Everyone watch out.......McDaddy is sick with a Man Cold.
What does that mean exactly?
Well, for starters....please whatever you do, do NOT expect him to do anything that doesn't involve lying in a bed.
Also?
Can you please shut the door behind you on your way out? Those kids are way too loud.
Truly, you should be grateful that he can walk to the table to eat the chicken soup you made him. And in reality, the only reason he is even getting out of bed at all--rather than have you bring it to him--is so that he doesn't get "cracker crumbs" in the bed. Cracker crumbs in the bed is akin to sheets made out of poison ivy: They make him all "itchy".
You will continually be asked to check his forehead...for he is sure a fever is starting any minute. Have your thermometer on standby, because you touching his head and saying "You don't feel warm to me" is not enough. He will need thermometer proof.
Most of all--UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCE--should you ever ask him to "keep an eye on"any children. Are you crazy?! He has a MAN COLD, for heaven's sake!!
How is he supposed to lie there and be sick and watch his James Bond movie if there are kids hopping all over the place??!!
Now of course, what happens when you --the mom-- gets sick?
Exactly: NOTHING.
Please stick to your normal routine and carry on life as usual.
I mean really, you don't truly think that your husband...who deserves a gold medal for surviving the horrendous crippling cold....should stay home and take care of the kids so that you can lie in bed and be sick and feel sorry for yourself, do you?!
Sheesh....Go cry to your Tylenol bottle, lady.
I mean, come on....it's not like you have a MAN COLD.
Monday, October 6, 2008
Man Cold
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74 Comments!:
I have had an annoying man day, too- but he doesn't have the excuse of a man cold- I'm fairly certain I would have killed him!
Ohh, the Man Cold. Hubby gets that. He also gets the Man Headache and even requires Man Naps. Good times;)
Well, hell, I'm turning MY next cold into a Man Cold.
Ah yes, the MAN COLD.
When we get sick we keep the house going, probably go to work & tough it out.
When boys are sick they ARE DYING OMG HELP HELP HELP.
Silly little boys. They have to be coddled when they are sickly & we -- we are troopers!
Seriously!
So about a month ago, my husband had a BAD man cold and he had to watch our 6 month old for 11 hours while I shot a wedding. He was a trooper. Oh and our baby doesn't take a bottle so he's a real trooper. However, normally, Man Cold rules apply. Of course I caught that cold and hubby actually stayed home from work to take care of the baby so I could have a Woman Cold. So I had some good Karma somewhere...
The infamous "Man Cold", my husband's caught that cold germ too. When looked at under a microscope, the "Man Cold" germ has a TV remote and a beer.
Yeah, its right up there with the 'Man bad night's sleep'
You know the one - when you've been up all night with the kid/s and come morning, when you've had, say . . . 10 minutes sleep and manage to croak out 'Love, I am soooooo tired - can you get breakfast for the trouts this morning'
And he says 'Bring me a coffee and I'll get up and help you - I didn't sleep much last night'
Ha! My husband is a doctor and you would think he was infected with the plague every time he gets a sniffle. Yeah, guy can take care of people with heart attacks but he can barely take care of a runny nose.
So very true. Sad. But true.
i just love the man cold...the world pretty much ends when that comes around my house.
you should go to youtube.com and type in man cold...all i have to say, hilarious!
Ughhh, they always turn out to be the biggest baby in the house-you could have 5 kids but he'll beat them all!
Amen...good grief! I agree...
Men....ugh
{smile}
Ah yes, the Man cold...Im fairly certain that last year when my husband came down with that, he almost died. That's right, it was a really close call there for a while, what with the sore throat and stuffy nose. For heaven sake's he couldn't even breathe correctly, let alone do ANYTHING that resembles moving. Sorry McMommy :) hang in there!!
It's like they expect you to be their Mom when they're sick, but when you're sick they expect the house spotless and a home cooked dinner on the table at six with the kids homework done and bathed so he can sit in front of the t.v. with a beer so he can watch Monday Night Football... yeah, the Man Cold- gotta love it!!
I would leave a witty comment, but alas, I'm coming down with a MAN COLD and can't be bothered.
*lol*
That excuse would work, were it not for the pair of.....OVARIES I possess!
Doooood. I need a Man Cold.
Men+Cold=Weenies.
Yup - I can relate. Hubby gets sick and the world stops . . . I get sick and nothing changes except I feel like shit and basically fall down the stairs from exhaustion. That's precisely why men don't give birth . . . they could never really handle it, could they ;-)?
oh my...yes, the man cold is a powerful tool for all of our hubbys! Those sneaky sneaky guys!
Oh yeah! The man cold rears its ugly head in our household about twice a year!
Hysterical. I think I feel a Man Cold coming on right now...I could use a day of rest!
Oh I hear you loud and clear, same thing at this house!
My husband's a firefighter...He has "shadow symptoms" of a Man Cold LITERALLY after every overtime shift he ever works, especially when the OT falls between two regular shifts. (He claims the AC system needs cleaning, blah blah blah...sniff, sniff, sniff.) That, coupled with the "Man Bad Night's Sleep" (hello??? IT'S IN YOUR JOB DESCRIPTION!!!), my girls and I can't decide what's worse -- at home or at the station?
When I die, I want to come back as a MAN!!!
I am not interested in having a penis...just all the other perks.
Like being able to lie in bed when I am sick and be doted upon.
I never get that as a WOMAN!
I'm just saying!
I think I need to catch that Man Cold from him!
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
'nuf said. Silly Man Colds. The Man Flu is worse...but the Man- Needs -A -Break -From -the -Toddler Gaming Breaks are what really get me.
Hahaha, don't you love it? Mom never gets a sick day, but the whole world comes to an end when dad gets sick. The other day I was puking my guts out, but still was taking care of the kids and feeding them dinner between runs to the bathroom. Then over the weekend hubby gets the same thing only not as bad as I had it and he didn't move from the couch for two days!
I so hear you! And I married a man whose mother used to bathe his forehead continually with cold cloths when he was ill and give him sponge baths at 2a.m...when he was 18!!!!!! Poor guy, it makes his suffering so much worse now he just has me to look after him... if saying 'oh dear' in a really sympathetic tone of voice counts as looking after!!!
Men become such little babies when they have a cold ;)
OMG! My husband does the exact same thing- to a every single detail. Why are men such babies when they get sick, even with something as harmless as cold?
F'in man colds. Hate 'em. Hate any time the man is in any kind of pain or even close to feeling sick.
Mine does get up though just to come across the house to moan about how sick he is and try to get sympathy. It's totally pathetic. And he checks his temp 80 times a day. At least.
oh the dreadful man cold.
i am pretty sure it still sucks worse for us :)
Amen.
OHMYGOD - I thought it was only my husband! Since my dad and brother never did this.....I hope McDaddy feels better soon!
funny you should write this now. Flyboy is down with a man cold and cant fly since he cant clear his sinuses (something about his ears exploding or something he was explaining as both kids were crying and quite frankly his ears exploding would have been justice). He's on the road so he's not here to lay around so that means he gets to just lay around in peace and quiet somewhere else. Since he cant fly he's off the hook for the whole damn day. Just laying around.
And yet what happens when I'm sick? I lay on the playroom floor with cheese slices tossed around me hoping they will feed themselves. I told him to remember this for next time. Doubtful.
At least I'm not bitter. Thats so unappealing.
Ah yes, the man cold.
My poor husband figured out YEARS ago, that I do not possess the "Florence Nightingale gene" required to nurse people back to health or give sympathy to grown men.
Sorry, I can occasionaly drop off some Tylenol, but I will not feel your head. Eeeww, it might be all sweaty.
Good luck with your patient.
YES! That is what I am freakin' talking about. What is their deal? Aren't they supposed to be manly men?
Seriously I hate the man cold. It's far worse then anything else on the planet - men kill me.
So funny, yet so true. :)
Hmm, I rememberwhen my son was almost 4 mths old. I had mastitis, 104 fever, throwing up, shaking, practically passing out AND the baby was also sick. All I got over the phone was "well...what am I supposed to do?!" Nothing dear! At least I'm not dying from something like the Man cold!
Oh yes. The Man Cold. Mr. Lipstick claims that he does not act this way.(but he does)
Men and their stupid man colds!
I mean, it kills them to even throw their Kleenex away! So not only are we waiting on them hand and foot and running our family as close to normal as possible...but now we have Kleenex to throw away.
Which = now we catch the man cold but can't do a damn thing about it.
Men. Hmph.
Oh my GOSH, it's SO true! I've been sick for days, guess what's changed. Oh right, nothing!
Yup. At least you know he's a normal man. THAT would be something to worry about don't ya think?
Sorry that deleted comment was from me. The link was for the wrong video.
have fun watching Man Cold!
Ah yes, the man cold. My hubby just hides out in bed when sick, and isn't too much trouble. I'm probably the bigger whiner. I stay in bed and ask that he keep the kids away so that I can sleep. This doesn't last long...they always end up diving on the bed when I'm deeply resting. That's fair.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXLHWmjA5IE
You are completely hilarious, and I am in love with you right now. How about this? Marry me, and I promise, I'll let you have MAN COLDS if you let me have them. And we'll take care of our four kids in common.
Okay, it's not really a good plan at all. But I totally sympathize. :)
Oh that is the worst!! I tell my family all the time...why is it that when everyone is sick I have to care for them, but the minute I am sick they still want dinner and other things...ugh! :) Thanks for making me smile today...
Um, so did my husband move into your house or something?
Definitely ROTFL worthy!
Wow, seems like you've been the 'fly on the wall' at our home a few times! LOL, sounds all too familiar to me! Great post, LOVE it!
Someone, PLEASE...for the love of all that is good...come up with a cure for the common man cold!
That is too funny. I lump man colds right up there with man pounds and dog years. They just don't equal ours in any way, do they? I figure the equivalent is
3 woman colds = 1 man cold
1 woman pound = 7 man pounds
1 dog year = 7 people years
So true! I hate the man cold! One day, you should just stay in bed and see what happens.
This is so true of my hubby...but when I am sick I still do it ALL!! Moms do have super powers!!
Consider yourself lucky, when my hubby gets a cold he whines about it day and night, but will he rest, take any medicine or go to the doctor? NO WAY! Instead, the cold will last for weeks instead of days.
My husband is the worst when he has a cold. It drives me crazy!
You have my absolute sympathies. Men are the hands-down, no contest WORST sick people EVER!
I'm baffled by the man cold. And envious too. Because as I type, I am afflicted with a plain old mommy cold. And I'm hating the injustice of it all right now.
You are awesome!!!!
I wonder if men take lessons somewhere on how to manipulate a minor cold into a Man Cold. Because, honestly your husband and my husband do the exact same thing. Funny thing is that after the kids go to bed at night, he all of the sudden has some energy to go downstairs and play video games or watch a movie on the big TV. Unfortunately, by morning he is feeling much worse again. And there is no arguing this point with him, it just happens to work that way.
I don't think there has been a single time that I have been sick that he hasn't asked me what is for dinner or if I feel up to cooking dinner. Really???
Okay, then I guess you have to go here and then go to Brenda's link, to see the man cold in action.
http://caraandbrandon.blogspot.com/2008/02/guys-eyes-and-man-cold.html
Hmmmm so your saying that when we have kids he isn't going to drop everything, run me a bath, make me toast-applesauce-jello-soup and cater to my every need and desire like I do for him? Hmmmmm I thought for SURE it would get better when we have kids! lol. Gotta love our men what would we go without them right?? (or so I keep telling myself......)
Oh.....my.....God. I can't believe all the hating going on here! Listen, the reason why women get so bent out of shape about the way we act when we're sick is because they think they're tough for fighting through colds. What they don't realize is its, like, the hardest thing they have to do.
They don't understand that men are on such a completely higher level of toughness that we simply need some down time when we're sick to recharge and get back to being tough more quickly. The other day I fell off a ladder holding my DeWalt SDS Rotary Hammer. I broke my leg and the bone was actually sticking out. You know what I did? I rubbed a little dirt on the wound and got back on the ladder to finish my project. And then cooked meat on the grill. I would NOT have been able to do that had I not taken a nap with my blankie when I had the flu a couple of weeks earlier. We nap for you, ladies. Its all for you.
Men really are the biggest babies when they are sick. There is no way they could EVER give birth!
You tell em Matt! :)
Oh Lord, my husband never gets full on sick: he always has "a tinge". "I've just got a tinge of something". Then mopes around when I've forgotten to ask how he's feeling. Dude, we moms operate in 2 modes: Sick and Not Sick. I have no room for "tinge".
Hey now, I do mostly everything I normally do when I have a cold: laundry, kid watching, minor cleaning tasks.
One word of advice though. Don't offer to do things for us when we have a cold. We will take complete advantage of it.
Omg--Matt's comment is HILARIOUS!! Ok, so I have a confession. I'm such a baby when I get sick. I totally get the "man cold".
And have you noticed that when they 'really' get sick, they pretend its like . . . nothing? And you have to fight them to get them to a)lie down and b)go see the Dr?
They're all the same when they have a man cold. Age, location, none of that matters, they are all big babies.
I love this post because we've been experiencing this ourselves lately. I've been zombie-looking, half-dead sick for two weeks and still doing the usual Mommy stuff. Hubby got A SNIFFLE and the household, Earth and universe all came to a screeching halt.
In my next life I shall come back as a man. ;)
Does he ask you to bring him the remote because he's too sick to get up, walk the 3 feet across the room, pick it up, and fall back onto the couch? My challenge and I believe I'm failing is raising a son that will never catch a Man Cold!
CLASSIC post! My favorite. :)
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