... in bed with ( at the risk of sounding like a bloke ) flu.
If flu were an animal .... Swine flu would be about a 5 , a hamster would be about 1 , guinea pig 2 etc then this would be a whopping woolly mammoth , weighing in at number 10. Now I am sounding like a bloke. I'm not sure what it was but I never want it again. I'm not going to bore you with the details .
You can tell how delirious with fever I was .... I awoke from a nightmarish sweat on the Sunday night to see the Tin Tin Twins go through to the next round on X Factor - see how deluded I must have been ?
For any men reading this , what women want when they are ill is the following :
1. Occasional room service.... ie. an unsolicited cup of tea on a tray maybe once or twice during the day.
2. Fresh bedlinen, volunteered with good grace, at some stage following 3 nights of sweating.
3. To have the children taken care of without having to worry about whether they being fed, loved and generally taken care of.
What we DON'T want is :
1. "I didn't bring you up a cup of tea because you didn't drink the last one"
2. " I suppose I'm going to have to change the sheets now you've been sweating in them "
3. To finally emerge after 3 days of fever to find the children still in their PJs in the afternoon having eaten their way through their own body weight in chocolate chip cookies having spent the last
18 hours glued to the XBox.
Sorry to hear you've been poorly. Wooly Mammoth flu hasn't hit the headlines in this part of the world yet, but I'm sure that once it does most of the male teachers at work will succumb ;-)
ReplyDelete