View Poll Results: lets sort it once and for all?who moans the most when ill?
ladies
14
23.73%
gentlemen
45
76.27%
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man flu
Mar 16th 2008, 6:33 am
#31
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Re: man flu
Men get man flu, women get bird flu. Everyone knows bird flu is deadly, but you'll find man flu gets moaned about a lot more.
My stepson went back to school after he'd had a cold a couple of years ago and told his teacher that he'd had man flu. He couldn't understand why his teacher was trying not to laugh........
My stepson went back to school after he'd had a cold a couple of years ago and told his teacher that he'd had man flu. He couldn't understand why his teacher was trying not to laugh........
Bless him!
Mar 16th 2008, 11:39 am
#32
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sex so it was only going to turn out one way.
Mar 17th 2008, 12:10 am
#33
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Re: man flu
My mother was a twighlight district nurse. She drove around from 7pm until 11pm and helped terminally ill patients to bed. Sometimes they were dead when she got there. Sometimes all alone. She was devastated every time.
Can you imagine the sympathy I got when I had the sniffles!
JTL
Can you imagine the sympathy I got when I had the sniffles!
JTL
Mar 17th 2008, 12:13 am
#34
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Mar 17th 2008, 12:17 am
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Re: man flu
I was a DN in the UK and worked Twilights as extra.... you described the exact same scenarios in my job and the same kinda lines my kids came out with...
The most infamous occasion was when My son actually had to produce x rays before I took his broken collar bone seriously....
The most infamous occasion was when My son actually had to produce x rays before I took his broken collar bone seriously....
Mar 17th 2008, 12:19 am
#36
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Re: man flu
It would be an interesting piece of research .... "The price nurses choildren pay to support a caring profession"
Mar 17th 2008, 12:21 am
#37
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Re: man flu
Mar 17th 2008, 12:23 am
#38
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Re: man flu
I sometimes get home from work and am all niced out and have nothing left for anyone... not even my own kids
Mar 17th 2008, 12:35 am
#39
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Re: man flu
I was a DN in the UK and worked Twilights as extra.... you described the exact same scenarios in my job and the same kinda lines my kids came out with...
The most infamous occasion was when My son actually had to produce x rays before I took his broken collar bone seriously....
The most infamous occasion was when My son actually had to produce x rays before I took his broken collar bone seriously....
I've still got the scar in my hand from the glass that went into my hand from the accident. If it had been treated at the time... no scar. But some things are more important I suppose.
JTL
Mar 17th 2008, 12:39 am
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Re: man flu
After I had a car accident when I was 17 (yes it was my fault), I stood in the kitchen arguing with my Mum who was about to go out to work, I had blood pouring down my arm from multiple wounds. She honestly couldn't care less about me, she was going out to deal with her patients.
I've still got the scar in my hand from the glass that went into my hand from the accident. If it had been treated at the time... no scar. But some things are more important I suppose.
JTL
I've still got the scar in my hand from the glass that went into my hand from the accident. If it had been treated at the time... no scar. But some things are more important I suppose.
JTL
so perhaps I'm a bit more sympathetic to mine. My kids also say that if they are really ill they prefer me to look after them than any one else because I'm kinder and know what they need before they do
Mar 17th 2008, 12:46 am
#41
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Re: man flu
My hubby was sick with man flu and had to have a week off work - the same strain got me and I had 1/2 day off.
If you are okay to play the xbox so you obviously aren't suffering from the flu IMO. When you wake up in a delirium then I will maybe agree that you are sick!
Mar 17th 2008, 12:57 am
#42
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Re: man flu
After I had a car accident when I was 17 (yes it was my fault), I stood in the kitchen arguing with my Mum who was about to go out to work, I had blood pouring down my arm from multiple wounds. She honestly couldn't care less about me, she was going out to deal with her patients.
I've still got the scar in my hand from the glass that went into my hand from the accident. If it had been treated at the time... no scar. But some things are more important I suppose.
JTL
I've still got the scar in my hand from the glass that went into my hand from the accident. If it had been treated at the time... no scar. But some things are more important I suppose.
JTL
That is bloody awful , I know I have put patients above my own kids, going to work when they were sick, I even worked night shifts at the hospital when my son was an inpatient on the ward next door... just so I could be near, they only let one parent stay over night and he wanted his dad... not surprising really, all the unsocial hours I worked........ which is horribly, horribly wrong.
I suppose you loose perspective, no excuses
Mar 17th 2008, 12:58 am
#43
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Re: man flu
MEN - all the time!! 
Doesn't matter how ill I AM, he has to go and get it MUCH, MUCH WORSE.........
Then mummy darling will come over and fuss round him cause i'm too busy to play nursemaid to his little illness.....
Women work through illnesses cause they have to.......and if a woman has to take to her bed whilst ill, then you KNOW that she's really, really poorly......
Doesn't matter how ill I AM, he has to go and get it MUCH, MUCH WORSE.........
Then mummy darling will come over and fuss round him cause i'm too busy to play nursemaid to his little illness.....
Women work through illnesses cause they have to.......and if a woman has to take to her bed whilst ill, then you KNOW that she's really, really poorly......
