Subtitle: Why do men and women seem to suffer the flu differently?

My family got the flu this week. Bella woke up at 2:30. Sick. 3 times. All over her pajamas. And OUR bed that she had crawled into an hour earlier.

Got her all cleaned up. Re-made the bed. And then my alarm went off. Ugh. Of course all of this woke the baby.

So I shower and go off to work. On the way.. And it only takes me 7 minutes to get there.. My phone rings. It’s my husband. The baby had just “gotten sick” all over him.

Poor baby. Poor hubby.

Work was understanding. They let me go home and Angela filled in for me. I held the baby all day. She didn’t know what was happening to her. And that leads me to the POINT of this blog. People handle sickness differently. I think Zoe is going to be like me. Avoid getting sick at all costs. I have an IRON stomach. And when it fails — use mind over matter so nothing comes up. We just don’t like that whole stomach ick.

Bella is more like her dad. She’s a champ. She lets it out when it needs to get out. (I’m trying to avoid the words in case you’re eating your breakfast while reading this)

Now let’s talk about my husband. He wasn’t too bad this time. Perhaps it was because we had joked about it two days earlier. But he has a tendency to MOAN the entire time he is sick. LOUDLY. I find it to be very annoying and I don’t know why I can’t be more MOTHERLY to him like I am to the children. They can throw up all over me and I don’t mind (that much). But he moans and asks for aspirin and it’s a little annoying to me. Is it because he’s the man?  And I want him to take it like a man??

I on the other hand, and others may disagree, suffer the flu in silence. I’m moaning on the inside. To myself.

I’ve talked to my girlfriends about this. Lot of them say the same thing. Their husbands turn into needy babies when they get sick. Why is that???

I thought I had missed getting bitten by this flu bug but as I write this things are just not right inside.  I just hope my husband doesn’t read this until AFTER he runs out for meds, gatorade, etc.