When you're sick, do want to be babied?

[TheGoofster]

In my family there are four of us. I'll start with me. When I'm sick, I don't like to be babied. I prefer to be left alone. My wife might bring me soup and medicine, but that is about it. Just let me suffer quietly until I feel better.
My wife likes to be babied (which is fine, because she deserves it).
My son is a lot like me. He will be sick, but you won't know it. He keeps to himself.
My daughter is the worst. When she is sick she wants everyone to know it, and to serve her hand and foot.
Thankfully we seem to get sick at different times, but once in a while we all get sick together, and that becomes real interesting.

 

[Ginamarie]

No babying for me. I wouldn't mind if DH would bring me some water/juice, but otherwise I like to be left alone.

 

[sPaRkLeSpAz]

Hehe, I do somewhat.. I don't like being babied too much though. I kind of even like being left alone when I'm sick.

 

[Christine]

I like people to bring me food/drink etc but basically I want to be alone in my bedroom. What more do you do for someone who likes to be "babied?"

 

[AuntieM03]

I don't like to be babied, but I am not stoic. If I am sick you're gonna know it. Doesn't mean I want you to do anything, but I am not good at pretending I am okay when I am sick.

 

[hydster]

There are 5 of us in this house and not one of us likes to be babied. It would drive us all nuts if we had to be babied or the babier. UGH

 

[TheGoofster]

I like people to bring me food/drink etc but basically I want to be alone in my bedroom. What more do you do for someone who likes to be "babied?"

You check on them every 15 minutes or so. You bring them things to read, you fluff their pillows, you bring them movies to watch if their is nothing on TV, You constanly feel their forehead to see if it is any warmer than it was 15 minutes ago, You keep asking them if they need anything, you ask them if they need anything else at the store....

 

[Bob Slydell]

I'm not sick very often, but ironically, the last two or three times I can remember being sick in the last couple years were all when my family was out of town except for me, so I had no choice but to go it alone.

 

[Christine]

You check on them every 15 minutes or so. You bring them things to read, you fluff their pillows, you bring them movies to watch if their is nothing on TV, You constanly feel their forehead to see if it is any warmer than it was 15 minutes ago, You keep asking them if they need anything, you ask them if they need anything else at the store....

Oh my....

 

[Chilehead Too]

Don't baby me, but please do check on me every once in a while to make sure there is a pulse.

 

[Hercules10]

If it's a hot blonde in a tight little nurse's dress then she can baby me all she wants.

If not, then lemmee be alone with my germs.

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

Depends on what I am sick with.

My hubby stayed with me for 1 week in August (he was away on a long business field assignment) when I was extraordinarily sick. I did want to be babied b/c I was a complete invalid.

If I just have something minor--I just like my sleep and maybe some help with the kids...but I don't want to be babied or bugged.

 

[binny]

I am sick now and I want to be babied.

 

[binny]

You check on them every 15 minutes or so. You bring them things to read, you fluff their pillows, you bring them movies to watch if their is nothing on TV, You constanly feel their forehead to see if it is any warmer than it was 15 minutes ago, You keep asking them if they need anything, you ask them if they need anything else at the store....

oh well then no. I am achey and took a long bath last night. We have a huge jacuzzi tub in our master bath and it runs out of hot water. DH was nice enough to go and boil some water for me and add it to the tub. I thought that was really sweet but I do the same for him.

He will bring something hot to drink as well but thats about it.

 

[Fitswimmer]

I'm definately in the "leave me alone" camp. I had major abdominal surgery last year and my parents came up to help me out. Once I got out of the hospital, God help me, but I couldn't wait for them to go home. They hovered and all I wanted to do was sleep off the Oxy haze. Once they left, a friend of mine stopped by every day, got my mail, cleaned the cat box and took out the trash until I could do all that myself. That was all I needed, just the basics taken care of.

 

[miss missy]

I am you, my DD is your daughter... total opposites.

 

[Honu]

I'm presently dealing with significant health problems and feel like crap most of the time, but I have to really be incapacitated before I let someone baby me.

DH is Mr. Melodramatic when he has any ailment though. He moans, sneezes so violently it hurts my ears and barfs so loud that ALL of our neighbors know it. He demands to be waited on hand and foot and won't stay in the bedroom unless I promise to check on him every 20 minutes. I used to be a very nurturing person, he cured me of that though. I love him, but not the way he acts sometimes.

 

[supercarrie]

I don't want to be babied as such, but when I am ill, its often due to kidney stones (so mainly I am just in pain and want to go to sleep!) I have a chronic condition that causes them. However, I want my DBF to be home (after work) in case a trip to the ER is needed - and with my issue, I have needed to several times before. He has asked, "it is okay if I go out (drinking) after work?" (Its a common thing with the investment bankers...) And while I want him to have fun, I also know that when it gets that bad, no way can I drive myself to the hospital, and he certainly wouldn't be able to drunk! So be in the house, but leave me alone! He does a great job of bringing me lots of water, painkillers, heating pads, all kinds of things, but also knows when to just let me rest...its happened often enough!

 

[sunlver]

I am more in the "leave me alone" camp. BUT, with that said. I do want my husband to take over the kids and other household things that I cant do. When I am sick, I just want to lay in bed with the door shut, and let him deal with everything else.So no you dont have to baby me, but please take care of the kids. That is the biggest help in the world to me.

 

[Aidensmom]

I like to be left alone, but I do like it when DH takes over some of the stuff I would usually do like get my son's bath ready or take the dog out so that I don't have to get up.

My DH tries to make a production out of being sick. By TRIES I mean he starts moaning and groaning as soon as I get in earshot. However, being the mean wife that I am, I refuse to acknowledge him till he knocks the moaning off, as it annoys me to death.