How to help my stubborn roommate with crohns flare?
I’m pretty sure my roommate is currently going through a crohns flare, how do I help them?
They have 2 dogs (a sr and a puppy), and have been setting alarms for every 4 hours to take them outside. Normally they’re really attentive with them, and spend an hour a day playing with them, but the past week they’ve been only playing with the dogs for about 10-20 minutes when they get home. I’ll hear their alarm, and it sounds like a drunk toddler making their way downstairs. I offer to take the dogs out, but they ‘don’t want to be a bother’, even though I assured they wouldn’t be. I’d just take them out, but the dogs follow them around like their shadow. It’s been worse the past week, I think the dogs can also tell my roommate is sick.
They haven’t been eating much of anything because it hurts their stomach. I tried buying their fav smoothie from down the road, mixed berry with protein powder, but they just half smiled at me, took a sip, and quietly waited for me to leave. I don’t think they drank more than that sip :T
They work 10 hour night shifts 4-6 days a week, and they’re still going to work, even though they are clearly in a lot of pain. They tried calling out to go to thr ER, but their boss threatened to fire them if they did so, doctors excuse or not. They seem so exhausted. They’re usually the one who sweeps/mops, vacuum/ shampoos the carpets, but they haven’t done that in two weeks now (they’re very particular about how it gets done. Last time they were sick like this and heard me start their unofficial chores, they got up and took over, I’m trying to avoid a repeat of that. Dw I at the very least swept)
The amount of Tylenol they’ve been consuming has become alarming, something about not being able to have ibuprofen? I’ve been keeping their cold packs cycled, so they’ve always got a fresh, cold one. They said in the past they don’t help pain, but the cold felt nice.
What can I do to help?? I take care of their dogs while they’re at work, but I can’t really do that when they’re home bc they sleep with them, and my roommate heavily values their privacy. If the dogs whine at their door I let them out, but that’s it. I’d do their unofficial chores but if the catch me doing them they’ll get up and do them instead (it’s a whole thing, I think they have OCD??). If they think I’m trying to help then they get weirdly stubborn about their health and taking care of themselves as to prove some sort of point to themself