Need help and sick with the flu?

Isaac has had a headache since yesterday night. That is when he informed me. Knowing him, he rarely tells me when he has a headache, so he could have had one all day and I would never have known. I've also noticed since I've started my new job that he seems to have a yucky type cough, which again, he rarely coughs even with a cough.
He isn't the 'I'm a tough guy' type person that makes it know to everyone around them that they are in pain and are going to rough it. Nope, he just doesn't tell me.
Which that sounds a little too familiar in regards to myself. When I was little I never told my mom that I was hungry, thirsty yes, hungry no. She would sometimes give me juice until one day she made me drink water. Yuck, Norman water taste like pond scum!! We argued about the taste of it water she said "water doesn't have a taste" I said "then whey does this water taste like NASTY DIRT" and she would repeat herself. It still tastes like pond scum to this day and I don't drink tap water of any kind.

When I was a baby I would tell her I was thirsty all the time. Only juice for me of course
Anyway, so other things I never thought of telling people, that I need any help (unless I had a question that didn't need a physical answer). Just never occurred to me to ask.

So, now there is the question of Self Reliance and the sin of Self Reliance. It seems that some people are just born like that and it's hereditary. Never occurs to them to Ask for help or to play "tough guy". The "tough guys" do it intentionally and people like me and Isaac don't. Maybe we were just born with a knowing that people are not as willing as they say they are and if I am able then I should do.

Could be that in my doing the opposite of my mother, that I anticipated and understood my sons baby talk to such an extent that he never had much of a need to tell me when he wasn't feeling good. He had me whenever he wanted. He could nurse, he could cuddle, and I would carry him around the house all day long.
In my case, I had no one. My mother worked when I was only a couple months old. I was always being babysat and a lot of times from people that were not even family. She said I would come home with bruises from the sitters. I never had any one to turn to, no comforter except for my golden blanket and my bottle. Thats it. My blanket, my bottle, and my two middle fingers.
My son NEVER formed attachments to Things. No Nuk for him, no blanket, bottle, or toy took my place. People would give him stuffed toys all the time, people we didn't even know!! An ambulance driver gave him a huge stuffed turtle, our kinder bus driver gave him an animal, someone at a store, etc. This was all in Germany. People thought he was adorable and so sweet and it got him lots of candy and toys! Americans don't seem to do this much at all...

Well, I need to get ready for work and get my poor boy some food. He was invited to see a movie with some friends and I hope he doesn't get sick in the middle of it :(