men who are sick

When I'm sick, I go to work, anyway. I've come home from work halfway through the day, twice. One time, I couldn't stay out of the restroom. Another time, I had the flu so bad I was about to pass out standing up. I just drink Dayquil by the bottle and suck it up.
 

suck it up.

SO Ron.. I am about ready to leave work to go home to my DH who is miserable on the couch right now.. when he starts whinning should I tell him "suck it up?" [] 

I think that would go over incredibly well don't you? []

ORIGINAL: Cita

KCSO... he must be a REALLY special guy for you to have forgiven that debacle!!

He is  [&:]  I love him to bits, but that wont stop me from holding that trip against him for all eternity. 
 
I like how when he's sick he takes the most multi multi-symptom med he can find and just sleeps til he decides he's done.  Me, I take the minimum because I still have to take care of the kids, and feed everybody!  Where are my sick days??
 
Right now he's in the middle of a dental process that is taking months.  He whiiiiiines about it every day.  I greet him after work every day with "Hi!  Love you!  Work sucks and your teeth are bothering you, but other than that how was your day?"[sm=violinplay1.gif]

ORIGINAL: jjsmom06

suck it up.

SO Ron.. I am about ready to leave work to go home to my DH who is miserable on the couch right now.. when he starts whinning should I tell him "suck it up?" [] 

I think that would go over incredibly well don't you? []

I add Princess to the end of that quote and use it quite often. []

ORIGINAL: ron2

When I'm sick, I go to work, anyway. I've come home from work halfway through the day, twice. One time, I couldn't stay out of the restroom. Another time, I had the flu so bad I was about to pass out standing up. I just drink Dayquil by the bottle and suck it up.

i go to work sick sometimes too. if it is just a head cold, or sinus infection, or something like that ... big deal, but sometimes you have to decide is it worth infecting the whole office?

when i got sick a month or so ago, it was mainly because one of my co-workers came to work sick for a couple of days and spread it around the office. i wasnt the only one who got sick, and we all had basically the same symptoms as patient zero. i was out of work for 3 days. i know call me a baby and all, but i felt worse than i did when i had bronchitis a few years ago.

Wow I feel so lucky.  I have one who hardly ever gets ill and when he does he generally "gets on with it".  If he is quite poorly, he accepts "babying" without usually snapping my head off.\\I'll keep him when there's a clear out!

My dad and BF are exactly the same.  They have the mentality that no one has been as sick as they are [sm=rolleyes.gif].  They both lie in bed and mummy themselves in some blankets and moan.  After my dad is feeling better he can joke about it, he always says "It would have killed a normal man". 
 
At least my BF is appreciative of all the things I do for him when he's sick.  He always thanks me for taking care of him. 

i go to work sick sometimes too. if it is just a head cold, or sinus infection, or something like that ... big deal



Just be careful about sinus infections. I get two really bad ones a year. This year, even with antibiotics, mine turned into pneumonia! I had the sinus infection back in Feb., and I still have a little fluid in my lungs.

starts whinning should I tell him "suck it up?"

 
Yes.
 
"Suck it up! On your feet, soldier! The only easy day was yesterday. Bills don't stop arriving just because you've got the sniffles."
 
Actually, you can tell him whatever you want. My step-grandfather once stated that 95 percent of the work done in the world is done by people who 70 percent of the time don't feel like it but they get up and do it, anyway. He would go to work even as Grandma would ask him to call in sick and stay home. So, I do the same. I have to be falling down or about to in order to consider staying home. I have an advantage. I have a high tolerance for pain and discomfort. That is, I can hurt and be just as miserable as anyone here but I can put up with it forever. I have worked in the construction business, with severe back pain, a torn intermedial cartilege in my left knee, a broken toe, a broken hand, as well as colds and flus that knock most people on their keister. There are days when I have worn a back brace and a knee brace with metal springs in it. Why do I do it? There's no one for me to fall back on. I make about 3 times what DW makes. I have to go to work.
 
But that's me. Others' mileage may vary.