nemski jr. has been down and out with the flu for six days and it looks like he’ll easily reach the eight-day mark by Friday. As the fever has been wearing off slightly, the wife has been trying to get the boy to do some school reading, however she ran into some problems:
[His] fever is back up to 102. He finished one chapter. It took him an hour or so between the moans and groans. Such a male.
I shot back that he is being such a big baby, because his mother coddles him too much when he is sick. The wife said it is a chromosome thing.
For full disclosure, I’ll admit it: I’m a big baby when I get sick. But a lot of men are. For example, I was texting with libergeek the other day and he said, “Last year I had the flu and I almost died.” I replied, “I had the flu three years ago and actually died.”
So, my question to you: Is it our mother’s fault that men are big babies when we are sick or is it genetic?
And, no, that’s not my boy in the picture above.