Anyone else have a dh like this?

[luvwinnie]

He tells me NOW to make a dr's appt for him because he's had pressure in his head for YEARS and it's worse now.

 

[Serena]

I hear ya.

 

[JAP]

Sometimes they just do not know how to take care of themselves. DH finally is going to a Chiropractor.

 

[RitaZ.]

Yes and it took an asthma attack that nearly killed him to change his ways.

 

[tc]

He constantly tells me to go to the Dr., but he lives with pain for years before getting anything done. He pushes my yearly exams, but hasn't had a physical for years. Men, love em, but wish they'd take care of themselves better.

 

[PRINCESS Ariel34]

OMG my husband tore his Achilles Tendon playing basketball last year and for 4.5 months he was at HOMEEEEEEe with a cast on I had to force him to go to the emergency room where they had to do emergency surgery It was just that bad. The doc told him not to walk and sure enough he wanted to hop to the store and get some cigarettes drove me up the freakin wall. He even tried to walk down the stairs with his crutches There were times I wanted to beat him with the crutches. Honey I need this Honey I need that UGHHHHHHHH I told him if he touch a basketball again I am outta here Don't know where I'll go but anywhere but here if that were to happen again. I would not wish that on my worst enemy and thats his mother I bought him some golf clubs at least that is somewhat safe. I told him if he get's bonged on the head with a ball it might correct something Every time I took him into the DOC's office the Nurses would tell me "Oh I feel so sorry for you"

 

[gemmie214]

My DH could be at deaths door and insist he had a touch of the flu I could have a sniffle and he tells me I should see a doctor Gotta love them

 

[Princess_Aurora]

Well, at least he's going to the dr! My DH REFUSES to have a physical. He also makes sure I'm always going to the dr. Anytime I get sick or anything he always wants me to go but when he gets sick (which is rare anyway) he won't go. I've been really worried about him here lately since he's been under a lot of stress and you hear those horrible stories about young guys having massive heart attacks because they were so stressed and I don't want that happening to him. You know what he said to me when I told him that though? He said, "Oh well. If I die, I die."

One of these days I think I'm just going to trick him into seeing the dr though. I've already planned it out too. I'll make an appointment for the both of us and have him take me and then once he's there and has an appointment he can't run away

 

[Kermit]

It took me forever to get DH to go to the doctor about his allergies. I can kind of understand why he didn't do anything about them when he was young, since the only thing they could do was shots, and those are a pain, but he didn't want to have to take a non-drowsy antihistimine for the rest of his life. I finally convinced him that he was missing too much work in the spring and the fall and that possibly getting asthma was much worse than the side effects of an antihistimine.

Now if only I could get him to take his nasal spray when his allergies are really bad. He says that he just can't stand squirting stuff up his nose, but I can't stand him coming home from work and falling asleep because his body is exhausted from just trying to keep him healthy.

 

[ckr]

Like you can't call the Dr yourself?!?! But you gotta love 'em, eh? (Cuz they DO take good care of US even if they forget to take care of themselves...)

On a serious note, however. We have a dear friend who is like this. Good old country boy. Strong as a horse and stubborn as a mule. Healthy and Active. At least he was. He is now in his mid-50s and dying of prostrate cancer. By the time he went to the Dr it was too late. It is heartbreaking.....

Ladies, schedule YOUR yearly and HIS yearly on the same date (maybe your anniversary?) and promise/plan something special that evening as a reward to YOUR FUTURE TOGETHER for keeping those appts. As we watch our strong friend wither away to skin and bones with hair falling out by the handfuls and in so much pain he can barely be out of bed for more than an hour or two a day, we wish he had been diagnosed sooner. It could've been different. Instead, now his wife will have to spend their anniversaries alone.....

Off my soapbox now. Hope it helps, though....

 

[Pin Wizard]

DH never told me when had pressure in his chest with major heartburn. He told his boss because he was at work at the time and wanted the gross pink stuff from the shelf to take. I'm amazed that these symptoms didn't make a bell go off in anyone's head to call 911! She told me about it after it was too late.

 

[catsrule]

yes

 

[PRINCESS Ariel34]

DH never told me when had pressure in his chest with major heartburn

PinWizzard tuesday night I got a phone call about 2:15am in the morning. My husband was rushed to the hospital with chest pains. We were there until 8:00am that morning. The gave him a nitro shot patch and something else before I got there. He is at the doctors office having a stress test done now. I wanted to go soo bad but I have a parent teacher conference with my son's teacher I thank God they made him get into the ambulance and not let him drive himself like he wanted to He quit smoking about 6 months ago and thats another thing