first time in her life, for the last six months, decided to exercise regularly. The upshot of this - whereas I would normally be able to take it in my stride better, when we both caught the last bug she got over it three times quicker than me.

Exercise is vital in life. Far too underestimated.

 

[SeaCat]

LOL

I too think it is more of a personality thing than it is a gender thing.

I see too many people of both genders who when they are sick are crybabies, and yet I also see many of both who just keep on going without complaint.

Cat

 

[Misty_Morning]

I am the biggest baby person when I get sick. When I'm at home all I do is bitch and complain and want someone to wait on me hand and foot. If no one is there for me...I'll call a friend to come over and take care of me. But that won't keep me from going to work.

Yes, I'm one those annoying people who will go in and infect EVERYONE. But I get my work done...I am a "trouper" besides no one can do a better job than me. There have been numerous times that colleagues have complained to supervisors to send me home. Once I get home I'm miserable..I'd rather be at work and happy.

 

[MagicaPractica]

I am the energizer bunny. Tea with lemon and honey keep me moving. Ahhh, nothing like caffeine and sugar.

 

[SlickTony]

Most of the time I'll drag myself to work and soldier on. Except if I've got a fever. Then I stay home and curl up in bed, and don't particularly care if anyone's there or not. The last time I got really sick was in '03--I had sinusitis, and it really started to hit me when my son and I were out buying a Christmas tree, and I was so disoriented that I took the wrong turn coming out of the Christmas tree lot and ended up going south instead of east, trying to get home. I was in bed for two days, and for at least a week my voice had no upper register at all.

 

[SeaCat]

The last two times I was sick were due to outside influences. The last time was because of a major infection in my ankle. I almost lost my foot to that one and only missed a week of work. (My Dr. wanted me out of work for two weeks minimum.)

The time before that was caused by inhalation Pneumonia. I inhaled a good dose of Wax Dye and within minutes was having a hard time breathing. I didn't let that stop me though. I kept on working. I went home and suffered through the night then went back to work the next day.

This went on for nearly a week before I woke up in the middle of the night unable to catch my breath. I was huffing and puffing and couldn't catch my breath. I could barely stand. Even moving brought on the flat spins. My wife called 9-1-1 and I was transported to the hospital on 100% Oxygen.

The Doctor in the E.R. freaked out. My saturation level was 70% on 100% O2. My lungs were filled with fluid. I spent the night in the hospital and would have been admitted if I hadn't fought it so hard. I left the hospital with a ton of toys and spent the next month at home breathing off a tank and inhaling medications on a daily basis.

Life sucked but I wasn't complaining. I could breath again.

Cat

 

[glynndah]

I've got a pretty high pain tolerance. Most of the time I don't even bother with anything stronger than aspirin, but when I got burned a few years ago, that hurt. The treatment in the doctor's office (the next day after emergency room stuff)was bearable, but he finally stopped and said I can't do this to you anymore. You have to finish this in a hospital. I fainted there, instead.

 

[scheherazade_79]

I'm a nightmare, because I find it very difficult to stay in bed and do nothing

 

[bruce_steele]

Aweful !

I was bedridden for 6 months last year and it was horrible! I was horrible, I felt so miserable and listless. I became so difficult, I screamed and whined! I've had to apologize to a lot of people since I got back on my feet...

 

[Chantilyvamp]

I'm pretty good about, first I try not to let on. Then I finally tell I'm sick, then I whinge every now and again to get it off my chest. And the rest of the time I suck it up shut up and get on with it. What else can you do when you have a toddler to look after during the day. I wait to do any collapsing until the hubby is off work or until little one is in bed.

Then I collapse in a heap from being sick and run ragged by said little one, unless of course I have school work to do then I shut up and try to keep head in one place and get the work done.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

Okay, here's a question for everyone. How are u when you're sick?

I ask this because right now, every few minutes I'm coughing and nothing I use seems to stop the cough.

My girlfriend made a comment this morning about men being sick. It seems women think we act for attention and have a low tolerance.

Hmmmmm, I went to work 3 days sick and yes, I want to spend my days off in bed. Prefereably cuddled up to her. I enjoyed coming home and having that extra hug for being sick and going to work. Yet I also wonder if I'm now classified with the stigma of men being whimps when they're sick.

So let's get to the point. How are u when you're sick ? And do men or women take illness better? And the final question, are men less tolerant than women or being ill?

About the cough: Try Ricola cough drops, the ORIGINAL kind. They are magic. I swear it. My dh has had a cough for weeks and whenever he's got a cough drop in his mouth, the cough disappears...

I think ALL people deserve nurturing when they're sick... it's a natural response, on both parts, to nurture the sick and to want to be nurtured when you are sick.

I don't think men are wimps for wanting to lie their head in a lap and be babied when they're sick... I think people would get better a lot faster if they listened to their bodies' need for healing...

When my husband nearly died last year--an abscessed tooth turned into flesh eating bacteria --he says that the thing he knows saved his life was 1. my intuition to get him into a hospital rather than wait and 2. my spending hours by his side, putting cool washcloths on him during his fever and generally just laying hands on him and praying a lot to the cosmos... I don't know if it's true, but the doctors said he never should have survived, given how bad it was, and they were shocked at how quickly he seemed to recover...

now, me when I'm sick? I'm a great big baby... wah!

 

[cloudy]

Pain I can deal with.

A fever, on the other hand, will put me to bed until it's gone. I don't give a shit if anyone's there or not, as long as I'm left alone. I'll sleep 23 hours out of 24 until I'm better....usually the best thing for you, because it let's your body heal.