I spent last night taking my very embarrassed cousin to the doctor so that he could look at her bottom.
All she had was an infected boil (which had exploded because one of her friends slapped her hard on the bottom a few hours earlier!) It may have been self-resolving but she's going on a long plane trip on Sunday and is not looking forward to sitting for hours on her tender botty. It warranted a course of antibiotics.
It's funny. We had gone over to her place for dinner and she'd called me into the bedroom and said "this is really embarrassing but..." and pulled down her pants to get my opinion. lol
The worst part was that she didn't want to go to the doctor because she thought that she might be made to take her pants right off. The reason she didn't want to take her pants right off is that she had just started her period and she's a pad wearer. (I never understand why some girls are too freaked out by tampons). Now that's a sticky situation! The things girls have to worry about...
Anyway, I figure I've now grossed out all my male readers!
Speaking of men though, we've just spent this morning at hospital waiting with hubby's best friend who has some random pain in his abdomen. We'll go visit again later - they still don't know what it is. The thing is, it's hard to tell when men are really sick or if they're just being big pussies.
Seriously, they mope on about the slightest cold or sniffle, refuse to seek help when they really should, and then mope on about the worst case scenario. (In hubby's friend's case it was "Do you think my liver has exploded from drinking too much??) It's impossible to deal with them because they're either playing something down when they shouldn't in order to avoid seeing a doctor, or they're playing it up and making out like they're dying in order to gain sympathy. It's impossible for a woman to say anything to a man in that situation. We're either not giving them enough attention, or we're nagging them. Geez! The slightest cut and they milk the situation as much as they can.
Imagine if men had to go through childbirth?
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Wow. Infected boils, pads, and childbirth.
I must remember not to read blogs with breakfast anymore!
:-)
This is the second time today I've heard about infected boils. My friend told me that her husband had a boil on his perineum that was huge...and that burst while he was at work. The discharge was so stinky that one of his students noticed it. THEN, he had to have it operated on to clean it up.
No, men could not go through child birth. I'm 100% with you there.
I think you should enter this one into the "Blogger's Grossest Post"! Ewwwwwww!
I really should not get so grossed out, I am a nurse for goodness sake! This morning my son had a bleeding nose and I gagged though the entire thing.
I agree: men are wusses when it comes to pain and medical treatment. Loved this entry: truer words have seldom been written.
You know, I have little patience for the whole "poor baby is hurt" type of stuff with adult males when my daughter at 8 can suck it up and move on even when she has things like pneumonia. But then again, she's female.
I would enter the pads vs. tampons discussion, but I think the graphic details would be too much for some of your readers ;)
It's funny - my dad went through war and all kinds of stuff like it was nothing. But if he gets a cold, he'll just whine and moan like he's going to die. If men had to give birth to the babies, I think they would have invented a pain-free alternative to labor by now. You know, some people say kidney stones are worse than giving birth... I think those must be the people who got epidurals... I don't know if it could be any worse than feeling it all the way through (and getting no novacaine stitches after!), unless you were lucky enough to have a short labor or something. Oh well - hope your cuz and the friend are all better now!
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