Caring for a Sick Missus

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@DWDavis (25797)

United States

February 8, 2017 6:43pm CST

The office where my wife works is sharing a head cold. I know. This is not the sort of thing one usually likes to share at work. My wife insists her boss brought it in and spread it around at the staff meeting last week. Now she, and about 4 other people at the office, have the same head cold. In a very uncharacteristic move, she left work just past noon and came home to nurse her cold. I came home intent on taking care of her when I got done at school. Instead, she went up to bed and took a nap. I did cook her dinner tonight, as I did last night. Now she has gone up to try and get a good night's sleep. Having had my share of colds already this year, courtesy of my students, I am hopeful I will not catch this particular strain she has. I am still trying to get over the cough from my last bout. Do colds tend to make the circuit where you work?

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@katsmeow1213 (28716)

• United States

9 Feb 17

I'm usually good at fighting things off. I've never called in due to being sick, and I've never left early just for not feeling well. I have a great immune system. That being said, Sunday I got a little stomach bug and came really close to calling in Monday as I still felt off.. but I stuck it out anyway. Last night my head started to hurt, and my friend was saying how she had a head cold.. now this morning my head is hurting still and I've been sneezing a lot..

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@katsmeow1213 (28716)

• United States

9 Feb 17

@DWDavis I had the headache all day.. I am starting to feel a little worse now.. Just one more day to get through and then I have the weekend to relax.

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@DWDavis (25797)

• United States

10 Feb 17

@katsmeow1213 I hope tomorrow is an easy day for you.

@DWDavis (25797)

• United States

9 Feb 17

Headache and sneezing is how my wife's current cold started. I hope you don't come down with anything like she has.

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@Happy2BeMe (99353)

• Canada

9 Feb 17

It has been going around work but so far I have managed to avoid it. I am hoping it will stay that way. Hope your wife feels better soon.

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@DWDavis (25797)

• United States

9 Feb 17

Thanks. I hope you continue to avoid catching the bug.

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@DWDavis (25797)

• United States

10 Feb 17

@Happy2BeMe She seemed a little better once she got home and had a chance to relax and eat the supper I made. She's already gone off to bed, so I hope with another good night's sleep she'll be much better tomorrow.

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@Happy2BeMe (99353)

• Canada

10 Feb 17

@DWDavis thanks..me too. Is she feeling any better?

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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)

• United States

9 Feb 17

I work third shift, and so am only exposed to so many people. I've had co workers come in with their colds but they haven't passed it on to me. I'm pretty immune to these things though. Hopefully it won't make another round around her office before it's done... .and hopefully you won't be bringing it to class with you.

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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)

• United States

9 Feb 17

@DWDavis Yikes! This actually makes me think of a teacher I had back when I was in school. I forget which year, but she had a can of lysol she would spray the door knob down with and we'd have to clean our desk surfaces with it as well.

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@DWDavis (25797)

• United States

9 Feb 17

@ScribbledAdNauseum I have Lysol wipes my students use to clean the desks every morning. I don't know if it helps so much with the germs, but it does help keep the desks clean.

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@DWDavis (25797)

• United States

9 Feb 17

My kids bring in enough germs that even if I did bring something in their germs would probably eat it for lunch.

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@jstory07 (148701)

• Roseburg, Oregon

9 Feb 17

They used to make the rounds when I worked but I never got sick from them.

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@DWDavis (25797)

• United States

9 Feb 17

You were very lucky. I seem to avoid the first of the school year crud that tends to go around, but when we go back in session after Winter Break I catch it all.

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@GardenGerty (169406)

• United States

9 Feb 17

@DWDavis That is because people have traveled for the holidays and brought back foreign viruses, foreign to your area, that is.

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@DWDavis (25797)

• United States

9 Feb 17

@GardenGerty That always concerns me, especially when so many of our Hispanic kids travel to Mexico over the holiday.

@PatZAnthony (14749)

• Charlotte, North Carolina

9 Feb 17

No, but it seems some say this happens. If we can spread colds, flu, etc., how do those working in hospitals stay well? Hmm-this is a question some can't answer. For whatever reason, we do not get colds, the flu, etc. in our household.

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@GardenGerty (169406)

• United States

9 Feb 17

@DWDavis I think I am sick only because I went two years with very minimal exposure to anyone. I am making up for it now that I have gone back to work.

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@DWDavis (25797)

• United States

9 Feb 17

@GardenGerty Yes, I imagine your immunities have to build themselves back up.

@DWDavis (25797)

• United States

9 Feb 17

You are very lucky. I've often wondered how people in hospitals keep from catching every little thing. Perhaps being around so much, they develop stronger immunities.

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@LadyDuck (502148)

• Italy

9 Feb 17

I am also still trying to get over the cough I got at the beginning of January, it has been a bad flu this year.

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@DWDavis (25797)

• United States

9 Feb 17

One of my co-workers came down with the flu and it sent her blood pressure on a roller coaster ride. She's missed two weeks of work because of it.

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@LadyDuck (502148)

• Italy

10 Feb 17

@DWDavis I am well now, but still very tired, I feel tired every little thing I do.

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@GardenGerty (169406)

• United States

9 Feb 17

You know we are very generously sharing with one another, I work in a school myself. Colds, yes, stomach or norovirus, yes, strep, the flu, yes, yes. I am lucky, for me it has only been colds, so far.

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@DWDavis (25797)

• United States

9 Feb 17

We had a stomach virus make the rounds a couple times this year but (knock on wood) I haven't been hit by that yet.

@carebear29 (32002)

• Wausau, Wisconsin

9 Feb 17

hope she gets better. prayers

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@DWDavis (25797)

• United States

9 Feb 17

Thanks.

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@hostessman (11871)

• Tucson, Arizona

9 Feb 17

If the boss started the cold you can't complain after all he is the BOSS

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@DWDavis (25797)

• United States

9 Feb 17

My missus won't complain to him. She complains to me about him. But he's a good boss, and she doesn't often have much to complain about.

@Marilynda1225 (91013)

• United States

9 Feb 17

It's almost impossible not to catch a cold when you are around others who are battling one. It was nice that you are taking care of your wife. So what did you make for dinner?

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@DWDavis (25797)

• United States

9 Feb 17

I heated up a chicken pot pie. She wasn't feeling like she wanted much. I told her what we had that would be easy to fix and a smallish serving. She picked the pot pie.

@DianneN (254949)

• United States

9 Feb 17

They used to until I began washing my hands constantly and disinfecting my reading table every day. Hope your wife has a speedy recovery.

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@DWDavis (25797)

• United States

9 Feb 17

Thanks. I will be buying another big pack of sanitizing wipes this weekend.

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@asfarasiknow (3340)

• Bournemouth, England

9 Feb 17

I used to do a part-time weekend job to supplement my weekday self employment and used to dread catching something that would affect my main work. Phones were not cleaned regularly (if at all) and the pay was so low that people would say they could not afford to take time off when sick.

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@DWDavis (25797)

• United States

9 Feb 17

I don't like taking time off from school because the rigmarole we have to go through to find our own sub and get lesson plans ready for them usually means we have to know we're going to be sick long before we get sick.

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@JudyEv (381739)

• Rockingham, Australia

9 Feb 17

We are very lucky as we don't have a lot of contact with groups of people. But if one of us gets a cold the other often does too.

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@DWDavis (25797)

• United States

9 Feb 17

My wife and I tried so hard to make sure she didn't catch one of the colds I brought home from school, and then she goes and catches one from her boss at work. Now I'm hoping I don't catch hers.

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@JudyEv (381739)

• Rockingham, Australia

9 Feb 17

@DWDavis I hope the flu doesn't yo-yo back and worth all winter.

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@DesirousDreamer (34776)

• Peoria, Arizona

9 Feb 17

Aww poor thing. At least you are trying to help her out. I got sick a lot of school, mostly because of my poor immune system.

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@DWDavis (25797)

• United States

9 Feb 17

One of my colleagues has to wear a mask during cold and flu season because her immune system is weak, and she is anemic.

@DesirousDreamer (34776)

• Peoria, Arizona

9 Feb 17

@DWDavis That is rough. In Japan that is just called respect haha People wear masks when they are sick so they do not get anyone else sick.

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@much2say (57760)

• Los Angeles, California

9 Feb 17

I'm a stay at home mom . . . but I know what it's like to have everyone else bring home stuff we don't want. Hubby will sometimes bring home whatever is going around his office . . . and the kids will bring home whatever's been going around in class/school. Then it will circulate at home, and everyone gets to "share" under the same roof

. It's almost inevitable. Hope your wife feels better and that you do do (I don't know why coughs linger for so long these days).

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@allknowing (153544)

• India

9 Feb 17

I read many posts here about people getting sick. The weather must be doing that. You are a great husband I know.

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@DWDavis (25797)

• United States

9 Feb 17

Thank you. You are correct about our weather. We go from freezing to spring like and then back in the course of a week.

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@Beatburn (4286)

• Philippines

9 Feb 17

When colds visit our household, it does the rounds. Everyone on the family gets it.

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@just4him (323168)

• Green Bay, Wisconsin

9 Feb 17

I'm glad I no longer work because they always did. I hope your wife feels better soon, and you get over that lingering cough.

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@Daljinder (23193)

• Bangalore, India

9 Feb 17

Yes they do and it's usually my youngest brother who starts it. He brings the cold and infect us one by one lol

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@Ronrybs (21504)

• London, England

9 Feb 17

When I worked in an office, there were always colds going around. I usually managed to catch one or three!

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