The time has come for a rant about my awful husband.
So, he had COVID a couple of weeks ago and was supremely melodramatic about it. I've never seen a bigger prima donna performance before in my life. You might've thought he was in the palliative stage of a terminal illness. I am not exaggerating.
Now, yall know I am deeply compassionate and caring by nature, and I am a veterinary technician (in Australia it's called a vet nurse). So yes, I am a nurse, for animals, sure, but I am a NURSE. Taking care of sick patients is what I do for a living, and I've been doing it for over 18 years.
So naturally I took care of him, it is second nature to me, I do it automatically without even thinking. Around the clock I would check in on him, offer him more water, check him for fever and pain, offer more tylenol and ibuprofen, check the temperature of the room, turn the heater up or down as required, refill the humidifier as required, make sure he ate something every 6 hours, make sure he showered once a day. That's what wives do. In sickness and in health.
On the 4th day of this, he emerged from his bedroom and I took the opportunity to ask him if he felt okay to look after our son for an hour while I went for an acupressure massage as my neck and shoulder nerves were pinching (this is something I need done approximately once a month, it is NOT for pleasure, it is so that I can function). He said yes that's fine, so I went. If any of you have read my "Abusive husband" thread in SLR you will know that I returned from said massage to find my son alone on the floor in front of the TV next to our 2 pit bulls and my husband had gone back to bed
INEXCUSABLE
Then the NEXT morning, so the 5th day of his melodramatic man-flu, presuming he was finally feeling at least a little bit better, I took my son in to my husband's bedroom and asked him if he could do his morning feed cos I hardly slept that night, he said "not really but okay". I asked why not, he said "cos I feel like shit haven't you got that through your skull by now?".
What the ACTUAL FUCK is your FUCKING PROBLEM????????
But that is not the purpose of this rant.
A week later our social worker came for a home visit to check in on how we're going. Lol. As usual I pasted a smile on my face and played good wifey, something I have become quite good at now. My husband on the other hand told her how he had covid and how
I did not look after him at all, and how
I kept trying to palm off our son to him each morning that he was sick
just so that I could sleep in, and that
I took myself off to get a massage when he was too sick to get out of bed. He then said
"If the tables were turned and you had covid, I would wait on you hand and foot, and take care of our son to make sure you could get enough rest".
HA!
Lo and behold I now have covid. My son also has covid. Tested positive 2 days ago.
Would anyone like to guess if my husband has offered to care for either me or my son? Anyone? Anyone at all??
If any of you have answered NO, you are CORRECT!!!!!!


In FACT, on Sunday night, the day I tested positive (keep in mind I was already symptomatic and feeling like shit since Thursday) he took it upon himself to GO TO HIS MATES HOUSE to "GET OUT OF MY HAIR" so that I COULD REST.
WHAT THE FUCK DOES THAT EVEN MEAN?
Anyway, yada yada yada bullshit bullshit, fast forward to last night, my son's temperature spiked to nearly 100 degrees and he was
really unwell.
**TBC, gotta tend to my son
Cont'...
So yes, last night my son got a fever and was very unwell. I'm a new mum and this is the first time he's proper sick so I was very very anxious. I checked all his vitals, checked him for any rashes, checked his extremities for cyanosis, checked him for laboured breathing, basically did my nursing thang. My husband told me to stop it because I was "overthinking it". I called the 24-hour nurse's hotline to lodge a case (just in case I had to take him to hospital) and ask for advice re: bed clothing and room temperature for a fever. The nurse was fantastic and really eased my anxiety. However she did say that given the circumstances she advised me to call a doctor immediately for further advice. She gave me some late night on-call doctors to call.
My husband's opinion?? "Let's just go to bed and see how he goes"
Just see how he goes? SEE HOW HE GOES???? With covid? Just wait and see how he goes?! Are you
actually a psychopath????
My response? "This is my son. That is not good enough. There is nothing you can say or do that will convince me to not call the doctor"
He then said "Alright fine, geeeez, no need for the attitude, why don't you just tell me to shut up instead of giving me a lecture".
I looked him dead in the eyes and calmly but sternly said
"Shut. Up.".
He then stormed off to bed.
LOL fucking good. He was doing nothing except standing there with his dick in his hand being a nuisance anyway, he was better off out of the way anyway.
Then went back to tending to my son and called the doctor.
My son and I had a rather fitful night, we both had a fever and a yucky cough, I couldn't sleep because every time my son coughed it sounded like he was choking (he has laryngomalacia and an extremely rare heart defect so I am hypervigilant with his breathing) so I had to shine my phone torch on him to check his breathing and colour. But his temperature has come down this morning and he's doing well. What a fucking little legend ❤
Now the fun part. After pretty much no sleep, having a fever for nearly 3 days, chest pain, painful cough, piercing headache, just generally feeling bleghh, I got up with my son this morning at 7am, did my nursing things, then did my usual mother things, then we napped together on the couch (which I love doing ❤). All the while my stupid lazy-ass selfish cunt of a husband slept in until
10am.
What happened to "if the tables were turned"?! What happened to "I'd wait on her hand and foot"?! What happened to taking care of our son so that I could rest?


*edit* OMFG I forgot to say one of the most disgustingly horrible parts!!!!!
On Sunday night when I went to bed I was having trouble breathing, I could feel my throat constricting ever so slightly. I have asthma so this is a concern. AND the first time I had covid back in March 2020 I was actually admitted to hospital one night because I couldn't breathe. My husband knows this.
I went back out to the loungeroom where my husband was nonchalantly scrolling through his phone as usual, and I said "umm I having trouble breathing and I'm a bit worried cos I have asthma and when I had covid the first time I went to hospital cos I couldn't breathe. So could you please leave your bedroom door open tonight just in case Jax or I need your help during the night?", his response was, without looking up from his phone (and I quote):
"Yeah whatever"