Have you ever called your husband home from work?
By katsmeow1213
@katsmeow1213 (28716)
United States
March 14, 2009 1:13pm CST
Have you ever had to call your husband at work to tell him you need him home early?
I had to yesterday.
I've been having a health issue for a little while now (I can't explain what it is, it's personal). I did see a doctor for it on Thursday... but the issue is extremely painful and makes most daily chores difficult. Well my doctor misdiagnosed it on Thursday, and gave me medication for what she thought was going on. The issue got worse Thursday night, and I was unable to get any sleep because of the pain. I was up until about 3am, I took a bunch of pain pills that weren't helping, and a few other medications to treat what the doctor told me I had, which made the problem worse. Thanks to the pain pills I was finally able to sleep around 4am, but then had to be up around 7 for the kids.
Well, due to the pain I was in, and the lack of sleep, I was not fit to be handling the kids yesterday. Once they got home from school and started making noise and being their typical selves, I seemed to turn into a screaming banshee. I was yelling at them to be quiet because I just couldn't handle the stress and noise level.
My husband called me around 6pm just to check up on things, and the moment I answered I asked him to please come home. At that point I was lying in bed, unable to move, and desperatly wanted more pain pills but couldn't leave the bed.
He came home, gave me some pain pills, and even went to the drug store to buy me some epsom salts hoping that bathing in that would help relieve my pain, which it didn't. At this point he called my doctor and told them they misdiagnosed me. The doctor then realized what was going on, and called in the proper prescription for me, which my husband went to pick up, and also brought me home some ice cream and a few movies.
I'm still in pain right now, although it's not quite as bad as it was. It's going to take a couple days for the medicine to clear the problem completely. Unfortunatly my husband did have to go to work today, but I'm very thankful he was able to come home last night to help me out, and even more thankful for all he went through to try to help me feel better!
Have you ever had to call your spouse home from work to help you cope with pain or an illness?
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12 responses
@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
16 Mar 09
Oh, you poor baby. If I was near you then I would take the children off your hands after school so that you could get some rest (and take the youngest in the day of course). I guess that I was lucky as my husband was on the farm and could check on me frequently and I had someone to help me with the babies so I could get into bed for a few hours if I needed to. I do hope that you are now feeling better. God bless
@katsmeow1213 (28716)
• United States
16 Mar 09
I try to remind myself that I am very blessed. My husband does work very long hours, but at least he has a job, and at least he is capable of leaving when I truly, desperatly need him to, and he loves me enough to do that. Some other men would tell me to just deal with it, but not my guy.
@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
16 Mar 09
I always just love it when you praise your husband publicly. Sometimes it is hard for them to work so hard, trying to keep it all together and just worrying about keeping htat job. I am happy that you both appreciate each other
@okkidokitokki (1736)
• United States
14 Mar 09
I am thankful that I have not had to call my husband because when he goes to work it means he is driving to a far off place that varies and so it would not do me any good.
I have had to call my mom though. I hurt my knee a few years back and asked her to come to my house. She lives 8 hours away, but does not work and so she is able to do stuff like that. My knee was so bad that I couldn't go to the bathroom without help standing back up. She stayed with my husband and I for a month until I was back in shape.
I am sorry you are having health problems, I hope that the meds help you quickly.
@katsmeow1213 (28716)
• United States
14 Mar 09
I do not have anyone who can help me other than my husband, no friends and no family. If I did have someone to call, I'd call them first most of the time. I don't like having to ask my husband to leave work.
@okkidokitokki (1736)
• United States
14 Mar 09
I think that it is great that he came home. It is a loss of money but there are more important things in life.
I am sure that your husband was more concerned with your health than leaving work. For that you are blessed
@sunshine4 (8703)
• United States
15 Mar 09
Sorry to hear about your pain. I hope that it has been diagnosed properly by now.
Yes, I have called my husband home from work before.
I did this when my first child was to be born and you know what he said? He said that I should be in labor for a long time, so he will be home at 5:30!!! He then told someone he worked with and they made him come home. Good thing, or I would have had to kill him!
The next time I called him home was when I had a cyst and it burst. I didn't have any idea what it was, but I had passed out while babysitting and my oldest son at the time was only 5. He was really responsible, got the phone and called my husband for me. He came home immediately. Good thing because I ended up in the hospital having emergency surgery.
@katsmeow1213 (28716)
• United States
15 Mar 09
My mom did the same thing when I had my first child. I was 17 at the time... actually I went into labor on my 17th birthday. I still lived at home of course, and the father had already been long gone and not in the picture. All night my mother was trying to convince me it was false labor, but I finally had enough and went to the hospital. They admitted me of course. Then I called my mother and told her I was 5 cms. She phoned my best friend, who came to the hospital to be with me, but my mother would not come until she got my younger siblings off to school. My son was born at 8:06 am, my mother didn't arrive at the hospital until 8:30am.
@sudalunts (5523)
• United States
14 Mar 09
My husband was a salesman, and one day, I was upset because my father was in the hospital and I wanted to go there to be with him. My husband called home like he usually does and could tell in my voice that something was wrong. He still had two more appointments to go to, but he said that he was on his way home to take me to the hospital, and the appointments would have to wait.
It is good that your husband came home and helped you out and tried to make you feel better. My husband would have done the same thing. Hope you are feeling better soon.
@TessWhite (3146)
• United States
14 Mar 09
I'm sorry you have been so sick. What you are describing sounds very much like what I'm going thru right now. I've been dealing with pain for about 3 weeks now, and I'm on my second course of medication. I've been pretty miserable, which sounds like your recent illness too.
I've had to ask my guy to call in and take time off work when I had my accident three years ago. Since I had emergency surgery and was on bedrest I had to have someone at home to help me. Even today I had to have him go to the pharmacy and pick up my new prescription for my latest illness.
I hope your meds help and that you feel better soon.
@katsmeow1213 (28716)
• United States
14 Mar 09
I can't imagine this lasting for 3 weeks, although it could. It should go away now that I've started the meds. Problem I'm facing now is that the pain meds I've been taking are making me nausious! I can't stay out of bed for more than 20 minutes without feeling ill.
@Jae2619 (1483)
• United States
14 Mar 09
I have had to call my husband home from work many times. Sometimes it was that the kids were really sick and needed to be taken to the ER and for that I can't do alone because of policy. Other times it was because when I was pregnant, I had rough with both of my children, and my last one I had contractions all the time and was always scared it was time to go. It's been a while since I have to call him home and hopefully I won't have to anytime soon, but I do it. Sometimes, it can't be helped.
Hope that you get to feeling better.
@katsmeow1213 (28716)
• United States
14 Mar 09
I don't like having to do it, and try not to. Some days I just have no options though. I really didn't want to make him leave work yesterday, which is why I didn't call him first. But once I had him on the phone, I realized how much I needed his help.
@gemini_rose (16264)
•
15 Mar 09
I am glad to hear that you are ok now. I have had to call my hubby home a few times mostly for the children but the one time I had to call him home for myself was when I was pregnant with my daughter and at 30 weeks went into labour so I had to phone him to get him home to come and take me to the hospital. Luckily I got there in time for them to be able to stop labour commencing.
@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
14 Mar 09
I've had him help out when one of the children was ill. And he went to a few appointments with me when I was pregnant. Other than that, nope. Hope I never need to but he would come if I called.
@momtrying2makeit (3270)
• United States
14 Mar 09
I have not been feeling myself latey either. I know in these hard times every penny counts but if you are ill and need help than to me that is more imporant than a few bucks or a few missed hours at work. I think if I was not feeling well my boyfriend would do the same for me and I am glad that your husband cares this much for you. There are some men that do not give a crap and would say stop crying about it.
Remember this when he is sick that way you can be there for him too. Also I would consider finding another doctor too I mean misdiagonosed twice is way too much. Good luck and I hope you feel better soon. I am sending happy vibes to you. 
@katsmeow1213 (28716)
• United States
14 Mar 09
I was only misdiagnosed once, which is understandable because although the pain started a week ago, the remaining symptoms didn't begin showing up until Thursday night. It is something I've been through before, and honestly should have known what it was, but I haven't had an episode in a few years, so I'd forgotten all about it!
@myberg2 (12)
• United States
17 Mar 09
My husband is a truck driver so calling home early is not an option but I have asked him to stay home. I have arthritis and bone spurs in my neck and hips. I can handle the hip pain but I get pretty severe migrains because of my neck. My husbands great, he has stayed home with me on several occasions
@ncmom0f3 (60)
• United States
14 Mar 09
wow I'm so sorry you had to go through all of that! I'm glad the dr finally figured out what was wrong and hopefully the new meds will help! To answer your question yes I've had to call my fiance home quite a few times due to me being sick, lights being cut off, and one time my son poured fingernale polish remover on my work desk (which happened to be the only thing I had of my fathers) and it ate the top off completely! I called my fiance and told him he needed to come get our son and take him to the park b/c I had had it! That was years ago though and now I have three running around driving me insane lol
@katsmeow1213 (28716)
• United States
14 Mar 09
I have 5 kids, and yes I've had days where I want to call him home because I can't handle them anymore! Sometimes I'll call him so he can yell at them over the phone and tell them to behave. But most days, so long as I'm feeling myself, I'll just put them to bed early instead of calling him home if it gets to a point where I can't handle them anymore.
