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I have flu and I want to cancel Christmas

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Wyllow3 Thu 11-Dec-25 19:40:28

Tell the truth to everyone.

Trust that your family can sort out what's needed., and that the very worst than could happen is "the two of us, having a cosy recovery day"

You dont have to force yourselves to go through it xxx

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AGAA4 Thu 11-Dec-25 19:39:48

As neither of you are well just explain that you aren't up to entertaining this year.
For so many people there will be a lot of preparation. You need to look after yourselves before others when you a ill.

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KatyaStrings Thu 11-Dec-25 19:30:46

My family always come to ours - there are usually 13 or 14 of us and my house is tiny.

My one daughter lives too far away for us all to go to hers. Another one has a husband and two children in an even smaller house. Our other 4 adult children all live in flats.

Everyone loves coming to ours but we don't get much help and to be perfectly honest it's bit much for me on a good year as I'm not in the best of health. But my husband does help a lot.

So now both of us have the flu and I'm thinking of cancelling the usual arrangement. I know my husband will say 'don't you worry, I'll do everything'. But he's said that before and tbh he forgets half of it. Plus he has been affected even worse than me by this damn virus.

I'm breaking into a cold sweat just thinking about everything there is to do.

I just want a year off.

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