Nov 27
So the RagingPartner has taken ill, and we’ll be going to the doctor after while. It’s quite clearly the flu, and let’s just say that the RP isn’t exactly the model patient.
Let me ask, do you all have loved ones that disagree with their diagnosis based on what they want it to be or “what they’ve had before”? Or when you give them a suggestion on a kind of medicine, they know better because.. well they don’t give a reason many times.
Having a love one that’s sick is terrible – the worry, the stress. Then we have the terrible part people refuse to talk about – the attitude.
Does anyone else have loved ones who are bad patients?
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November 27th, 2009 at 12:05 pm
Ribeye, most women will tell you that straight men are the worst patients, but it sounds like you have your hands full too. My husband–who I love dearly–makes me absolutely fucking crazy when he’s sick. He gets sort of bipolar. He checks his temp every thirty minutes, whines and obsesses about his symptoms. And at the same time, he refuses to go to the doctor and acts like his manhood will fall off if I suggest he take a Tylenol. Sheesh.
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Pamela Reply:
November 27th, 2009 at 6:38 pm
Oh Mary, you are sooo right. Men are the worst. However my mom’s no prize when she’s sick either.
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November 28th, 2009 at 6:00 am
My wife is a RN…her arm could be falling off before she went to a doctor. Our daughter who will be a P.A. in another year is much the same way.
Me?
I’m a pussy.
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November 29th, 2009 at 1:25 am
My husband used to be like that, but he has since learned the error of his ways…the hard way. He has Type 2 diabetes, but wasn’t listening to the doctor when it came to controlling it, so it got worse. He was told he needed to start taking insulin.
He HATES needles, is the world’s biggest baby about them. Having to stick himself with them every day was not easy, but it had to be done. So I used to act like his mommy and make sure he did it on schedule.
He didn’t like this, and he gave me a lot of shit about it, telling me to back off, he could take care of himself. So I backed off, I was afraid that if I didn’t, he’d stop taking it to spite me.
Then, in March 2009, he got really sick. He was seriously dehydrated, not even water would stay down. He always felt the need to throw up, although nothing was coming out.
I ended up taking him to the ER, he was admitted to the hospital and was diagnosed with diabetic ketoacidosis. The cause? Not taking his insulin! If we had waited much longer to go to the ER, he could have died.
So now he has learned his lesson, does his needles every day, and no longer gets pissed off at me when I ask if he did it or not. Some things, you just can’t fool around with, and diabetes is one of them.
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