Sick?

'being cheerful helps when we are sick' Proverbs 18:14

Many women who go through labor have little sympathy when their menfolk complain of minor ailments. As my wife is a nurse, this lack of sympathy is only exacerbated as she is used to seeing serious illness on a daily basis. Sometimes it feels like I would need to be dead three days before she would even think of calling a doctor... and if you think I am exaggerating, let me say that when the time came for her to have our baby, she was so concerned about not troubling the hospital too early beforehand, in the end my daughter was born less than ten minutes after we arrived at the maternity ward by emergency ambulance... indeed she was nearly born IN the ambulance.