{"id":8885,"date":"2018-02-07T20:59:14","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T02:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=8885"},"modified":"2018-02-07T20:59:55","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T02:59:55","slug":"woman-sick-versus-man-sick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/woman-sick-versus-man-sick\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman Sick Versus Man Sick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In yesterday&#8217;s blog I shared how sick I was feeling, and today, unfortunately, I wasn&#8217;t feeling any better.\u00a0 But as much as I would have LOVED to stay in bed sleeping all day that just wasn&#8217;t an option as there were things I had no choice but to get done, sick or not. So as miserable as I felt today, I forced myself to get up long enough to at least take care of the things that were critical to get handled.\u00a0 Frankly,\u00a0I think every Mom out there is used to having to push through their bouts of illness because kids don&#8217;t offer their moms sick days off, and the laundry certainly isn&#8217;t about to wash itself.\u00a0 But I will say my Mom training certainly helped me during my years as the CEO of my company when there was far too much to do for me to take sick days off.<\/p>\n<p>In general women are just champions at pushing past illness to get their job done.\u00a0 Men&#8230;.well men not so much&#8230;That&#8217;s why as miserable as I felt today, the only thing that could have made me feel worse was coming home to hear my husband say that he is starting to feel sick too&#8230;.. NO-O-O-O-O-O!!!!\u00a0 Why do I have that reaction to the news my husband is feeling sick you ask???\u00a0 Of course only the men reading this would be asking me that question, because every woman reading it knows exactly why I&#8217;m reacting that way &#8211; Men are notoriously the worst when they are sick.\u00a0 So the only thing worse than being a sick woman is being a sick woman who has to take care of a sick man.\u00a0 This video is the perfect illustration of why:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QB5YKeGlqxU?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Oh wait&#8230;I hear someone calling me from the other room&#8230;\u00a0 Yep, it&#8217;s my husband&#8230;apparently he would like me to bring him some chicken soup with stars noodles&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>~Amy Rees Anderson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In yesterday&#8217;s blog I shared how sick I was feeling, and today, unfortunately, I wasn&#8217;t feeling any better.\u00a0 But as much as I would have LOVED to stay in bed sleeping all day that just wasn&#8217;t an option as there were things I had no choice but to get done, sick or not. 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