Am I being unreasonable?

Ok so I’m not feeling too good at the moment so this could be me being petty…
I have what is either the stomach flu or the general flu. My body aches, I have zero energy & I’ve been sick.
Luckily my mum had my 2 kids yesterday after school & today too on an inset day because, she could see how bad I was. She’s given them dinner, brought them home before bed time so I’m not struggling on my own.
My husband has seen me crying in pain, on the bathroom floor throwing up. I was up twice in the night with the kids and up at 5am with one of them, he slept right through even when I nudged him for help. When asked he made them some packed lunches for today, and when I asked him to help them get ready this morning he said “I’m exhausted”. The audacity to ask what I had made for dinner last night when I couldn’t get off the sofa so I bought him dinner. He left work at about 7:30 this morning & despite leaving me in bed crying in pain he hasn’t text to see how the kids are at my mums or how I am & won’t make any effort to help out with the kids knowing full well how ill I am. It would take less than a minute to send a text.
Am I right to be annoyed and upset? Am I just being silly?

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You've got all right to be annoyed. You're supposed to be a team! The other way around you would be there for him too. You should communicate this without blaming. Just share how you feel. Hope you feel better soon!

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I'd be super direct with my husband. When the alarm went off I'd say "I was up sick all night and need to stay in bed. I need you to cover. XYZ are the kids commitments today". If he needed to take a day off to do so, that's what sick/vacation days are for.

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No you’re not being silly, it’s not the least bit unreasonable to assume that your partner would be capable of taking care of the family & home while you’re unable to do so, it’s kinda common sense that the more you can rest & rehab the quicker it’s gonna get back to both adults running things together. My hubs would be absolutely livid if I were sick & he & the kids hadn’t caught it & I was running around contaminating the entire household & packing their lunches for school, potentially spreading that virus to our child’s classmates & putting this on even more households. He’d tell me to quarantine myself in our room & proceed to keep the kids as far away as possible, then come in to check on me, talk me into eating & drinking fluids periodically & spray everything down w/our alcohol spray, just like I do when he’s sick, this way we can possibly manage to keep the viral load down as much as possible, so, if/when they do get sick it might not be as severe.

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