People are taking the complaint about wanting to lay around when being sick in an oddly defensive way. She wasn't saying that people shouldn't stay home when they are sick, she was saying that its hard to be able to lay around all day sick when you have small children, right?
Listen people, the single worst thing about being a SAH parent is not having someone be contractually obligated to watch your child during working hours when you're sick. Friends and family don't take potential plague carriers for the day.
Dh comes home when the kids or me are barfing, but he doesn't take them AWAY and they still climb all over me and ask me for everything. The last time I was sick he had an hour long conference call over lunch and I ended up throwing some goldfish and bananas at the kids, then going and laying on the tile in the bathroom for 30 mins while doing deep breathing exercises and holding my own hair back.
It's not the end of the world, but I get so jealous at the thought of watching what I want on TV and not leaving the couch when I have a stomach bug.
So how is it falling to pieces if someone does not have kids and does have a job with sick leave? I should not be at work right now, so what else am I supposed to be doing? What would be a more worthy way for me to spend the 8 hours I am home alone?
So how is it falling to pieces if someone does not have kids and does have a job with sick leave? I should not be at work right now, so what else am I supposed to be doing? What would be a more worthy way for me to spend the 8 hours I am home alone?
I have a coworker who is sick all.the.time. She leaves piles of snotty tissues on her desk, coughing, I've seen her puke I the bathroom twice. I started to hate her when she got pinkeye and walked around with he sleeves over her hands to pick stuff up so other people wouldn't get it. Everyone around her gets sick all the time. One coworker who is a cancer survivor had to be moved because I guess her immune system is weaker so she is across the huge room of cubes now.
We get 8 sick days, she never stays home. She lives alone, her kids are in college. She DID take off two years ago for that big apocalypse/rapture hoax two years ago though.
ETA she literally just coughed up some phlegm into her trash can. We share a cube wall. ::shudder::
So how is it falling to pieces if someone does not have kids and does have a job with sick leave? I should not be at work right now, so what else am I supposed to be doing? What would be a more worthy way for me to spend the 8 hours I am home alone?
throwing goldfish and bananas at strange children, duh.
i think stellas is just bitchily longing for her pre-kid sick life, that's all.
People are taking the complaint about wanting to lay around when being sick in an oddly defensive way. She wasn't saying that people shouldn't stay home when they are sick, she was saying that its hard to be able to lay around all day sick when you have small children, right?
No, she said that she wished she had the luxury of falling to pieces when she was sick, and then told those of us who have that luxury to fuck off.
And her kids aren't 8 so I don't know what she was talking about with that 8 years stuff.
So how is it falling to pieces if someone does not have kids and does have a job with sick leave? I should not be at work right now, so what else am I supposed to be doing? What would be a more worthy way for me to spend the 8 hours I am home alone?
One time when I was working from home while I was sick, my boss called and said, "Anyone who thinks the world can't get along without them for one day has an ego problem. Go to bed."
I occasionally luxuriate in getting sick. There really is nothing like laying on the couch all day, watching TV, and eating soup. To fully enjoy it, though, you have to be on the mend, LOL. I often think when I'm sick I'm lucky I don't have anyone else I HAVE to take care of.
Wait, are you the one that had the man cold a few weeks back?
That makes sense.
Stop being an asshole. Why do you give a fuck whether she's sick or not? Maybe if your H could handle both his kids at once you wouldn't be so jealous.
Lol. Yeah. The lazy bastard and his time sensitive conference calls.
How like when normal people get colds (by normal I mean women) we suck it up and deal with it. If a man gets a cold its like this:
I'm dyyyyyyying. I need chicken souuuuup. I'm coooooollldd but now I'm hoooooott. I think I can see the white light. Can you get me some medicine? This isn't working on my runny nose wahhhhhh.
This occurs in my house. When I had the flu DH said to suck it up. He had a runny nose and omfg we better make sure the will is up to date.
Stellas, I think you need a day to fall to pieces. Just because you're a SAHM doesn't mean you never deserve to get a break, especially when you're sick.
It takes me forever to get better if I try to keep chugging along, but if I get some R and R, I beat illness so much faster.
My husband is currently dying from ebola. It is pretty serious.
In all reality, he is having some weird allergy thing. BUT OMG if I have to listen to him talk about his symtoms 24/7 anymore I am locking him in the basement.
He also keeps trying to come onto me, because obviously he is well enough for sex, but I can't figure out a way to say this without coming across as a witch "If I didn't have to hear about your weird shin pain/thumb swelling/itchy skin (all unrelated but talked about in depth) in detail etc etc etc all the fucking time maybe I would feel in the mood to sleep with you."
As you can tell my husband is driving me nuts at present.
I'm terrified of becoming ill with a small child around.
Stella's grumpy hyperbole aside, it can be pretty awful. Sometimes you get sick and there really is no one else around (travel, or whatever). You still have to be the one who makes sure they don't kill themselves. Trying to keep a new crawler/climber out of vomit is not a fun game.
Of course they are, mofongo; I just think it's amusing that it blew up like this. I think people are a little -- as snips would say -- tetchy this morning.
I feel like you would feel differently if it were you who was sick and complaining.
I'm terrified of becoming ill with a small child around.
Stella's hyperbole aside, it can be pretty awful. Sometimes you get sick and there really is no one else around (travel, or whatever). You still have to be the one who makes sure they don't kill themselves. Trying to keep a new crawler/climber out of vomit is not a fun game.
the worst 2 days of my parenting life were when the husband was OOT and L got a stomach virus that ended up with us in the ER for dehydration for her, followed by ME getting the same illness the next day. i LITERALLY lay on the floor of the playroom while she sort of frolicked in my general vicinity, clutching a trash can. i even thought about stealing my 13 month old's zofran (i didn't, but i thought about it).
one of my primary thoughts at the time was that if i was on teen mom or whatever and someone was filming me, i'd never ever live down my piss poor parenting. EVAH.
when my husband came home (after taking a bar exam) i handed him a vaguely puke-smelling child (i couldn't bathe her without vomiting, so the only cleaning we'd gotten was sitting on the floor of the shower together while we both puked and cried) and ran away and hid.