TL/DR: MIL birthday shenanigans
I posted a couple weeks ago about my MIL pouting that no one in her family was coming to my daughter’s birthday, it was not that important or exciting so I don’t expect anyone to remember lol! That being said though, the antics were pretty antic-y and I thought someone might find them amusing, so here is an update:
So going back to the beginning of late spring/early summer, my MIL hurt her back somehow, it’s been long enough and enough time has gone by that I don’t remember the full details. She has been desperate to find a fix, but not enough to actually do the work to fix it. She wants a one time fix that makes the problem magically better in 30 seconds kind of a thing, not a pill pushing kind of a thing. So she’s been to two chiropractors and two different doctors who all have pretty much the same treatment plan, but it’s not fast enough to her liking. In the meantime she’s been in a lot of pain but clearly not enough pain to actually DO what the doctors and chiropractors have been telling her to do.
Doctor #2 or 3 (I’ve lost track honestly) said he would need to do an MRI of her spine to see what he’s working with before coming up with a treatment plan or prescribing her any sort of pain killer or muscle relaxers. She went in earlier last week to get it done but it was too claustrophobic for her to deal with and she had to nope out after 10 mins, according to her. The lady who was doing her MRI said my MIL would have to get a prescription for a sedative so she could take the pill an hour before the MRI, it would take effect in that time, and they could do the procedure again. The only caveat was that she had to have someone take her to the appointment because she wouldn’t be in a state to drive before and afterwards because the effects of the sedative would last 6-8 hours. I was honestly expecting her to ask me to take her and she did not, which was a pleasant surprise lol! BUT:
She scheduled the MRI for the morning of my daughter’s birthday party. I honestly thought she was pranking me and asked her if she was serious. She said she was serious. I asked her what MRI place schedules MRIs during the weekend, and she said she was doing it at our local hospital, so they always had one running. To be honest, I thought she was lying to get out of coming to the party because I’ve never heard of that before. I did not answer the nicest way I probably should have or normally would because I was pissed and it was a phone conversation so I couldn’t take a beat and answer later when I wasn’t angry and said “MIL, you are retired. You literally couldn’t pick any other day of the week to get an MRI other than my daughter’a birthday party?” She had no answer to that. Mind you, she was also supposed to bring something by for the party. She said the appointment was at 7:30 am (WTF Sunday morning MRI that early in the morning?), she would take the sedative at 6:30 am, and then she would have my FIL drive them to the party after her scan was over and she had a nap. The party was at 11 am today. I asked her how she was going to be able to manage to pull that off when that was still within the window of the sedative effects and she claimed she was going into a store and she was going into a store and had to go and hung up. We all know what that means š
To her credit, they did show up and she was pretty lucid. She did however combine whatever sedative she was on with a mimosa and got pretty loopy and had to leave early. She didn’t say goodbye to me and I honestly didn’t know she left, I’m sure she thought she was punishing me but you have to care what someone thinks of you to be offended by their actions and I am long past that so adios āš»
MILs, am I right???