Man Flu

[nice90sguy]

Women will never understand the pain and suffering men go through...

 

[Kumquatqueen]

There, there, dear.

Have a nice hot toddy.

 

[nice90sguy]

I prescribed myself honey an lemon and ginger and old episodes of "Bewitched". Too ill even to wank to Endora rn.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Rx: add 1.5 oz ethanol to the above, PRN. Won’t do a darned thing for your flu, but will make you much more cheerful about having it.

Get well soon.

 

[SimonDoom]

I find the better the scotch, the less important other people's understanding of my long silent suffering as a man becomes.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

I find the better the scotch, the less important other people's understanding of my long silent suffering as a man becomes.

I usually use Glenfiddich in a hot toddy. Some might call it sacrilege, but I don't care. Certainly not after drinking it.

I do have to remember not to do that on the same night as taking more of the good opiates, though.

No comment on the man flu.

 

[Trionyx]

I know a retired doc who says since alcohol kills viruses (sanitizing gels, wipes, etc.) he drinks heavily when he’s got the flu. Swears it works.

 

[12oclocktales]

I hate hot toddies, and would rather endure the suffering than drink one. Now if your talking about tight hotties, that's a completely different story. Bring 'em on!

 

[lovecraft68]

Grow up wimp.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Women will never understand the pain and suffering men go through...

Manchild in the Promised Land

 

[TadOverdon]

There's got to be some way to get a LW story out of the Man Flu notion...

 

[Inthesewalls]

Period pain can be as bad as heart attack pain

sorry you are sick tho. Never fun.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Period pain can be as bad as heart attack pain

I didn't know heart attacks were meant to be painful! Thought they were silent with a bit of pain, like strokes.

Tbf I've compared giving birth to moderate period pain, because that is the identical pain, and 'made labour pains look mild' is a simile medics seem to comprehend and take seriously.

I recall nurses not bringing me my normal painkillers after birth and going "we don't really want to have you on those, do we?" Tetchy debate ensued, until the nurse heard me complaining to the bloke about my joint pain and annoying staff ignoring that and just quizzing me about other parts.

"Why do they keep asking questions about my vagina?"
"Well you did give birth with it less than 24 hours ago."
"Oh yeah. But that's fine. It's my hips that hurt."

Had meds back five minutes later.

 

[Handley_Page]

A lot may depend upon the definition of "Man 'Flu"

 

[nice90sguy]

I drink whiskey pretty much every day, except when I have man flu. Then I just want my mom. Or anybody's mom, actually.

 

[JaxRhapsody]

The fuck is the "man flu"?

 

[ElectricBlue]

The fuck is the "man flu"?

A man with a cold, who thinks he's about to die.

You've not heard the expression? Different planet, maybe...

 

[JaxRhapsody]

A man with a cold, who thinks he's about to die.

You've not heard the expression? Different planet, maybe...

No, I haven't. Sounds like a guy who lives his life like a sitcom. It's a cold... give your balls a tug.

 

[lovecraft68]

Yesterday morning I took my wife to the hospital so they could perform an oblation on a tumor in her kidney. Better than surgery, but she's had several and is in a fair amount of pain after them, then follows the side effect of a nasty fever for a couple of days. But not a complaint out of her, because several years ago cancer almost killed her, so she appreciates the fact she can take care of it this way.

But I understand, that being all sicky for a couple of days is so awful one has to post about it.

 

[LongDraw]

Yesterday morning I took my wife to the hospital so they could perform an oblation on a tumor in her kidney. Better than surgery, but she's had several and is in a fair amount of pain after them, then follows the side effect of a nasty fever for a couple of days. But not a complaint out of her, because several years ago cancer almost killed her, so she appreciates the fact she can take care of it this way.

But I understand, that being all sicky for a couple of days is so awful one has to post about it.

That's nothing. I cracked a fingernail this week and I was like "OMG! How will I possibly make it for drag hour at the library?" ;

 

[lovecraft68]

That's nothing. I cracked a fingernail this week and I was like "OMG! How will I possibly make it for drag hour at the library?" ;

Okay, true story, get ready to cringe. A long ass time ago I was cleaning the warehouse and grabbed an empty pallet to pick up. Someone thought it was funny to screw it to the wooden floor so when I yanked it I snapped off three finger nails.

Two things I'll remember other than realizing there's a reason people remove fingernails for torture was, one, no one ever admitted to doing it, and two-according to multiple people it was the longest and best swearing they'd ever heard.

But at least I didn't have a cold, apparently they're the worst!

 

[Comshaw]

Colds are bad, getting a sliver is worse. I got one last year on the dock when I was launching my boat. Didn't have the balls to dig in out myself so went to the doc to get it pulled. I whined so much she had to give me a local to get it out. I know, I know, a fuckin' whimp.





Comshaw

 

[ElectricBlue]

Colds are bad, getting a sliver is worse. I got one last year on the dock when I was launching my boat. Didn't have the balls to dig in out myself so went to the doc to get it pulled. I whined so much she had to give me a local to get it out. I know, I know, a fuckin' whimp

Bloody hell! That's doing a job properly!

 

[nice90sguy]

This is a great thread for detecting people with humorectomies