[Margaret Pilkington]

Yes Dotti, but most men will tell you they have flu...when what they really have is a head cold.
Flu is totally different. If you really do have flu you cannot get out of your bed.
We have both had a very heavy cold, but he will insist on telling everyone we have had 'flu'.

He has needed to be ministered unto....like his arms are painted on and he can't get his own cough mixture/honey and lemon/paracetamol/ wheatie bag.
He has moaned and groaned and generally made heavy weather of a winter irritation.
I have told him that just because he has a pain doesn't give him licence to BE a pain.(he says I must have been a lousy nurse. I told him that sympathy and compassion are not endless)