Today we have an outbreak of manbola. Streaming cold, coughing, sneezing, sore throat …. just didn’t want to get out of bed. I have to admit I am a …….
The dog walk must have been some sight. Gloves, 2 T-shirt’s, Fleece, Jumper, body warmer, waterproof and woolly hat. And that was just the dog.
It’s one of the big downsides of being a single parent. Whatever the relative severity of the manbola – you don’t have the option to not get out of bed or just sit in a chair with a hot water bottle. No one to share the workload. So you just have to get on with your jobs while croaking out conversations with our son. Powered by hot ginger drinks and tea. It’s days like this you want to drop your caffeine ban.
It also gives you plenty of worries. It emphasises that many single parents (and a number of parenting couples) often operate without having an option b in place. If something serious happens to a parent(s) what happens to the kids. It’s a sobering thought.
I am an amateur at these things. So many parents have had much worse situations to deal with for so many more years. I have so so much respect and admiration to you heroes. So we battle on. In the scheme of things manbola isn’t that bad really.
AND one definite plus of manbola is that you just can’t smell the cat litter when you change it….
Manbola – I’m definitely not telling my SO about that one!
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Blessings and Get well soon. Been bad in USA also.:)
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Thank you
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:))
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Feel better!!
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Lots of people are feeling worse than me. But thank you.
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Feel better soon!
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Colds don’t last long just a bit annoying. Thanks
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This is true.
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🙏
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Hope you are better soon!
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I’m ok thanks just in sneezing mood now.
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Health coming your way 🙏
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Thank you. 3pts helps as well….
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Love your humor
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Thank you so much.
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Oh I hope that you get better soon. Healing thoughts and prayers
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Thank you and hope the foot is ok.
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Yes, getting better every day. The chocolates are helping.😃
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That’s good news.
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Yes! ☺️
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Sending Angel Hugs and the best of get well soon vibes! ✨😇💞🤗✨
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Thank you. It’s just a cold so it’s not that bad really.
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I’m sorry I can’t help you bear this weight. But for what it’s worth, your son’s old enough now to at least do some things himself. Heaven help me when the boys think they can use the stove to cook supper for themselves…
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You never know… Just being there really helps.
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It does. Hugs from Wisconsin, just for you. xxxxx
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Thank you so much. Sending you hugs back from Yorkshire. xxxxx
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“And that was just the dog” made me smile! 🙂
Waitaminniiiiit… i’m supposed to be helping cheer YOU up! 😉
CHEER UP YOU WUSS!!
Seriously tho’… keep warm and stay hydrated, look after yourself as best you can and check with the chemist to see what the latest miracle cure is to keep you functioning when you can’t dive into bed like any sane person would do.
Listen to Mother! 😉
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Apparently a glass of sherry is the answer. My parents would get me to gargle of a tiny bit of whiskey and a sugar cube. It was the same cure for toothache….
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… And a stubbed toe, and a grazed knee, and mumps, and hiccups, and….. 😉
(I still recommend a trip to the chemist!)
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Everything…..
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Poor guy! I agree with you on the sickness thing. I feel so poor and picked on, then realize I’m insanely lucky to have someone else go to work AND who has a job that he can take time off from if I fall down an elevator shaft or something.
I don’t think the laundry would ever get done, but at least he’s there.
I hope you get well soon!
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Not sure the laundry has been correctly done in 2 years. Still working on this strange concept of colours, temperatures and separating. So I know what you mean. Thank you.
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Hope you get beter soon!
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Thank you. Hope this week goes ok for you.
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Thank you very much.
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🙏
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Keep smiling. Hope you feel better soon.
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It’s only manbola…..
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pills, flu drinks, tissues and whatever else you need by proxy……………. 🙂
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Apparently watching some programmes having the money to buy a nanny works……
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Dammit! Get well soon
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Thank you. Hope you are ok, Sir.
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Going to Doc’s today. Still under par – as to be expected
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Look after yourself. We need our daily fix of you.
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🙂
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Yes, I remember crawling out of bed muttering ‘F*** F*** F*** all the way to the kitchen to prepare breakfast and get the little darlings off to school before collapsing in a self-pitying heap. Oh, what fun it was.
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Character building.
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Something like that.
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🙏
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I hope you feel better soon!
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Thank you
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Hope you feel better soon!
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Thank you, hope the gym is going well.
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I did that for years after my divorce. It’s hard to not be able to get up and cook for your kids. Luckily my son could make a mean sammich as long as I had peanut butter and jelly….
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You should get your son to look after you today, see how that works out… 😉
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I could try might end up going hungry or living off pizzas
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Mmmm pizza! 😋😉
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Get well soon x
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Thank you 🙏
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Feel better soon!
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Thank you
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The advantages of manbola – not smelling cat litter – there is positive thinking for you.
Manbola on your own must be tedious.
But it’s days like these that coffee was invented for, so it’s ok to break the caffeine ban temporarily.
Lots of fluids whatever you do…and as much rest as possible – which might not be much in your case.
Get well soon 🙂
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Thank you so much. You have convinced me, proper coffee going on. I dread to think how many hot gingers I have had today.
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Thank you
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Sounds like my fem-fluenza back in January. Awful stuff. I was on another planet.
You feeling better?
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Still sneezing but ok. Annoying thing is that you think you have stopped coughing then you try to lie down….
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Yeah. The lung clearing thing. Takes a while…
Rest.
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Must sound like a beached whale.
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Heh. I don’t know. I’ve never heard a whale cough. LOL!
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Surprised you can’t hear me
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LMAO!
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Thank you
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I don’t mean to laugh at your misery, but the way you described everything gave me a good chuckle. In all seriousness, I hope you are feeling better now.
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Thank you. I hope you are ok.
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Thank you, too. I’m hanging in there.
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Good.
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It’s so hard when the little ones are sick and you have to handle it alone, then you get sick and it’s a whole different level ❤️ hope you are feeling better!
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Yes moved on to the next cold now. It goes with living in Yorkshire. X
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