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Are you a big baby when you're sick?

Hieronymus

02:54 / 16.11.03

So I'm sitting here fighting this nasty flu bug and I started wondering. Does anyone else here revert to all of seven years old when they get pretty ill?

I personally blame my mother who jumped to my every need when I was a munchkin. She even bought bowls that said "Get well" at the bottom when you were done with your soup.

Now Thera-Flu and chicken soup are my only friends. *insert violin*

Gary Lactus

10:53 / 16.11.03

Yes, I am abig baby when I am ill and have been for the past week. I have never felt the need to insert a violin, though.

Cheap. Easy. Cruel.

13:07 / 16.11.03

Not particularly. I generally just keep going until the illness stops me. Then I sleep 'till I am able to do more.

Princess

09:31 / 07.03.07

I have painful lungs and throat. Blocked nose. It is making me crabby with all the dogs and workmen in the house. Which isn't fair, but I'm finding it hard to shake the conviction that they've been sent just to thwart my plan of lying down to die peacefully.

Not the cats though. The cats I love.

Shiny: Well Over Thirty

10:14 / 07.03.07

I'm off work with a nasty-ish cold at the moment. It doesn't bother me too much though - I'm excaty ill enough to be legitimately off work, but not quite ill enough that I can't still quite like not being in work. In general though being ill is the only time I get stupidly macho - I tend to either pretend not to be ill at all, with the help of painkillers or alcohol as appropriate, or if I'm so ill I can't pretend I just hide myself away from other people until I get better. It's an immensely stupid strategy really - last time I was seriously ill was some sort of food poisoning, and I certainly unwell enough that the sane response would have been to seek medical attention.

Princess

10:49 / 07.03.07

My boyfriend only gets ill about once every two years, he dos th macho thing then as well.

He actually refused to let me in th house th first time it happened. He just hates people seeing him when h is ill.

All Acting Regiment

12:34 / 07.03.07

I actually made a kind of weird nest once, installing myself in a warm corner wrapped in seven blankets with only my besnotted nose and mouth peeping out for food and air, and constantly emitting a sort of low wail.

maneki neko

12:43 / 07.03.07

Being ill always scares me, as in shit, I am mortal. I tend to get really clingy and want lots of attention - hugs, phone calls, anime dvds... And preferably both cats on my bed.

bitchiekittie

12:51 / 07.03.07

I'm ok until it's something new and unfamiliar.

like I recently had my very first case of food poisoning - or maybe it was a vicious stomach bug, I'm not sure - and I was incredibly sick in a way I'd never been before. I laid on the floor and wept, and then called my mommy! supposedly I called her to take care of my daughter, because I was too ill to do so, and because I didn't want her near me in case I might be contagious. but I also wanted her to take care of me and throw some motherly sympathy my way, which she did with great skill!

w1rebaby

19:53 / 07.03.07

Growing up with a doctor mother and generally not what you'd call huggling parents, as well as living with lots of med students and doctors and other unsympathetic types, has led me to the conclusion that nobody gives a shit if I'm feeling bad and there's no benefit from my saying so. So no, I don't whinge when I'm ill. If I'm whinging that means there's something pretty fucking wrong with me.

Complaints come in the form "hm, I feel really dizzy, I think I'll go home and avoid looking at things for today" or "hm, I'm hallucinating, perhaps I really do have the flu" - evidence-based, outcome-driven. Given that the standard response to my saying that something hurt when I was a child was "where's the blood? if it's not bleeding, it's not serious" it hardly seems worth mentioning anything which isn't actually causing immediate hemorrhage.

Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero

01:11 / 08.03.07

Depends on how sick I am, I guess. Headaches are common, but controllable. Feeling nauseous I can handle without Mommy. Uncontrollable vomiting and dry heaves after taking mescaline? Hey, no sweat. Combine that with upset bowels? I'm not happy, but I'm coping. Realizing that I'll be tripping and probably nauseous for about another eighteen hours? I might pick up the phone and call a friend at that point.

Maybe. Tough as nails, me.

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